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‘From rhetoric to practice: a critique of immigration policy in Germany through the lens of Turkish-Muslim women’s experiences of migration’

Clarence, Sherran (Berghahn Journals, 2009)

The largest group of migrants in Germany is the Turkish people, many of whom have low skills levels, are Muslim, and are slow to integrate themselves into their host communities. German immigration policy has been significantly ...
Further from the people – bipartisan ‘nationalisation’ thwarting the electoral system

Piper, Laurence (SUN Press, 2012)

This chapter argues that local government elections offer a unique opportunity in South Africa’s political system for voters to practice forms of democracy that are more local, plural and accountable in character than at ...
Gender implications of decentralised land reform: The case of Zimbabwe

Manjengwa, Jeanette; Mazhawidza, Phides (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2009-12)

A bolder policy approach and more vigorous implementation are needed to support women’s empowerment, transfer of land rights to women, and to ensure their productive utilisation of land. The land reform programme focussed ...
Groenfontein–Ramohlakane community restitution claim

Tilley, Susan; Nkazane, Ntombizabantu; Lahiff, Edward (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)

This report examines the efforts of the Groenfontein-Ramohlakane Trust to develop and use the land in (Mpumalanga) that has been restored to the community in terms of the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994 ...
‘How participatory institutions deepen democracy through broadening representation: the case of participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil’

Piper, Laurence (Berghahn, 2014-06)

Abstract: At the same time as democracy has ‘triumphed’ in most of the world, it leaves many unsatisfied at the disjuncture between the democratic ideal and its practical expression. Participatory practices and institutions, ...
Imithetho yomhlaba yaseMsinga: The living law of land in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal

Cousins, Ben (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

This report describes the ‘living law’ of land in one part of Msinga, a deep rural area of KwaZulu-Natal. It presents research findings from the Mchunu and Mthembu tribal areas, where a three-year action-research project ...
The impact of land restitution and land reform on livelihoods

Hall, Ruth (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)

This report investigates emerging trends evident in the limited literature available on the impact of land restitution on livelihoods, and suggests ways of thinking about, and planning for, livelihoods. The report has ...
Impact of WTO policies on developing countries: issues and perspectives

Rena, Ravinder (Ottawa United Learning Academy & Denfar Transnational DevelopmentOttawa United Learning Academy & Denfar Transnational Development, 2012)

About two thirds of the WTO’s around 150 members are developing countries. They play an increasingly important and active role in the WTO because of their numbers, because they are becoming more important in the global ...
Inflows of capital, exchange rates and balance of payments: the post-liberalisation experience of India

Ramakrishna, G.; Rena, Ravinder (Indian Institute of Economics, 2013)

A review of the analytical literature shows that macroeconomic consequences of financial liberalization are the results of the combined effect of monetary, fiscal as well as trade and exchange rate policies followed by the ...
The Information Management Body of Knowledge (IMBOK)

Bytheway, Andrew J. (University of the Western Cape, 2004)

This text is offered primarily as a reference source for postgraduate students who are concerned with the way that information works for organisations. Although there are good books available, none cover the ground in the ...
An institutional approach for developing South African inland freshwater fisheries for improved food security and rural livelihoods

Hara, Mafaniso; Backeberg, Gerhard (Water Research Commission, 2014)

South Africa has over 4 700 storage dams, about 700 of which are owned and controlled by Government. Public dams were primarily constructed for domestic, irrigation and industrial water supply. Over time secondary uses for ...
International comparative study of strategies for settlement support provision to land reform beneficiaries

Tilley, Susan (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)

This paper provides some insights into international experience and attempts to distil the key areas of strategic value for consideration in developing a national strategy for support provision to land reform beneficiaries ...
Joint ventures and livelihoods in emerging small-scale irrigation schemes in Greater Sekhukhune District : Perspectives from Hereford

Tapela, Barbara (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2005-09)

This report is based on research carried out between June 2003 and April 2005 in the Greater Sekhukhune Cross-Border District Municipality, which straddles the boundaries of the Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces. This ...
Linking service delivery and protest in South Africa: an exploration of evidence from Khayelitsha

Nleya, Ndodana (Unisa Press, 2011)

The notion of service delivery protests in South Africa has perhaps become a cliché in South Africa. While there was a lull in protest activity (excluding industrial action) in the first decade of democracy, the second ...
Livelihoods and sharing: Trends in a Lesotho village, 1976–2004

Turner, Stephen (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape & Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc. (CARE), 2005-10)

The study compares the livelihoods and inter-household sharing mechanisms in a Lesotho village across a 28 year period. The report examines the complex socio-economic structures and systems that are in place in the rural ...
Livestock and the rangeland commons in South Africa’s land and agrarian reform

Hall, Ruth; Cousins, Ben (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Taylor & Francis, 2013)

Land and agrarian reform has the potential to expand South Africa’s rangeland commons and enhance their contribution to the livelihoods of the rural poor, yet to a large extent this has been an opportunity missed. ...
Mainstreaming of HIV and Aids into South African fisheries policy

Isaacs, Moenieba; Hara, Mafaniso (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2008-11)

This research investigated the drivers and the impact of HIV and Aids in fishing communities in South Africa, in order to assist the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism: Marine and Coastal Management ...
Money and sociality in South Africa's informal economy

Neves, David; du Toit, Andries (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

This article examines the interplay of agency, culture and context in order to consider the social embeddedness of money and trade at the margins of South Africa’s economy. Focusing on small-scale, survivalist informal ...
Nasruddin's key: poverty measurement and the government of marginal populations

du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape., 2011)

This paper considers the role of ‘measurement’ and other forms of poverty knowledge in a context where the nature and direction of global economic growth is creating ‘surplus populations’ suffering various forms of ...
Non-alignment in the current world order. The impact of the rise of China

Pretorius, Joelien (Institute for Strategic Studies at the University of Pretoria, 2008)

The relevance of the Non-Aligned Movement has been in question since the end of Cold War bipolarity. In the post-Cold War order, whether interpreted as cosmopolitan, unipolar, multipolar or globalised in nature, there are ...

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