Mixed Migration, Forced Displacement and Job Outcomes in South Africa
Southern Africa has a long history of human mobility centered around the migration of labor to farms and mines in the region. Patterns of migration and displacement have since been transformed by the end of Apartheid, changing economic systems, and...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/247261530129173904/main-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30158 |
| Summary: | Southern Africa has a long history of
human mobility centered around the migration of labor to
farms and mines in the region. Patterns of migration and
displacement have since been transformed by the end of
Apartheid, changing economic systems, and conflict and
political instability, both in the region and elsewhere.
Today mobility in the region is motivated by a combination
of diverse social, political and economic reasons; shaped by
long-standing historical movements and re-shaped by newer
patterns of urbanization and displacement; organized through
various legal and extra-legal means and governed by
fragmented and contradictory legal frameworks. These complex
patterns of migration and displacement, state responses to
them, and the implications of mobility for job outcomes in
South Africa - as the major destination country in the
region - are the subject matter of this study. Our
quantitative analysis on the impact of immigration on local
jobs in South Africa finds that one immigrant worker
generates approximately two jobs for South Africans during
the period analyzed (1996 and 2011). These results and the
substantiations provided in this publication are significant
for policy makers and development actors in South Africa and
the wider region, and as such, their implications should be
seriously considered. |
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