Destination Unknown: Perspectives on to Brain Drain in Southern Africa

Based on National surveys undertaken by the Southern African Migration Project with skilled personnel and employers in South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho, as well as information on the skilled South African diaspora. Destinations Unknown represents the most comprehensive research on skilled migration ever undertaken in the region. This book provides invaluable insight into skilled people's perspectives on and experiences with emigration, and challenges many of the popularly held stereotypes about the "brain drain" in the region. These research findings come at an important time in the development of new immigration legislation and dialogue in Southern Africa and will hopefully contribute to the policy transformation process as it relates to the movement of skilled people. The research will be of interest to policy-makers, academics, employers and NGOs throughout the region as well as the general reader interested in this critical policy topic.