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Based on an extended study of Zimbabwean women migrants in the Gauteng Province of South Africa, this article focuses on these women both as mothers and as labor migrants, seeking to understand their migration intentions in relation to changing policy and law in South Africa. It also focuses on their responses to the changes in policy as they seek to renegotiate the border. The strategies adopted by the women in negotiating the border not only demonstrate their agency, but are also intricately linked to their migration intentions. Their responses are critical to our understanding of contemporary migration in the region.

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This chapter presents a discussion between experts on demographics. They discuss the effect of the prolonged one-child-per-couple policy in China and its economic consequences. Cohort graphs reveal that in the past overseas-born mothers were a very heterogeneous group. Particularly the mothers from India and Pakistan somewhat tended to have births younger and (b) have more births. But what we are seeing now is fewer new births coming in through those mothers. We now have mothers from the accessioncountries who tend to have similar, or lower, fertility, albeit at slightly younger ages than UK-born mothers. Regarding migration and fertility studies, the massive decline in fertility was unanticipated. The sustained low levels of fertility in Europe were unanticipated.

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“Negotiating the Border”: Zimbabwean Migrant Mothers and Shifting Immigration Policy and Law in South Africa

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“Negotiating the Border”: Zimbabwean Migrant Mothers and Shifting Immigration Policy and Law in South Africa

6 - Demographics

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