while skilled workers move relatively unhindered, those who do not belong to this elite category have limited access to migration opportunities, at least within legal frameworks, existing policies and practices, especially in South Africa. It is therefore urgent to re-examine current migration policies in Africa, particularly regarding how the human rights of migrants and asylum seekers are perceived. Globalization has increased the mobility of capital, information and goods, thus facilitating the non-liberalization of human mobility. Violent armed conflicts across much of Africa have played their part in increasing the human mobility of those fleeing persecution. Historically, the apartheid regime depended to varying degrees on uneducated foreign labor to protect itself from black activists. The African National Congress has freed itself from this dependence by following a policy that favors quality. This was very visible in the application of restrictive measures on the hiring of foreign labor under the internalization policy of 1974. It became...