The purpose of the current study was to determine the constraints to and opportunities for organising the gendered home-based care sector in post apartheid South Africa. Also the gender aspect of care work has been closely ...
Abstract This study explores the impact a refugee influx has on the decentralisation process. It uses the case study of Loulouni, southern Mali, in 2005-2006, where a camp for Ivorian refugees was established. Using ...
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The economic and political collapse of Zimbabwe resulted in the movement of women and men beyond their borders in search of better economic opportunities. The movement of Zimbabwean women has been accompanied by ...
Abstract This dissertation is based on a qualitative study conducted in Johannesburg to explore the
meanings that a group of Zimbabwean migrants attach to experiences of socio-political
violence, called Gukurahundi. ...
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The thesis investigates how transnational familial ties and socio-cultural dynamics shape migrants‘ remitting behavior and inform their relationships. It shows that most research on remittances fails to capture ...
Rationale: Urbanization is rapidly taking place in Africa: fifty percent of the continent‘s population is expected to be
living in urban areas by 2030 (Kok and Collinson in Vearey 2010b). Both internal1 and cross-border ...
South Africa has received different categories of migrants from the African continent and beyond. Among these migrants some left their home countries because of violence. In the host country (South Africa), they face ...
This study seeks to understand how the general assumptions, perceptions, and representations of Nigerian immigrants shape marriages between Nigerian men and South African women in Johannesburg. It looks at the impact of ...
Migration, as a field of study and a phenomenon greatly impacting society, primarily concerns
itself with the living. When migrants die outside their native territory or nation, the economic,
social, physical and spiritual ...
When migrants move, they move with their religious beliefs and practices. What happens to those religious beliefs and practices in the country of migration? Is there change or continuity in religious affiliation? While ...
Reports from the May 2008 surge of ‘xenophobic’ violence in Johannesburg’s Alexandra Township and across the country name the causes of the attacks as: poor service delivery and high unemployment; a sense of entitlement ...
This research is located in the broader body of literature and activity that have sought to
comprehend the xenophobic violence of 2008 in South Africa and the persistence of this
phenomenon, especially in poor locales ...
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This research investigates the psychosocial needs of cross-border unaccompanied
minors (UAMs) within urban Johannesburg, a city that attracts nearly half of all the
cross-border migrant population in South ...
The phenomenon of internal displacement dwarfs the refugee crisis world-wide. Forced
migration, and more specifically internal displacement, looms as one of the largest and most poorly
understood humanitarian challenges ...
This qualitative study conducted in South Africa, explores the socio-economic integration of Congolese migrants living in Johannesburg. Drawing on respondents own subjective experiences, this study investigates the way ...
In the absence of governmental programs which facilitate and support integration, this study looks at strategies that migrants, and in particular migrant children themselves, develop and the experience they have of the ...
This study explores the self-representations of cross-border migrant, female sex workers
in Johannesburg and compares these representations to those created by public discourses around
cross-border migration, sex work, ...
The increase in use and distribution of pharmaceuticals on a global scale has caused pharmaceuticals to play an integral role in the notions of quality of health.
This study is concerned with how Western medication is ...
As the economic hub of South Africa, Johannesburg attracts cross-border migrants in search
of improved livelihoods; over half the population of some of its inner-city suburbs are made
up of cross border migrants. Globally ...
The study explores perceptions and responses of Congolese migrants when they experience the death of other migrants. The study takes an ethnographic qualitative approach and gathers data from three Congolese ethnic groups ...