Movement of people and the right of residence and establishment: a focus on South Africa
SOURCE: Africa Insight
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2016
TITLE AUTHOR(S): J.Viljoen, M.Wentzel, N.Pophiwa
KEYWORDS: CROSS-BORDER MIGRATION, MIGRANTS, POLICY FORMULATION, POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9540
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/10517
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/10517
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2016
TITLE AUTHOR(S): J.Viljoen, M.Wentzel, N.Pophiwa
KEYWORDS: CROSS-BORDER MIGRATION, MIGRANTS, POLICY FORMULATION, POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9540
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/10517
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/10517
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Abstract
This paper examines South Africa's migration policy framework development and the initiatives undertaken on the basis of the commitments to the Abuja Treaty and successive African Union (AU) frameworks regarding the free movement of people in the region. As such the paper outlines South Africa's compliance and contentions with the notion of free movement of people and how it tries to balance the dual roles of meeting the needs of its previously disadvantaged population at the same time as complying with principles of regional integration, which are important to its foreign policy. As will be shown in the paper, among other things, the country has been faced with implementation challenges in the enforcement of its migration policies to such an extent that non-state actors, such as communities, have resorted to violence against migrants due to perceptions that there has been an uncontrolled influx of migrants resulting from lax law enforcement.-
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