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Title: | Children's Migration as a Household/Family Strategy: Coping with AIDS in Lesotho and Malawi |
Authors: | Ansell, Nicola Van Blerk, Lorraine |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 673-690 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Lesotho Malawi |
Subjects: | households migration children AIDS Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Health and Nutrition Urbanization and Migration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4133914 |
Abstract: | This article examines the diverse ways in which households/families in Lesotho and Malawi employ children's (accompanied and unaccompanied) migration as a strategy to enable them to cope with the impacts of HIV/AIDS. Based on qualitative research with both guardians and migrant children in four communities - low-middle income areas of Maseru; Tlali, a village in the foothills of Lesotho's Maluti Mountains; a low-income area of Blantyre; and Mpando, a Lomwe-speaking village in southern Malawi -, it explores how decisions are made concerning where children should live. Such decisions are aimed at both meeting children's needs and also using their capacities in meeting wider household needs. Hence strategies adopted are often compromises, based on the sense of obligation of individual relatives, household resources and needs, the perceived needs and capabilities of children, and children's own preferences. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |