Responses to Zimbabwean Migration

Zimbabwean migration to South Africa since 2000 has been the largest single flow of people in South African history. In spite of this, there has been relatively little comprehensive study of Zimbabwean migration in South Africa, nor have there been coherent or commensurate government responses to this movement.

Zimbabwean migration to South Africa has raised a series of theoretical and policy issues, including, among others:
• appropriate legal and humanitarian responses to mixed migration flows;
• disaster preparedness and response in the case of gradually increasing long-term and large-scale migration, rather than an immediate mass movement of people;
• the roles of informal, social network based social welfare systems in the absence of formal social welfare protection;
• policy-making (or the lack thereof) on the basis of migration myths rather than facts (especially regarding migration volumes).

 

Responses to Zimbabwean Migration Publications

Thornycroft, P. (2011).  Thousands of Zimbabweans in South Africa Face Deportation. Voice of America.
Chaykowski, K. (2011).  Zimbabweans brace for deportation. Mail & Guardian.
[Anonymous] (2011).  Ngwato, T.P., 2011. Interview on Morning Live [television] SABC 2, 27 July 2011, 7:00.. SABC 2 Morning Live.
Amit, R. (2011).  The Zimbabwean Documentation Process: Lessons Learned. ACMS Research Report. 1-29.
VanWyk, E. (2011).  Communities not blindly xenophobic. News 24.
Rawoot, I. (2011).  ANC dithers on xenophobia. Mail & Guardian.
Masuku, S. (2011).  Xenophobia to come in the spotlight [11 May 2011]. The Sowetan.
Bell, A. (2011).  Tara Polzer Ngwato interviewed in Diaspora Diaries [20 Sept. 2011 at 19:35].
Amit, R. (2011).  The First Safe Country Principle in Law and Practice. 1-7.
[Anonymous] (2011).  Ngwato, T.P., 2011. Tara Polzer Ngwato interviewed on Kaya FM [radio] Kaya FM, 2 August 2011, 08:15-08:20.. Kaya FM.
Polzer Ngwato, T. (2010).  Silence and Fragmentation: South African Responses to Zimbabwean Migration. (Jonathan Crush, Daniel Tevera, Ed.).Zimbabwe's Exodus: Crisis, Migration, Survival . 363-376.
Polzer Ngwato, T. (2009).  Immigration Policy Responses to Zimbabweans in South Africa: Implementing Special Temporary Permits (Background Paper).
Polzer Ngwato, T. (2009).  Regularising Zimbabwean Migration to South Africa. 1-5.
Polzer Ngwato, T. (2008).  Responding to Zimbabwean Migration in South Africa: Evaluating Options. South African Journal of International Affairs. 15(1), 1-28.
Polzer Ngwato, T. (2008).  South African Government and Civil Society Responses to Zimbabwean Migration (SAMP Policy Brief No. 22).
Landau, L. B., & Ngwato T. P. (2008).  Where to From Here? Zimbabwean Migrants and the Future of Southern Africa [22 September 2008]. The South African Civil Society Information Service (SACSIS).
Vigneswaran, D. (2007).  Fact or Fiction? Examining Zimbabwean Cross-Border Migration into South Africa. FMSP Research Report. 1-17.
Polzer Ngwato, T. (2007).  Zim exodus plan fatally flawed [27 August 2007]. Mail & Guardian.
Polzer Ngwato, T., & del Valle H. (2003).  Emergency Preparedness in South Africa; Lessons from the Zimbabwean Elections. Forced Migration Review. 16(January), 27-30.
Ngwato, T. P., & del Valle H. (2002).  Emergency Preparedness in South Africa; Twenty-Four Lessons from the Zimbabwean Elections. 1-41.