19 Apr 2011Research in six different communities in Johannesburg and Cape Town shows a troubling disregard on the part of some public health professionals and workers towards the law and their ethical ...

14 Mar 2011Idasa's Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) has been approached by the South African Department of Home Affairs for assistance in the process of rethinking that country’s migration policy. This suggests ...

14 Jul 2010Migrant remittances are Lesotho's major source of foreign exchange, accounting for 25% of GDP in 2006. Since 1990, patterns of migration from Lesotho to South Africa have changed dramatically. These ...

29 Oct 2009The movement of persons from one country to another and indeed, from under-resourced areas to better-resourced area within a particular country is not a new phenomenon. It is something that ...

27 Jul 2009Idasa’s SAMP was in Bangkok in early June for a meeting that brought together people from major regional consultative processes on Migration throughout the world to share experiences and exchange ...

02 Jul 2009Zimbabweans have been battered by the collapsed economy and have limited access to forex. The Solidarity Peace Trust interviewed families in five rural districts and found that migration has soared ...

27 Jun 2009Idasa’s SAMP co-hosted a workshop on “Promoting Health and Development: Migration Health in Southern Africa” in June in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and ...

25 Jun 2009Remittances are an essential part of household budgets and the national economy of Zimbabwe. In recent years, remittance flows have increased due to the growing number of Zimbabwean migrants who ...

24 Nov 2008Welcome to the second edition of Migration & Social Cohesion In the first edition, we focused on the concept of integration and identified the key factors and issues that need ...

26 Sep 2008Migrant remittances have become an important source of income for many developing countries, exceeding official development assistance. As a result, migration and remittance behaviour are becoming a growing focus of ...

18 Aug 2008The project on Migration and Social Cohesion is funded by the Heinrich Boell Stiftung and is being implemented by Idasa as the South African partner of the Southern African Migration ...

18 Jul 2008This edition of ePoliticsSA was compiled by Kate Lefko-Everett. This edition of ePolitics provides an overview of migration and refugee policy since 1994, which has only in recent years shifted ...

16 Jul 2008The world recently watched with dismay as South African citizens violently attacked foreign nationals in communities across the country. Tens of thousands of migrants were displaced, amid mass looting and ...

30 May 2008For Immediate Release Democracy institute Idasa has conducted an urgent survey among graduates of its leadership training and capacity-building programmes into the causes of the recent wave of xenophobic attacks ...

28 May 2008As we write these words, hundreds of fellow Africans, most of whom fled political persecution from their own countries to seek safety in a democratic South Africa, are gathered in ...

27 May 2008Do you want to help?  Click on this link for information about how to help  - TAC Help Refugees  The City of Cape Town has also sent out information about How To ...

22 May 2008Namibia, like many other countries in the SADC region, is experiencing a major shift in internal and international migration patterns to and from the country.The management of these movements is ...

20 May 2008Idasa adds its voice to those of others and unreservedly condemns the wave of xenophobic violence  sweeping through the townships in the Gauteng province. These attacks have forcefully brought to ...

25 Feb 2008This 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 ...

15 Dec 2007The paper is organized into five sections. Section Two positions debates about the migration of skilled health professionals within a wider literatur e that discusses the international mobility of talent. ...

15 Dec 2007This publication, as well as drawing conclusions from women’s descriptions of their experiences as migrants, also provides a forum for the voices of women themselves to be heard. Providing a ...

10 Sep 2007Kate Lefko-Everett Last week, Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nkaqula was reported as having acknowledged the need for new strategies to cope with the numbers of irregular migrants – and ...

15 Dec 2006This paper under takes an inter-regional analysis of the South, Centre and North of Mozambique, demonstrating clear developmental differences attributed to many years of r emittances channeled to the mainly ...

15 Dec 2006SAMP partners led research teams in the five countries using the same questionnaire. Households were randomly selected and were included in the survey only if they had cross-border migrant or ...

30 Jan 2006By Kate Lefko-Everett   Migration is and will continue to be a reality globally and in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Harmonisation of migration policies could lead to significant advantages in terms of ...

15 Dec 2005Zimbabwe is faced with a growing problem of the emigration of its skilled labour. Health professionals in particular are migrating in search of greener pastures outside the country’s borders. This ...

15 Dec 2005SAMP has conducted extensive research on the magnitude and impact of the brain drain from South Africa and several other SADC countries. One prominent ANC Minister reviewed the SAMP evidence ...

15 Dec 2005Since the end of apartheid, young South Africans can look beyond the country’s borders to find employment. Yet while greater opportunities and a wider range of choice may be good ...

15 Dec 2005Xenophobia is a distinctive and widespread phenomenon in South and Southern Africa. The print media, in particular, has been accused of exacerbating xenophobic attitudes. This paper discusses press coverage of ...

15 Dec 2005This study was conducted at the Oshikango border post and its surrounding area in October 2003. Official data on border crossings was supplemented by an Origin and Destination (O&D) Survey. ...

15 Dec 2005Zimbabwe is experiencing a crippling flight of professional and skilled people that has escalated to levels that have serious implications for economic growth and development. Previous studies have discovered extremely ...

15 Dec 2005This study examines the migrant and health experiences of domestic workers in Johannesburg, as well as some of their points of vulnerability to HIV. In 2004, domestic work was the ...

21 Nov 2005This paper examines reported incidents of human rights abuses and violence directed towards foreigners where government employees have been the perpetrators. We discuss both direct human rights abuses and incidents ...

21 Oct 2005In a context of migration and continued social fragmentation, governing for sustainable livelihoods means overcoming divisions by promoting a sense of a shared future and common rules of economic and ...

08 Apr 2005Press Statement - Coalition comprising the South African Council of Churches, the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, SANGOCO, Idasa, the Centre for Policy Studies and the Institute for Justice and ...

15 Feb 2005By Wade Pendleton and Jonathan Crush   The loss of professionals and other skilled people from the SADC region is fast assuming the dimensions of a major crisis.  The countries of ...

15 Jan 2005This publication presents the results of SAMP’s 2003 Potential Skills Base survey (PSBS) in four SADC countries. The PSBS was also implemented in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The survey results ...

15 Dec 2004The negative attitudes of South Africans towards non-citizens, migrants and refugees have been documented in several recent studies. Xenophobia has been officially recognized as a major problem by the state ...

15 Dec 2004In general, SAMP and its partners trust that the results of the surveys reported here will help government and civil society in Swaziland to construct the knowledge base about migration ...

27 May 2004Hosted by the SAHRC - SA Human Rights Commission and the SA Parliamentary Portfolio Comittee on Foreign Affairs The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs (Portfolio Committee) together with the ...