SIHMA Press Review for October 2024
PRESS REVIEW – SOUTH AFRICA 01 - South Africa’s GNU faces an uphill battle on migration policy Margaret Monyani, Mmabatho Mongae, ISS – Institute for Security Studies in Africa, 10/07/2024 South Africa’s Government of National Unity faces challenges in reconciling competing interests on migration policy. Despite some progressive asylum and migration policies, the country struggles with populist rhetoric...
A Comparison Between South African and United States’ Immigration Policy
Comparison and Path to Permanent Residency: Acquiring permanent residence in a country other than your birth country comes with trials and tribulations. As of 2019, the number of international migrants stood at approximately 272 million, making up 3.5 percent of the world’s population (1). In South Africa, the number of international migrants stands at approximately 4.2 million, and South Africa is the country with the largest number of international migrants on the...
The Regularization of Zimbabwean Migrants: a Case of Permanent Temporariness
In an article titled Back to the future? Can Europe meet its labor needs through temporary, migration? Stephen Castles inquires whether temporary worker schemes introduced in Europe in the 2000s would resemble past guest worker programs which provided employers with young unskilled workers who were unmarried or had left their families at home and worked, on a “rotation basis” (Rotationsprinzip), in agriculture, construction, mining, and manufacturing. His answer to the question is no. However, he argues that “some current approaches...
