Circular Migration In Zimbabwe Contemporary Sub Saharan Africa

Author : Deborah Helen Potts
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847010230

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Circular Migration in Zimbabwe & Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa by Deborah Helen Potts Pdf

The World Bank insists that the urban share of sub-Saharan Africa's population is rapidly increasing - this study shows that in many countries this is no longer true as migration strategies have adapted in response to economic andpolitical change. Circular migration, whereby rural migrants do not remain permanently in town, has particular significance in the academic literature on development and urbanization in Africa, often having negative connotations in southern Africanist studies due to its links with an iniquitous migrant labour system. Literature on other African regions often views circular migration more positively. This book reviews the current evidence about circular migration and urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa. The author challenges the dominant view that rural-urban migration continues unabated and shows that circular migration has continued and has adapted, with faster out-migration in the face of decliningurban economic opportunities. The empirical core of the book illustrates these trends through a detailed examination of the case of Zimbabwe based on the author's longstanding research on Harare. The political and economic changes in Zimbabwe since the 1980s transformed Harare from one of the best African cities to live in over this period to one of the worst. Harare citizens' livelihoods exemplify, in microcosm, the central theme of the book: the re-invention of circulation and rural-urban links in response to economic change. Deborah Potts is a Senior Lecturer in the Geography Department of King's College London. She works in the broad research field of urbanization and migration in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly southern Africa and has conducted research on these themes in Harare in Zimbabwe since 1985. Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia) and Zimbabwe: University of Cape Town Press (PB)

Author : Deborah Potts
Publisher : James Currey (GB)
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1846159164

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Circular Migration in Zimbabwe & Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa by Deborah Potts Pdf

The World Bank insists that the urban share of sub-Saharan Africa's population is rapidly increasing - this study shows that in many countries this is no longer true as migration strategies have adapted in response to economic and political change.

Author : Deborah Helen Potts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Harare (Zimbabwe)
ISBN : 1919895973

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Circular Migration in Zimbabwe and Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa by Deborah Helen Potts Pdf

Author : Daniel Makina,Dominic Pasura
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000927641

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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Migration by Daniel Makina,Dominic Pasura Pdf

This handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration. It endeavours to present a single source of reference on issues such as migration history, trends, migrant profiles, narratives, migration-development nexus, migration governance, diasporas, impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, among others. The handbook assembles a multidisciplinary contributor team of distinguished and upcoming Africanist scholars, practitioners, researchers, and policy experts both inside and outside Africa to contribute their perspectives on contemporary African migration. It attempts to address some of the following pertinent questions: What drives contemporary migration in Africa? How are its patterns and trends evolving? What is the architecture of migration governance in Africa? How do migration, diaspora engagement and development play out in Africa? What are the future trajectories of African migration? The handbook is a valuable resource for practitioners, politicians, researchers, university students, and academics interested in studying and understanding contemporary African migration.

Author : Aderanti Adepoju,Ton van Naerssen,Annelies Zoomers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047432135

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International Migration and National Development in sub-Saharan Africa by Aderanti Adepoju,Ton van Naerssen,Annelies Zoomers Pdf

This book focuses on achieving a better understanding of the implications of international migration for national development from the perspective of the sending countries (with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa). More specifically, the purpose of this volume is to explore (1) current perceptions - as seen from the perspective of the countries of origin - of the links between international migration and national development, and (2) current trends in policy making aimed at minimising the negative effects, while optimising the development impact.

