Crossing Boundaries: Mine Migrancy in a Democratic South Africa
本书通过多篇会议论文，分析了南非矿业移民的根深蒂固特征、工人生活条件、健康影响、农村来源地发展及经济危机，探讨了民主化背景下矿业移民的未来。
This book highlights the fundamentally bounded character of mining and migrancy in South Africa by understanding the complexity and depth of the problem. The book consists mainly of edited papers presented at a conference on Transforming Mine Migrancy in the 1990s . The first section traces: the entrenched character of migrancy and the changes in the system and the history of mine migrancy and the erosion of the classical system of long-distance oscillating migration. The second section focuses on the living conditions of partners and wives with emphasis on the forms of accommodation. The third section explores the health implications of continued reliance on migrancy in the mining industry particularly job stress health and perceptions of migrant mine workers as well as the effect of tuberculosis on the mining industry. The fourth section discusses the developments in the rural source areas of migrant workers with emphasis on Malawian migrant labor and politics prospects of migrant mine labor in Mozambique employment patterns among Lesotho migrants and the macroeconomic statistical evidence from Lesotho. The fifth section deals with the economic causes of the experienced crisis and the responses at the center. The sixth and last chapter presents the future of mine migrancy in southern Africa the changes and potential role of Teba and mine migrancy in a democratic South Africa.