Africa

Shifting the focus of migration back home: Perspectives from Southern Africa.

Primary Author(s): 
Landau, Loren B.; Vigneswaran, Darshan
Primary Institution: 
African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand
Development (2007) 50, 82–87.
English

 Loren B. Landau and Darshan Vigneswaran raise three fundamental critiques about how contemporary migration and development debates are likely to affect sub-Saharan Africa. They suggest that the focus should shift from movements out of Africa to migration, displacement and urbanization within the continent in order to take into account the negative effects of migration on families, conflict and political accountability.

Date Released: 
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http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v50/n4/abs/1100435a.html
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