"Migration has been an integral part of labour markets and livelihoods across much of the African continent for at least the last century. Over time, and in different places, it has taken a number of different forms ... The African Union has drafted a ‘strategic framework’ for a policy on migration (African Union 2004). But across sub-Saharan Africa, the position of governments towards migration has often remained neutral or hostile. At present, PRSPs show considerable ambivalence towards migration, with the subject either not mentioned at all, or seen as contributing to population growth, urban squalor, the breakdown of traditional family structures, crime, diseases such as HIV/AIDS, land degradation and/or rural poverty." (Quoted from paper)