Can SA combat migration?
Restricting migration is no solution to South Africa's problems, and could even hamper the country's development, according to a newly-released report.
The report was compiled by the Johannesburg-based Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in SA, an NGO whose members include a range of human rights organisations.
The report said that as the economy slowed and South Africans began to lose jobs, there would be growing pressure for even more restrictive migration policies.
"However, bowing to these pressures would be backward-looking, regressive and self-defeating," it read.
"We will find no answers to South Africa's problems by halting migration."
While a small number of the migrants had humanitarian needs, most were self-sufficient. Many brought skills and resources that generated jobs.....
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