Home Affairs deportation statistics

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Department of Home Affairs
Coverage	1985-2000
Works using it	5

Debates

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Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Crush and James (1995a)	Department of Home Affairs deportation figures; UNHCR Maputo 1993 mission report and interviews; Comissao Nacional do Plano 1993; Lesotho Bureau of Statistics 1990 labour force survey; World Bank WDR 1992	1985-1993	Evidence on clandestine migration, regional economic stagnation and remittance dependence.
Crush and James (1995b)	South African Department of Home Affairs deportation figures and UNHCR Maputo interviews	1988-1993	Used as the only available indicator of clandestine migration.
Crush and McDonald (2001)	Deportation statistics 1994-2000 (police/Home Affairs; source not named)	1994-2000	Shows deportations rising after 1994, including 157,084 in 1995 and over 600,000 removals between 1994 and 2000.
Kanyenze (2004)	South African deportation and overstayer statistics, 1988-1997	1988-1997	Used as a rough proxy for undocumented migration in the absence of actual figures.
Kok et al. (2006)	Deportation statistics (South African Home Affairs; Botswana immigration) as reported by Oucho 2000, Crush, Tevera & Zinyama	1988–1997	Used as an indirect indicator of the scale of undocumented migration.