Migration, Gender and Households

Ms Khayaat Fakier has begun research on the social and economic impact of rising female migration in post-apartheid South Africa. She is using a case study approach and focuses on women migrating from Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, to Johannesburg and the positive and negative effects migration has on reproductive activities and gender relations in households of origin. Ms Fakier presented a paper on the impact of internal, cross-border and international labour migration on the economy, labour market and social structures in post-apartheid South Africa at a workshop convened by the International Institute of Labour Studies in April 2007.