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22	South African Government and Civil Society Responses to Zimbabwean Migration, 2008
21	The UN Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers: The Ratification Non-Debate, 2006
20	Migration of Skills in South Africa: Patterns, Trends and Challenges, 2006
19	Irregular Migration to South Africa During the First 10 Years of Democracy, 2006
18	The Draft Protocol on the Facilitation of Movement of Persons in SADC: Implications for State Parties, 2005
17	International Migration and Good Governance in the Southern African Region, 2005
16	South African Immigration Law: A Gender Analysis, 2004
15:	Migration, Urbanisation and Sustainable Livelihoods in South Africa, 2004
14:	Policing Migration: Immigration Enforcement and Human Rights in South Africa, 2003
13:	The Rise of African Tourism to South Africa, 2003
12:	NEPAD, the City and the Migrant: Implications for Urban Governance, 2003
11:	Regionalizing International Migration: Lessons for SADC, 2003
10:	Criminal Tendencies: Immigrants and Illegality in South Africa, 2002
9:	Transnationalism and African Immigration to South Africa, 2002
8:	Thinking About the Brain Drain in Southern Africa, 2002
7:	Evaluating Refugee Protection in South Africa, 2002
6:	The Point of No Return: Evaluating the Amnesty for Mozambican Refugees in South Africa, 2001
5:	Counting Brains: Measuring Emigration From South Africa, 2001
4:	Gender Concerns in South African Migration Policy, 2001
3:	Making Up the Numbers: Measuring "Illegal Immigration" to South Africa, 2001
2:	The New South African Immigration Bill: A Legal Analysis, 2001
1:	The South African White Paper on International Migration: An Analysis and Critique, 2000

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No.	TITLE	Summary	Download
51	Migrant Remittances and Household Survival In Zimbabwe, 2009
50	The Perfect Storm: The Realities of Xenophobia in Contemporary South Africa, 2008
49	Gender, Migration and Remittances in Southern Africa, 2008
48	The Quality of Immigration and Citizenship Services in Namibia, 2008
47	The Haemorrhage of Health Professionals from South Africa: Medical Opinions, 2007
46	Voices from the Margins: Migrant Women's Experiences in Southern Africa, 2007
45	Medical Recruits: the Temptation of South African Health Care Professionals, 2007
44	Migration, Remittances and Development in Southern Africa, 2006
43	Migration and Development in Mozambique: Poverty, Inequality and Survival, 2006
42	States of Vulnerability: The Future Brain Drain to South Africa, 2005
41	The Quality of Migration Services Delivery in South Africa, 2005
40	Migration and Domestic Workers: Worlds of Work, Health and Mobility in Johannesburg, 2005
39	Early Departures: The Emigration Potential of Zimbabwean Students, 2005
38	Northern Gateway: Cross Border Migration Between Namibia and Angola, 2005
37	Understanding Press Coverage of Cross-Border Migration in Southern Africa since 2000, 2005
36	Restless Minds: South African Students and the Brain Drain, 2005
35	Degrees of Uncertainty: Students and the Brain Drain in Southern Africa, 2005
34	Medical Leave: The Exodus of Health Professionals from Zimbabwe, 2005.
33	HIV/AIDS and Children's Migration in Southern Africa, 2004.
32	Swaziland Moves: Perceptions and Patterns of Modern Migration, 2004.
31	Migration, Sexuality, and the Spread of HIV/AIDS in Rural South Africa, 2004.
30	Regionalizing Xenophobia? Citizen Attitudes to Immigration and Refugee Policy in Southern Africa, 2004.
29	The New Brain Drain from Zimbabwe, 2003.
28	Changing Attitudes to Immigration and Refugee Policy in Botswana, 2003.
27	Mobile Namibia: Migration Trends and Attitudes, 2003.
26	The Border Within: The Future of the Lesotho-South African International Boundary, 2002.
25	Zimbabweans Who Move: Perspectives on International Migration in Zimbabwe, 2002.
24	Spaces of Vulnerability: Migration and HIV/AIDS in South Africa, 2002.
23	Gender and the Brain Drain from South Africa, 2002.
22	Immigration, Xenophobia and Human Rights in South Africa, 2001.
21	Cross-Border Raiding and Community Conflict in the Lesotho-South Africa Border Zone, 2001.
20	The Brain Gain: Skilled Migrants and Immigration Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 2000.
19	Botswana: Migration Perspectives and Prospects, July 2000.
18	Losing Our Minds: Skills Migration and the 'Brain Drain' from South Africa, July 2000.
17	Writing Xenophobia: Immigration and the Press in Post-Apartheid South Africa, March 2000.
16	Borderline Farming: Foreign Migrants in South African Commercial Agriculture, March 2000.
15	Undermining Labour: Migrancy and Sub-Contracting in theSouth African Gold Mining Industry, August 1999.
14	Still Waiting for the Barbarians: SA Attitudes to Immigrants & Immigration, April 1999.
13	The Lives and Times of African Migrants & Immigrants in Post-Apartheid South Africa, April 1999.
12	Immigration and Education: International Students at South African Tertiary Institutions, March 1999.
11	Building Skills: Cross-Border Migration and the South African Construction Industry, March 1999.
10	Namibians on South Africa: Attitudes Towards Migration and Immigration Policy, November 1998.
9	Women on the Move: Gender and Cross-Border Migration to South Africa, November 1998.
8	Sons of Mozambique: Mozambican Miners and Post-Apartheid South Africa, July 1998.
7	Challenging Xenophobia: Myths and Realities of Cross-Border Migration in Southern Africa, April 1998.
6	Trading Places: Cross-Border Traders and the South African Informal Sector, March 1998.
5	Left Out in the Cold? Housing and Immigration in the New South Africa, November 1998.
4	Silenced by Nation-Building: African Immigrants and Language Policy in the New South Africa, September 1998
3	International Migration, Immigrant Entrepreneurs and South Africa's Small Enterprise Economy, July 1997.
2	Riding the Tiger: Lesotho Miners and Attitudes Towards Permanent Residence in South Africa, May 1997 (reprinted June 1998).
1	Covert Operations: Clandestine Migration, Temporary Work and Immigration Policy in South Africa, March 1997.

