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Internal migration and development planning in South Africa
Ilse Eigelaar-Meets
2024
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This scholarly book aims to illustrate the importance of incorporating internal migration data into development planning initiatives and processes to gain insight into both short- and long-term social changes. This publication draws on census data pertaining to internal migration flows in the Northern Cape and Western Cape provinces of South Africa. The author analyses, compares, and presents data across three post-apartheid periods, 1996–2001, 2001–2006, and 2006–2011, to illustrate how current forces drive and direct migration flows and how this impacts the social dynamics within the two provinces. This book highlights three significant shifts when comparing the two provinces’ pre- and post-1994 internal migration trends. First, it examines the change in the political context framing mobility. Second, it explores the change in the types of internal migration flows sustaining urbanisation. Third, and lastly, it analyses the changing profile of mobile migrants in the Northern Cape and Western Cape. Internal migration and development planning in South Africa makes a compelling case for a strategic and coordinated approach by governments by demonstrating the influence of political and economic forces on internal migration flows and their impact on community social dynamics. Such an approach is essential to address the increasing developmental constraints and challenges posed by internal migration in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Keywords
- Applied sociology
- Bantustans
- Boundaries
- colonisation
- coloured
- Communities
- Democracy
- demographic data
- development planning
- developmental local government
- district
- economy
- Education
- Employment
- Environment
- governance framework
- homelands
- Household
- integrated development planning
- inter-provincial flows
- Internal Migration
- internal migration and development planning
- intra-provincial flows
- Local government
- migrants
- migration
- migration trends
- Northern Cape province
- outmigrants
- outmigration
- Population
- Population distribution
- post-apartheid
- Poverty
- South Africa
- StatsSA
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBD Population and demography
- ubuntu
- UNDP
- Urbanisation
- Western Cape province
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DOI: 10.4102/aosis.2024.BK463Editions