Migration, Remittances and Development in Lesotho
1st Edition
Published on 17. July 2010
98 pages
978-1-920409-42-5 (ISBN)
Description
The relationship between migration, development and remittances in Lesotho has been exhaustively studied for the period up to 1990. This was an era when the vast majority of migrants from Lesotho were young men working on the South African gold mines and over 50 percent of households had a migrant mineworker. Since 1990, patterns of migration to South Africa have changed dramatically. The reconfiguration of migration between the two countries has had a marked impact on remittance flows to Lesotho. The central question addressed in this report is how the change in patterns of migration from and within Lesotho since 1990 has impacted on remittance flows and usage.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- CONTENTS
- TABLES
- FIGURES
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- INTRODUCTION
- METHODOLOGY
- PAST MIGRATIONS
- CHANGING PATTERNS OF MIGRATION SINCE 1990
- INCREASED CROSS-BORDER MOVEMENT
- DECLINING MINE MIGRATION
- FEMINIZATION OF MIGRATION
- EXPANSION OF INTERNAL FEMALE MIGRATION
- BRAIN DRAIN TO SOUTH AFRICA
- HIV/AIDS AND MIGRATION
- MIGRANT DESTINATIONS
- PURPOSE OF JOURNEY
- SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINES
- COMMERCIAL FARMS
- DOMESTIC WORK
- IRREGULAR MIGRATION
- VOLUME AND TYPE OF REMITTANCES
- REMITTANCE CHANNELS
- USE OF REMITTANCES
- GENDER AND REMITTANCES
- REMITTANCES AND POVERTY REDUCTION
- REMITTANCES AND AGRICULTURE
- REMITTANCES AND SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
- POLICY IMPLICATIONS
- ENDNOTES
- Back Cover
