Migration and socio-economic change in rural South Africa, 2000-2007

The Dynamics of Migration, Health and Livelihoods: INDEPTH Network Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 81-108

  Collinson, Mark A ^a   Gerritsen, Annette A M ^b   Clark, Samuel J ^c   Kahn, Kathleen ^a   Tollman, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VENDA   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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