Migration Diplomacy in Global South Relations: A Case Study of South Africa and Zimbabwe

       This study aims to identify the concept of “Migration diplomacy” and the issue of migration in international relations, especially since it did not receive much academic interest in international relations, and attention was focused on its internal effects more, and the concept of migration diplomacy came to cover the gap between reality and practice. Identifying the mechanism by which the state employs the issue of migration to achieve its national interests within the framework of its relations with other countries.
      The study also seeks to focus on a pattern and trend that is also relatively recent in migration studies, which is the study of migration between the countries of the global south and not from the south to the north as common in most studies concerned with migration. And this is by studying the most important determinants affecting immigration diplomacy as well as its patterns and strategies that depend on it to achieve its goal as a tool in international relations in general and between the countries of the global south in particular.
    The case of South Africa and Zimbabwe was chosen to study the role of diplomacy in the issue of migration between them, first because they are two countries of the Global South, and secondly because there is a shift in the pattern of migration diplomacy used in addressing the issue of migration in two different time periods as a result of a set of innovations that have been referred to during the study.