During the apartheid era South Africa's internal migration was more or less determined by law. However, new patterns of internal migration have emerged with the democratisation of the country in 1994. These patterns were examined by means of a modified gravity model, which showed that the...

The migratory labor system in South Africa draws large numbers of men away from rural areas and often places them in single sex hostels, prompting contacts with sex workers and the HIV infection of their partners. As inadequate information exists on HIV/AIDS and internal migration's...

Global warming has recently raised a lot of concerns about the future of our planet in terms of inhabitability. These concerns focus particularly on the possible increase in the migration toward more hospitable urban areas within a country or toward more hospitable countries. However, to our...