The Links between Legal Status and Environmental Health

A Case Study of Mozambican Refugees and Their Hosts in the Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal) Lowveld, South Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID12440461
AuthorsCG Dolan (Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, corresponding author), Christopher G Dolan, Stephen M Tollman, Stephen Tollman (0000-0003-0744-7588), Vusimuzi Goodman Nkuna (0000-0002-2443-9021), John S S Gear
Year1997
Volume2
Issue2
Pages62-62
Publication date1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth and Human Rights (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1079-0969 • E-ISSN: 2150-4113
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/4065272
PMID10381829
OpenAlexW2279739192
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited3

This article relates the legal status of Mozambicans in South Africa from 1985 onwards to key findings of a demographic census taken in 1992, an environmental health survey conducted in 1993, and in-depth fieldwork in some of the surveyed settlements in 1995. The case study area on the border with Mozambique is typical of South Africa's rural former homelands, with the exception that it has a large and long-standing refugee population. The environmental health indicators for refugees are considerably worse than for their hosts, and in-depth fieldwork suggests that this can be attributed to their legal and political vulnerability. This raises issues for South Africa's Reconstruction and Development Program, as well as conceptual challenges for promoters of human rights

Archaeology · Census · Economic growth · Environmental health · Environmental protection · Ethnology · Geography · Human rights · Human settlement · Political science · Politics · Population · Refugee · Settlement (finance · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Human Rights and Development · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Medicine · Migration, Refugees, and Integration