Zimbabwean migration to South Africa: how technology helps keep families together

By Maria Marchetti-Mercer, Professor of Psychology and Assistant Dean of Research: Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand
Sonto Madonsela, PhD student, Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand

Political instability and economic decline in Zimbabwe have accelerated migration to South Africa in the last two decades. Because of the overriding socio-economic focus of the migration, people often fail to understand the effects on the migrants and their families. This extract from the book Transnational Families in Africa shows how migrants…

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