The Impact of Illegal and Legal Migration on the Defense Security of South Africa

Abstract

This paper will examine the phenomenon of migration, movement of people across national borders, into South Africa causing socio-economic challenges that negatively impact the internal defense security of South Africa. The question remains what role and how South Africa will approach neighboring countries in an effort to resolve this issue. This paper briefly explains why migration is a problem, what negative consequences it poses, and what interventions South Africa in collaboration with neighboring countries should engage to mitigate this migration phenomenon and the reduce the impact on defense and military forces. Comparisons will be made with the migration of people to the United States to see if there are any similarities and lessons learnt to be used as a basis to build and improve the security challenge imposed by migration to South Africa.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 19, 2012
Accession Number
ADA561288

Entities

People

  • Bennie Maloy

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Africa
  • Commerce
  • Demography
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Health Services
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Political Systems
  • Security
  • Students
  • Teamwork
  • Undocumented Noncitizens
  • United States
  • Urban Areas
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Sociology

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