Mobility and labour regimes in Southern Africa: From Mobile workers to workers on the move. A perspective from Mozambique

• Autores: Albert Farré Ventura
• Localización: Quaderns de l'Institut Català d'Antropologia, ISSN-e 2385-4472, ISSN 0211-5557, Nº. 33, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Mobilitats i mobilitzacions a l'Àfrica), págs. 169-186
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the XIXth century, the discovery ofthe gold mines launched an industrializationprocess in what is today the Republicof South Africa. From then on, wage migrationin southern Africa has been a subjecttackled from different academic disciplines.However, mainstream academicliterature keeps the focus on the core ofthe mining region. Mozambique, despitebeing the origin of many miners, is notwell represented in the regional debates.In this article, through an analysis of existingliterature on Mozambican migrantsand their impact in present day rural livelihoods,I argue that a perspective fromMozambique can contribute with newinsights to several long lasting academicdebates. Furthermore, the Mozambicanperspective proposed is useful to show some disciplinary shortcomings and toencourage multidisciplinary approachesto rural wage migration.