Preface -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Introduction: Migration to South Africa: Regional Challenges versus National instruments and Interests -- 1. Reforming South African Immigration Policy in the Postapartheid Period (1990-2010) -- 2. The Role of Skilled...

The world is currently at a crossroads. Low- and middle-income countries such as Nigeria are seeing rapid growth in their working-age populations. Yet often, these increasingly educated and skilled young people cannot find meaningful work within their countries of origin, either because their...

Although Africa has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades, we know little about the process of urbanization across the continent. The paper exploits a natural experiment, the abolition of South African pass laws, to explore how exogenous population shocks affect the spatial...

Global migration database -- Quantifying international migration: a database of bilateral migrant stocks / Christopher R. Parsons, Ronald Skeldon, Terrie L. Walmsley and L. Alan Winters -- Impact on development -- The impact of remittances on poverty and human capital: evidence from Latin...