Author : Aderanti Adepoju
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000115609764

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Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa by Aderanti Adepoju Pdf

Africans arriving by rickety fishing boats to the Canary Islands is an example of the dark side of migration in human trafficking, but the picture of a continent on the move also includes highly skilled professionals from Nigeria and Ghana who seek employment in universities and other professions in South Africa. On the positive side, migrant remittances are a major source of income in many sub-Saharan African countries, helping to sustain the lives of poor home communities. A major challenge now facing sub-Saharan Africa is how to attract

Author : Malte Steinbrink,Hannah Niedenführ
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030228415

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Africa on the Move by Malte Steinbrink,Hannah Niedenführ Pdf

This book discusses migration and space-spanning social network relationships as normal realities of life in African societies. It offers an overview of the research landscape and introduces an agency-centered theoretical model that provides a conceptual framework for translocality. The authors Malte Steinbrink and Hannah Niedenführ plead for a translocal approach to social transformation, showing how the translocality of livelihoods is shaping the lives of half a billion people on the continent and impacting local conditions. Using an action-oriented approach, the book analyzes the effects of translocal livelihoods on diverse aspects of economic, environmental and social change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. The study thus makes an innovative contribution not only to migration research and development studies but also to the discussion around the policy and practice of development cooperation and planning. It is time to rethink development in light of translocal realities. The book appeals to scholars and researchers in geography, sociology, policy-making and planning, development studies, migration research and rural development.

Author : Crush, Jonathan
Publisher : Southern African Migration Programme
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920409784

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Migration, Development and Urban Food Security by Crush, Jonathan Pdf

Over the last decade, two issues have risen to the top of the international development agenda: Food Security & Migration and Development. Each has its own agency champions, international gatherings, national line ministries and voluminous bodies of research. There is thus a massive institutional and substantive disconnect between these two development agendas. The reasons are hard to understand since the connections between migration and food security seem so obvious. Food security needs to be “mainstreamed” into the migration and development agenda and migration needs to be “mainstreamed” into the food security agenda. Without this happening, both agendas will proceed in ignorance of the other to the detriment of both. The result will be a singular failure to understand, and manage, the crucial reciprocal relationship between migration and food security. This paper aims to promote a conversation between food security and migration experts and policy-makers with particular reference to the crisis of urban food security in Africa. The empirical basis of the conversation is an AFSUN survey in 2008 and its findings on the differences between migrant and non-migrant households in 11 cities in Southern Africa.

Author : Crush, Jonathan,Caesar, Mary
Publisher : Southern African Migration Programme
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920596194

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Food Remittances: Migration and Food Security in Africa by Crush, Jonathan,Caesar, Mary Pdf

There is considerable evidence from across the African continent that a significant proportion of cash remittances to rural areas is spent on food. However, bidirectional food remitting – its drivers, dimensions and impacts – is an underdeveloped research and policy area. This report therefore reviews the current state of knowledge about food remittances in Africa and aims to make a number of contributions to the study of the relationship between migration and food security.

Author : Tom De Herdt,Jean-Pierre OLIVIER de SARDAN
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317527732

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Real Governance and Practical Norms in Sub-Saharan Africa by Tom De Herdt,Jean-Pierre OLIVIER de SARDAN Pdf

Although international development discourse considers the state as a crucial development actor, there remains a significant discrepancy between the official norms of the state and public services and the actual practices of political elites and civil servants. This text interrogates the variety of ways in which state policies and legal norms have been translated into the set of practical norms which make up real governance in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that the concept of practical norms is an appropriate tool for an ethnographic investigation of public bureaucracies, interactions between civil servants and users, and the daily functioning of the state in Africa. It demonstrates that practical norms are usually different from official norms, complementing, bypassing and even contradicting them. In addition, it explores the positive and negative effects of different aspects of this ‘real governance’. This text will be of key interest to academics, students and researchers in the fields of development, political science, anthropology and development studies, African studies, international comparative studies, implementation studies, and public policy.

Author : Michael J. White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401772822

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International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution by Michael J. White Pdf

This Handbook offers a comprehensive collection of essays that cover essential features of geographical mobility, from internal migration, to international migration, to urbanization, to the adaptation of migrants in their destinations. Part I of the collection introduces the range of theoretical perspectives offered by several social science disciplines, while also examining the crucial relationship between internal and international migration. Part II takes up methods, ranging from how migration data are best collected to contemporary techniques for analyzing such data. Part III of the handbook contains summaries of present trends across all world regions. Part IV rounds out the volume with several contributions assessing pressing issues in contemporary policy areas. The volume’s editor Michael J. White has spent a career studying the pattern and process of internal and international migration, urbanization and population distribution in a wide variety of settings, from developing societies to advanced economies. In this Handbook he brings together contributors from all parts of the world, gathering in this one volume both geographical and substantive expertise of the first rank. The Handbook will be a key reference source for established scholars, as well as an invaluable high-level introduction to the most relevant topics in the field for emerging scholars.

Author : Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha,Nene Ernest Khalema,Lovemore Chipungu,Tamuka C. Chirimambowa,Tinashe Lukas Chimedza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319592350

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Crisis, Identity and Migration in Post-Colonial Southern Africa by Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha,Nene Ernest Khalema,Lovemore Chipungu,Tamuka C. Chirimambowa,Tinashe Lukas Chimedza Pdf

This book offers a socio-historical analysis of migration and the possibilities of regional integration in Southern Africa. It examines both the historical roots of and contemporary challenges regarding the social, economic, and geo-political causes of migration and its consequences (i.e. xenophobia) to illustrate how ‘diaspora’ migrations have shaped a sense of identity, citizenry, and belonging in the region. By discussing immigration policies and processes and highlighting how the struggle for belonging is mediated by new pressures concerning economic security, social inequality, and globalist challenges, the book develops policy responses to the challenge of social and economic exclusion, as well as xenophobic violence, in Southern Africa. This timely and highly informative book will appeal to all scholars, activists, and policy-makers looking to revisit migration policies and realign them with current globalization and regional integration trends.

Author : Maria C Marchetti-Mercer,Leslie Swartz,Loretta Baldassar,Thembelihle Coka,Glory Kabaghe,Sonto Madonsela,Lactricia Maja,Risuna Mathebula,Siko Moyo,Esther Price,Daniella Rafaely,Ajwang’ Warria
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781776148646

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Transnational Families in Africa by Maria C Marchetti-Mercer,Leslie Swartz,Loretta Baldassar,Thembelihle Coka,Glory Kabaghe,Sonto Madonsela,Lactricia Maja,Risuna Mathebula,Siko Moyo,Esther Price,Daniella Rafaely,Ajwang’ Warria Pdf

Explores the experiences of transnational migrant families from Africa, including flows into and out of South Africa, and how technology is used to maintain kinship and duties of care from afar.

Author : Paolo Boccagni
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800882775

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Handbook on Home and Migration by Paolo Boccagni Pdf

This dynamic Handbook unpacks the entanglements between the two notions of home and migration, which illuminate the lived experiences of (in)voluntary mobilities and the contested terrain of inclusion and belonging. Drawing on cross-disciplinary contributions from leading international scholars, it advances research on the social study of home in relation to migration, refugee, displacement, and diaspora studies. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Abraham R. Matamanda,James Chakwizira,Kudzai Chatiza,Verna Nel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031498572

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Secondary Cities and Local Governance in Southern Africa by Abraham R. Matamanda,James Chakwizira,Kudzai Chatiza,Verna Nel Pdf

This book is the first to consider the roles, challenges and governance responses of secondary cities in southern Africa to changing circumstances. Among the challenges are governance under conditions of resource scarcity, managing informality, the effects and responses to climate change and the changing roles of the cities within the national space economy. It fills the gap in the literature on secondary cities with original case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The authors are all African scholars, working and living in the region with intimate knowledge of the settings they describe. The book is critical as it includes such regional case studies of different secondary cities in Southern Africa but also because of it’s multidisciplinarity: it contains substantive and pertinent issues such as climate change, disaster management, local economic development, and basic services delivery. It considers diverse environments, yet with similar challenges that could provide useful policy and governance proposals for other cities.