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  • Rethinking the Medical Brain Drain Narrative
    Jonathan Crush
    Concerns about the negative impact of the 'brain drain' of health professionals from Africa have led to a dominant narrative in which those who migrate are a permanent, and costly, loss to the country of origin and a permanent, and valuable, gain for the country of destination. In the new world of transnationalism, a global skills market, and greatly increased mobility by healt...
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    38,34 €

  • Rendering South Africa Undesirable
    Caroline Skinner / Jonathan Crush / Manal Stulgaitis
    To understand the policy environment within which refugees establish and operate their enterprises in South Africa’s informal sector, this report brings together two streams of policy analysis. The first concerns the changing refugee policies and the erosion of the progressive approach that characterized the immediate post-apartheid period. The second concerns the informal sect...
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    38,41 €

  • Comparing Refugees and South Africans in the Urban Informal Sector
    Cameron McCordic / Godfrey Tawodzera / Jonathan Crush
    This report compares the business operations of over 2,000 South Africans and refugees in the urban informal economy and systematically dispels some of the myths that have grown up around their activities. First, the report takes issue with the perception that South Africans are inexperienced and unmotivated participants in the informal economy. Many have years of experience an...
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    37,36 €

  • Living With Xenophobia
    Abel Chikanda / Godfrey Tawodzera / Jonathan Crush
    This report examines the impact of xenophobic violence on Zimbabweans who are trying to make a living in the South African informal sector and finds that xenophobic violence has several key characteristics that put them at constant risk of losing their livelihoods and their lives. The businesses run by migrants and refugees in the informal sector are a major target of South Afr...
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    33,04 €

  • Informal Migrant Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique
    Caroline Skinner / Jonathan Crush
    While increasing attention is being paid to the drivers and forms of entrepreneurship in informal economies, much less of this policy and research focus is directed at understanding the links between mobility and informality. This report examines the current state of knowledge about this relationship with particular reference to three countries (Mozambique, South Africa and Zim...
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    41,70 €

  • The State of Food Insecurity in Msunduzi Municipality, South Africa
    Jonathan Crush / Mary Caesar / Trevor Hill
    There is plenty of food in Msunduzi, in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, but the urban poor regularly go hungry. This study of Msunduzi’s food security situation formed part of AFSUN’s baseline survey of eleven Southern African cities. The survey results show that the urban poor in Msunduzi are significantly worse off than their counterparts in Cape Town and Johannesburg....
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    38,11 €

  • Migration-Induced HIV and AIDS in Rural Mozambique and Swaziland
    Jonathan Crush
    South Africa’s gold mining workforce has the highest prevalence rates of tuberculosis and HIV infection of any industrial sector in the country. The contract migrant labour system, which has long outlived apartheid, is responsible for this unacceptable situation. The spread of HIV to rural communities in Southern Africa is not well understood. The accepted wisdom is that migran...
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    45,06 €

  • Haemorrhage of Health Professionals Fro
    Jonathan Crush / Kate Lefko-Everett / Wade Pendleton
    This paper reports the results of a survey of health professionals in South Africa conducted in 2005-6 by SAMP. Since there is no single reliable database for all practicing health professionals, SAMP used the 29,000 strong database of MEDpages. All those on the list were invited by email to complete an online survey. About 5% of the professionals went to the website and comple...
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    37,38 €

  • Linking Migration, HIV/AIDS and Urban F
    Bruce Frayne / Jonathan Crush / Miriam Grant
    The Southern African Migration Project is a collaborative project and this paper is published jointly by IDASA in Cape Town and Queen’s University, Canada. It seeks to establish a background for understanding the complex and dynamic linkages between urbanisation, migration, HIV/Aids and urban food security in Southern and Eastern Africa. It documents the key dimensions of the c...
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    45,48 €

  • Brain Drain of Health Professionals Fro
    Jonathan Crush
    One of the critical challenges facing Africa is how to harness the potential of internal and international migration in the interests of development. The Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) is an international network of organizations founded in 1996 to promote awareness of migration-development linkages in SADC. SAMP conducts applied research on migration and development...
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    41,91 €

  • Power of Development
    Jonathan Crush
    Development histories reveal a legacy of contested power. These essays explore the language of development and its meaning within different political contexts, drawing material from Africa, Asia and Latin America by way of comparison. ...
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    106,62 €