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	Perspectives on the Migration-Development Nexus in Southern Africa Special Issue of Development Southern Africa, 27(2), 2007		Evaluating South African Immigration Policy After Apartheid. Special issue of Africa Today, 48(3) 2001.
	Migration and Health in Southern Africa (Cape Town: Van Schaik, 2003).		On Borders: Perspectives on International Migration in Southern Africa (Cape Town and New York: SAMP/St Martin's Press,2000).
	Destinations Unknown: Perspectives on the Brain Drain (Pretoria: Africa Institute and SAMP, 2002).		The New South Africans? The Immigration Amnesties and Their Aftermath (Cape Town: Idasa/Queen's, 1999).
	Transnationalism, and New African Immigration to South Africa (Toronto: CAAS and SAMP, 2002).		Beyond Control: Immigration and Human Rights in a Democratic South Africa (Cape Town: Queen's/Idasa, 1998).
			Transforming South African Migration and Immigration Policy (Cape Town: SAMP, 1998).

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Brown, Mercy, Kaplan, David & Meyer,J.-M. (2000). An Outline of Skilled Emigration from South Africa. Africa Insight, 30, 41-47.

Campbell, Eugene. (2003). Attitudes of Botswana citizens toward immigrants: Signs of xenophobia? International Migration , 14(4): 71-109.

Campbell, Eugene. (2001). Preferences forEmigration among Skilled Citizens in Botswana, International Journal of Population Geography, 7, 151-71.

Campbell, Eugene. (2000). Perspectives onthe Emigration Potential of Skilled Batswana. Africa Insight, 30, 48-55.

Chikanda, Abel . (2005). Nurse Migration from Zimbabwe : Analysis of Recent Trends and Impacts. Nursing Inquiry , 12, 162-74.

Chikanda, Abel (2006). Skilled Health Professionals' Migration and Its Impact on Health Delivery in Zimbabwe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , 32, 667-80.

Coplan, David. (2001). A River Runs ThroughIt: The Meaning of the Lesotho-Free State Border. African Affairs, 100, 81-116.

