Migration in Southern Africa
- Switzerland: Global Commission on International Migration, 2005.
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Southern Africa has a long history of intra-regional migration, dating back to the midnineteenth century. Migration was probably the single most important factor tying together all of the various colonies and countries of the sub-continent into a single regional labour market during the twentieth century. However, entrenched patterns of migration have undergone major restructuring in the last two decades. Southern Africa is now a region on the move.1 Several broader changes underly this shift towards greater and greater intra-regional mobility:
