Migration Shocks: Integrating Lesotho's Retrenched Migrant Miners.

• Autores: Samuel N.-A. Mensah, Vannie Naidoo
• Localización: International migration review, ISSN 0197-9183, Vol. 45, Nº. 4, 2011, págs. 1017-1042
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper finds that the decline in the numbers of Basotho1 migrant mine workers since the 1990s was not market induced but rather a result of political and policy changes in South Africa. As a result of these changes, household income throughout rural Lesotho dropped significantly. As current migrant households generally do not have skilled workers or operate family businesses, the paper makes a case for training in skills and entrepreneurship as a means of utilizing Lesotho's comparative advantages to generate domestic employment and absorb retrenched and prospective migrant mine workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]