Crush, Jonathan, Pendleton, Wade & Tevera, Dan (2006). Degrees of Uncertainty: Students and the Brain Drain in Southern Africa . In Roshen Kishun, ed., The Internationalisation of Higher Education in South Africa (Durban : IEASA), 123-44.

Crush, Jonathan, Williams, Brian, Gouws, Eleanor & Lurie, Mark (2005). Migration and HIV/AIDS in South Africa . Development Southern Africa 22, 293-318.

Crush, Jonathan (2005). Breaking with Isolation: Johannesburg , South Africa ” In Marcello Balbo, ed., International Migrants and the City ( Nairobi : UNHANITAT).

Crush, Jonathan (2005). Forgotten Movements: Cross-Border Migration in Southern Africa . In P. Poddar and D. Johnson. Eds., A Historical Companion to Post-Colonial Thought in English ( Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press).

Crush, Jonathan (2003). Migration and Development in Post-Apartheid South Agfrica . In A. Sakia, ed., Population, Environment and the Challenge of Development ( New Delhi : Akansha), 201-26.

Crush, Jonathan (2002). The Global Raiders: Nationalism, Globalization and the South African Brain Drain. Journal of International Affairs 56, 147-72.

Crush, Jonathan, & McDonald, David.(2002). Introduction to Special Issue: Evaluating South African Immigration Policy after Apartheid. Africa Today,Special Issue: Evaluating South African Immigration Policy after Apartheid, 48, 1-14.

Crush, Jonathan & Tshitereke, Clarence.(2002). Contesting Migrancy: The Foreign Labor Debate inPost-1994 South Africa. Africa Today, Special Issue: Evaluating South African Immigration Policy after Apartheid, 48,49-72.

Crush, Jonathan, Ulicki, Theresa, Tseane, Teke & Van Veuren, Elizabeth. (2001). Undermining Labour: The Rise of Sub-Contracting in Southern African Gold Mines. Journal of Southern African Studies, 27, 5-31.

Crush, Jonathan. (2000). The Dark Side ofDemocracy: Migration, Human Rights and Xenophobia in South Africa. International Migration, 38, 103-34.

Crush, Jonathan, & McDonald, David.(2000). Transnationalism, African Immigration, and New Migrant Spaces in South Africa: An Introduction. Canadian Journal ofAfrican Studies, 34, 1-19.

Crush, Jonathan. (1999). Fortress South Africa and the Deconstruction of the Apartheid Migration Regime. Geoforum,30, 1-11.

Crush, Jonathan. (1999). The Discourse andDimensions of Irregularity in Post-Apartheid South Africa. International Migration, 37, 125-151.

Crush, Jonathan. (1996) A Bad NeighbourPolicy? Migrant Labour and the New South Africa. Southern Africa Report, 12, 3-5.

Danso, Ransford & McDonald, David.(2002). Writing Xenophobia: Immigration and the Print Media inPost-apartheid South Africa. Africa Today, SpecialIssue: Evaluating South African Immigration Policy after Apartheid, 48, 115-138.

Dodson, Belinda & Crush, Jonathan (2004). Masculinizing the Migrant: A Report on Gender Discrimination in South Africa 's 2002 Immigration Act. Feminist Review , 77, 96-119.

Dodson, Belinda. (2002). Discrimination byDefault? Gender Concerns in South African Migration Policy. AfricaToday, Special Issue: Evaluating South African Immigration Policy after Apartheid, 48, 73-90.

Dodson, Belinda. (2000). Porous Borders: Gender and Migration in Southern Africa. South African Geographical Journal, 82, 40-46.

Dodson, Belinda, & Oelofse, Catherine.(2000). Shades of Xenophobia: In-Migrants and Immigrants in Mizamoyethu, Cape Town. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 34,124-148.

Frayne, Bruce & Pendleton, Wade (2001). Migration in Namibia : Combining Macro and Micro Approaches to Research Design and Analysis. International Migration Review 35, 1054-85.

Gay, John. (2000). Migration Attitudes of Skilled Professionals in Lesotho. Africa Insight, 30,65-74.

Handmaker, Jeff. (2002). No Easy Walk:Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa. Africa Today, Special Issue: Evaluating South African Immigration Policy after Apartheid, 48, 91-114.

