Contemporary Migration to South Africa : A Regional Development Issue
This book is a call to rethink migration regimes in Southern Africa in ways that are more explicitly developmental and focused on poverty. Current policy debates are devoted almost exclusively to border control and policing; they pay only lip servi...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank
2012
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| Summary: | This book is a call to rethink migration
regimes in Southern Africa in ways that are more explicitly
developmental and focused on poverty. Current policy debates
are devoted almost exclusively to border control and
policing; they pay only lip service to local and regional
developmental strategies. This volume takes a different
approach. Its contributors are scholars who are convinced
that empirically based policy making stands a better chance
of succeeding than untested preconceptions that risk
reproducing recipes that have failed elsewhere. The book is
therefore strong on empirics, providing a wealth of original
data. It also reframes existing approaches and reexamines
secondary data from fresh perspectives. Although the focus
remains South Africa, the book reflects South Africa's
regional role and draws on data from across the Southern
African Development Community (SADC). This book broadens the
'migration' agenda beyond the boundaries of
migration studies and migration policy silos. This book is
intended to become a resource for a range of audiences in
Southern Africa and the continent. |
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