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Title:Children's Migration as a Household/Family Strategy: Coping with AIDS in Lesotho and Malawi
Authors:Ansell, NicolaISNI
Van Blerk, LorraineISNI
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]
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