The Return of Malawian Labour from South Africa and Zimbabwe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4252029 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert E Christiansen, Jonathan Kydd, Jonathan G Kydd |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 311-326 |
| Publication date | 1983-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x00023296 |
| OpenAlex | W2108602498 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
This article examines an unusual phenomenon in the context of modern African labour migration. It explains how Malawi, which had long been a significant source of migrant workers for its neighbours, managed to withdraw over one-half of its international labour force from abroad in the first six years of the 1970s, and to integrate these individuals into the domestic economy within a very short period of time. Traumatic movements of large numbers of migrant workers have been all too common in contemporary Africa, usually manifested as expulsions from host countries during periods of economic stress. A recent notable example was the exodus of about a million foreign workers from Nigeria in the course of one month in 1983. What is unusual about the reduction in international labour migration from Malawi is that it was induced mainly by economic opportunities rather than by coercion
Coercion (linguistics) · Context (archaeology) · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Phenomenon · Political science · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Market Liberalisation, Household Food Security and the Rural Poor in Malawi
Associational Life in African Cities
The decline in mine migrancy and increase in informal labour migration from northern Malawi to South Africa, 1970s-1980s
Associational Life in African Cities
"No Teba…Forget Teba"
Migration and the Transition to Adulthood in Contemporary Malawi
Informal moves, informal markets
The Impact of Sanctions on South Africa and Its Periphery
Associational Life in African Cities
Plural strategies of accessing land among peri-urban squatters
Rural mobility as a response to land shortages
The effectiveness of structural adjustment lending
Structural adjustment, agricultural development and the poor
Pricing policies in Africa with special reference to agricultural development in Malawi
After the mines
“No Teba …Forget Teba”
Christian Independency and Global Membership
The extrusion of foreign labour from the South African gold mining industry
Malawi's Export Crop Boom
Policy Reform and Adjustment in an Economy under Siege
The Reorganization of Mine Labor Recruitment in Southern Africa
Limits to Recovery
Economic Sanctions against South Africa
Migration and the Transition to Adulthood in Contemporary Malawi
The Village in the City, the City in the Village
Determinants of infant mortality in Malawi
The Malawi Government and South African Labour Recruiters, 1974-92
Ethnography After Globalism
Migrant workers into contract farmers
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,72 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2019 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |