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Critical skills visas and the benefits of employment, financial security and opportunities for Zimbabwean migrants living in South Africa
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/134650 Critical skills visas and the benefits of employment, financial security and opportunities for Zimbabwean migrants living in South Africa Kadiki, Troy Eigelaar-Meets, Ilse Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Foreign workers Zimbabweans -- Economic conditions Employment in foreign countries Labor mobility Economic security UCTD Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. Kadiki, T. 2025. Critical skills visas and the benefits of employment, financial security and opportunities for Zimbabwean migrants living in South Africa. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/03dda85a-1df3-42c6-b696-555bc657d933 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Foreign migrants have become accustomed to dealing with challenges in obtaining the required documentation and visas while living abroad. There are large numbers of Zimbabwean migrants residing in South Africa who need to apply for permits for different work categories to qualify for either temporary or permanent residence status. Each visa has a set of different prerequisites that need to be adhered to, to ensure their stay in South Africa. Many foreign-born migrants who transition to South Africa, are well-educated working professionals in search of better living conditions by expanding their expertise. In order to mitigate skills shortages in the country, the South African state implemented the Critical Skills visa with the aim of alleviating skills shortages by employing skilled migrant workers who had the skills and expertise to occupy these positions. The prescription for this visa, however, specifies that not all working migrants can access this special permit, as it is only accessible to migrants who work in specifically defined scarcely skilled occupations such as managers, professionals and artisans. The aim of this study is to examine the experiences of Zimbabwean migrants who qualify for critical skills visas, specifically focusing on their motivations for choosing South Africa as a destination, as well as the challenges they encounter during the application process of the visa. This is achieved by exploring several factors which include complex visa requirements, slow service delivery and limited access to information in mitigating the crisis of the visa application process. Moreover, the study is concerned with understanding the strategies that they employ to overcome these challenges. This paper aims to create an understanding of the resilience of Zimbabwean migrants in navigating South Africa’s immigration policies as well as trying to establish new lives abroad. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar nie. Masters 2025-12-22T07:33:56Z 2025-12-22T07:33:56Z 2025-12 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/134650 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 83 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Foreign workers Zimbabweans -- Economic conditions Employment in foreign countries Labor mobility Economic security UCTD Kadiki, Troy Critical skills visas and the benefits of employment, financial security and opportunities for Zimbabwean migrants living in South Africa |
| title | Critical skills visas and the benefits of employment, financial security and opportunities for Zimbabwean migrants living in South Africa |
| title_full | Critical skills visas and the benefits of employment, financial security and opportunities for Zimbabwean migrants living in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Critical skills visas and the benefits of employment, financial security and opportunities for Zimbabwean migrants living in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Critical skills visas and the benefits of employment, financial security and opportunities for Zimbabwean migrants living in South Africa |
| title_short | Critical skills visas and the benefits of employment, financial security and opportunities for Zimbabwean migrants living in South Africa |
| title_sort | critical skills visas and the benefits of employment financial security and opportunities for zimbabwean migrants living in south africa |
| topic | Foreign workers Zimbabweans -- Economic conditions Employment in foreign countries Labor mobility Economic security UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/134650 |
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