Klaaren, Jonathan and Ramji, Jaya. (2002).Inside Illegality: Migration Policing in South Africa after Apartheid. Africa Today, Special Issue: Evaluating South African Immigration Policy after Apartheid, 48, 35-48.

Mather, Charles. (2000). Foreign Migrants inExport Agriculture: Mozambican Labour in the Mpumalanga Lowveld, South Africa. Tijdschrift voor Economische en SocialeGeographie, 91, 426-36.

Mattes, Robert, Crush, Jonathan &Richmond, Wayne. (2000). The Brain Gain and Legal Immigration toPost-Apartheid South Africa. Africa Insight, 30, 21-30.

Mattes, Robert & Richmond, Wayne.(2000). The Brain Drain: What Do Skilled South Africans Think? Africa Insight, 30, 10-20.

McDonald, David & Jacobs, Sean (2006). (Re)writing Xenophobia: Understanding Press Coverage of Cross-Border Migration in Southern Africa . Journal of Contemporary African Studies 23, 205-325.

McDonald, David, Zinyama, Lovemore, Gay,John, de Vletter, Fion & Mattes, Robert. (2000). Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Migration from Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabweto South Africa. International Migration Review, 34,813-841.

McDonald, David. (2000). We Have Contact:Foreign Migration and Civic Participation in Marconi Beam, CapeTown. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 34, 101-123.

McDonald, David & Crush, Jonathan.(2000). Understanding the Scale and Character of SkilledMigration in Southern Africa. Africa Insight, 30, 5-9.

McDonald, David. (1999). Lest the Rhetoric Begin: Migration, Population and the Environment in South Africa.Geoforum, 30, 13-25.

McDonald, David. (1998). Hear No Housing, See No Housing: Immigration and Homelessness in the New SouthAfrica. Cities, 15, 449-462.

McDonald, David. (1997). Greener Pastures?:Attitudes Towards Cross-border Migration in Southern Africa. Southern Africa Report, 13 (1).

Oucho, John (2003). From Drain to Gain: Development Aspects of Africa's Brain Drain, Labour Migration and Remittances. In IOM, World Migration 2003 ( Geneva : IOM).

Oucho, John (2002). Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Africa's Liability for the Next Millenium” In D. Joly, ed., Global Changes in Asylum Regimes ( London : Palgrave Macmillan), 154-78.

Oucho, John. (2000). Skilled Immigrants inBotswana. Africa Insight, 30, 56-64.

Oucho, John. (1998). Regional Integrationand Labour Mobility in Eastern and Southern Africa. In RegAppleyard, ed., Emigration Dynamics in Developing Countries:Volume 1. (Aldershot: Gower, 1998), 264-300.

Oucho, John & Crush, Jonathan. Contra Free Movement: South Africa and SADC Migration Protocols. AfricaToday, Special Issue: Evaluating South African ImmigrationPolicy after Apartheid, 48, 139-158.

Peberdy, Sally & Rogerson, Christian (2003). Creating New Spaces? Immigrant Entrepreneurship in South Africa 's SMME Economy. In R. Kloosterman and J. Rath, eds., Venturing Abroad: Global Processes and National Peculiarities of Migrant Entrepreneurship in Advanced Economies ( Oxford : Berg).

Peberdy, Sally. (2002). ImaginingImmigration: Inclusive Identities and Exclusive Policies inPost-1994 South Africa. Africa Today, Special Issue:Evaluating South African Immigration Policy after Apartheid, 48,15-34.

Peberdy, Sally. (2001). Passaggi di frontiera. Piccoli imprenditori e commercio transfrontaliero tra Sudafrica e Mozambico. Afriche e Orienti, 1.

Peberdy, Sally. (2000).  Border Crossings: Small Entrepreneurs and Informal Sector Cross Border Trade between South Africa and Mozambique. Tjidschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geographie, 91(4): 361-378.

Peberdy, Sally. (2000).  Mobile Entrepreneurship: Informal Sector Cross Border Trade and Street Trade in South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 18(2): 201-219.

Peberdy, Sally & Crush, Jonathan. (1998). Rooted in Racism: The Origins of the Alien's Control Act. In Jonathan Crush, ed. Beyond Control: Immigration and Human Rights in a Democratic South Africa (Cape Town and Kingston: Idasa and Queen's University), pp.18-36.

