Despite the removal of restrictions

Despite the removal of restrictions on
movement and increasing female participation
in migration, only a minority of migrant parents
in South Africa include their children in their
destination household. Quantitative analyses of
the circumstances in which children accompany
a migrant parent have been limited by the lack
of available data that document family
arrangements from the perspective of more
than one household. This paper uses data about
members of rural households in a demographic
surveillance population in KwaZulu-Natal and
a linked sample survey of adult migrants to examine
factors associated with children’s inclusion
in the destination household of migrant
parents, analyse the timing and sequence of
children’s moves to parental destination