Counting Brains:

Southern African Migration Project, Migration Policy Brief No. 5.
Official South African statistics on the magnitude of emigration from the country seriously
undercount. In this paper, the authors have devised an innovative methodology which
reveals the extent of the undercount but also provides important insights into the volume and sectoral distribution of emigrants. One of the common strategies suggested for countering some of the negative consequences of “brain drain” is the mobilization of diaspora networks. The paper provides an introduction to one such network, the SANSA project.