After the mines: the changing social and economic landscape of Malawi–South Africa migration
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Authors
Johnson, Jessica
Publication Date
2017-03-29Journal Title
Review of African Political Economy
ISSN
0305-6244
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Volume
44
Pages
237-251
Language
English
Type
Article
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Johnson, J. (2017). After the mines: the changing social and economic landscape of Malawi–South Africa migration. Review of African Political Economy, 44 237-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2016.1273826
Abstract
By the early 1970s, Malawi was the most significant supplier of mine labour to South Africa. Since then, for a variety of reasons, mine migrancy has dwindled. Nevertheless, migration to South Africa today looms large in the popular imagination, and is pursued by substantial numbers of Malawians, particularly men. By comparison with earlier migrants, however, their trajectories are less certain, their strategies more piecemeal. This paper will focus on contemporary migration to South Africa by young men from a particular village in Chiradzulu District, southern Malawi. Emphasising perspectives from their home village, it will offer insight into the impact of their migration upon family and gender relations, the social and economic situations of the wives and matrilineal kin whom they leave behind, and the tangible and intangible impacts of aspirations to South African migration.
Keywords
Malawi, South Africa, migration, aspiration, livelihoods, gender
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2016.1273826
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/256311
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