O trabalho migratório e sua contribuição na economia familiar: caso do posto administrativo de Mapulanguene, 1970-2003

Abstract

The migratory work in Mapulanguene is the result of the community's concerns to meet its economic, social and cultural needs, although initially influenced by the colonial administration system. Therefore, the climatic crises, the lack of employment opportunities at local level, which has often been pastoralism has increasingly motivated young people to emigrate to the RSA clandestinely, given the decline in legal labour migration to the mines since national independence, which is why the largest number of miners won their first contract before independence or soon after. In fact, this activity is prominent at community level, miners contribute to the improvement of the agro-livestock activity, in the assembly of economic infrastructures and in transportation, which has helped the local community a lot, taking into account the difficulties of the Government's response. The armed conflict which devastated the region, with more emphasis on the period from 1983 to 1988, completely destabilised the economic and social panorama of the Mapulanguene community, with the majority of the population having emigrated to RSA and other areas of the country, without counting the huge material losses. During this difficult period, the miners assisted their families at all costs and there were incentives and moral support from the Government to support their families with food and inputs. However, nowadays the miners show a lack of this support from the Government from the labour area to their areas of origin, which contributes to many of them living in extreme poverty.(TRADUÇAO NOSSA)