Peberdy, Sally & Crush, Jonathan. (2001).  Invisible Travellers, Invisible Trade?  Informal Sector Cross Border Trade and the Maputo Corridor Spatial Development Initiative. South African Geographical Journal, 83 (2): 115-23.

Peberdy, Sally & Majodina, Zonke.(2000). Just a Roof Over My Head?: Housing and the Somali RefugeeCommunity. Urban Forum, 11, 273-288.

Peberdy, Sally, & Rogerson, Chris.(2000). Transnationalism and Non-South African Entrepreneurs inSouth Africa's Small, Medium and Micro-Enterprise (SMME) Economy.Canadian Journal of African Studies, 34, 20-40.

Peberdy,Sally & Rogerson, Chris. (2002).  Transnationalism and Non-South African Entrepreneurs in South Africa's Small, Medium and Micro-Enterprise Economy. In Jonathan Crush and David McDonald, eds. Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa (Toronto: SAMP and CAAS).

Peberdy, Sally. (1998). Obscuring History. In D. Simon, ed., South Africa in Southern Africa:Reconfiguring the Region (London and Cape Town: James Curreyand David Phillip, 1998).

Rogerson, Chris. (1999). International Migrants in the South African Construction Industry: The Case of Johannesburg. Africa Insight, 29, 40-51.

Rogerson, Chris. (1998). 'Formidable Entrepreneurs': The Role of Foreigners in the Gauteng SMME Economy. Urban Forum, 9, 143-153.

Rogerson, Chris and Rogerson, Jayne. (2000).Dealing Scarce Skills: Employer Responses to the Brain Drain in South Africa. Africa Insight, 30, 31-40.

Rogerson, Chris. (1997). African Immigrant Experiences and Johannesburg's Changing Inner City. Africa Insight, 27, 265-273.

Ulicki, Theresa, & Crush, Jonathan.(2000). Gender, Farmwork, and Women's Migration from Lesotho tothe New South Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 34,64-79.

Ulicki, Theresa. (1999). Basotho MinersSpeak: Subcontracting on South African Gold Mines. SA LabourBulletin, 23 (4).

Williams, Vincent (2006). Regional Cooperation and the Benefits of Migration for Development in Southern Africa . In K. Tamas & J. Palme, eds, How Migration Can Benefit Development ( Stockholm : Institute for Futures Research).

Williams, Vincent. (1999). TheGreen Paper on International Migration. DevelopmentUpdate, 2 (4)

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Crossings is the newsletter of the Southern African Migration Project. Crossings is produced quarterly and is now available online.

• Vol 8, No. 1, January 2007: South African Immigration Reform
• Vol 7, No. 1, March 2006: Deadly Links Between Mobility and HIV/AIDS
• Vol 6, No. 2, March 2005: Harmonisation of Migration Policies in SADC States
• Vol 6, No. 1, February 2005: Brain Drain, 'Major Crisis' for Southern Africa
• Vol 4, No. 1, February 2002: New Training Course Addresses Challenges of Migration
• Vol 3, No. 2, June 1999
• Vol 3, No. 1, January 1999
• Vol 2, No. 3, October 1998
• Vol 2, No. 2, June 1998
• Vol 2, No. 1, February 1998
• Vol 1, No. 1, September 1997

MIDSA Publications

Migration and Development (MAD) Series

Migration and Development Series 1: Migration and Development in Africa: An Overview R. Black, J. Crush, S. Peberdy, with S. Ammassari, L. McLean Hilken, S. Mouillesseux, C. Pooley, R. Rajkotia, 2006 Migration and Development Series 2: The Brain Drain of Health Professionals from Sub-Saharan Africa to Canada R. Labonte, C. Packer, N. Klassen, A. Kazanjian, L. Apland, J. Adalikwu, J. Crush, T. McIntosh, T. Schrecker, J. Walker, D. Zackus, 2007 Migration and Development Series 3: Linking Migration, HIV/AIDS and Urban Food Security in Southern and Eastern Africa J. Crush, M. Grant, B. Frayne, 2007.

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