A Region Without Borders? Policy Frameworks for Regional Labour Migration Towards South Africa
This report focuses on labour migration policy frameworks in a regional context. It provides an overview of global and regional standards and subsequently focuses on policy evolution in the Southern African regions. In particular, it deals with the set of policy frameworks regulating labour migration towards South Africa from the following neighbouring countries: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. The report summarises the result of research activities conducted under Work Package 1 of the collaborative project -Migrating for Work Research Consortium (MiWORC) - Regional international migration and its impact on the South African labour market: data, policies and livelihoods. The findings discussed in this report will feed into MiWORC's on-going research activities and provide a useful background for specific work packages dealing with labour migration flows, social security provisions and portability of social rights