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Migrant Mine labour from Mozambique: Employment prospects and policy options in the 1990s

Pages 91-120 | Published online: 21 Sep 2007

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  • This paper is one of the products of the Migrant Labour Project jointly run by the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town and Queen's University, Canada. It was made possible through a generous research grant from the IDRC, Canada. A different version of it will appear shortly in Crossing the Boundaries: Mine Migrancy in a Democratic South Africa, published by the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA).

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