• Urban livelihoods and the risk of HIV infection: lived experiences of young migrant women in Havana informal settlements in Windhoek, Namibia 

  Shinana, Eveline M (2014-10-22)

  Informal settlements are associated with higher prevalence of HIV. There is empirical evidence that HIV prevalence is higher in the North-Western suburbs (Katutura) of Windhoek which primarily consist of low-income housing ...
• Giving birth in a foreign land : maternal health-care experiences among Zimbabwean migrant women living in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

  Makandwa, Tackson (2014-09-11)

  The republic of South Africa has a “health for all” policy, regardless of nationality and residence status. However, challenges still exist for non-nationals and little is known regarding migrants’ maternal healthcare ...
• Memory and violence: Displaced Zimbabwean rural communities reliving the memories of the March 2008 political violence. 

  Mvundura, Wellington (2014-08-26)

  This thesis is premised on the argument that a distinct kind of narrative (‘truth’) about political violence, a narrative of the first-person experience, a narrative that is valued for its power to counter totalising ...
• Seeking goals in the urban estuary : how a personal migrant subjectivity is reified into productive strategies and generative social effects. 

  O'Keefe, Peter (2014-07-28)

  Using a micro-level frame of analysis, and working from in-depth interviews in Johannesburg's migrant-rich ‘urban estuaries,’ this research report considers participants’ personal, subjective, understanding of their own ...
• Microfinance as a livelihood strategy: A case study of forced migrants in Johannesburg 

  Kamugi, Watetu (2014-06-13)

  Microfinance as a tool for development has been used all over the world in combating poverty and improving livelihoods. It is described as the provision of savings, credit and insurance services to low income earners and ...
• Effects of perceptions and negotiation of decision making on gender relations, masculinity and contested patriachy among immigrant-South African households in Johannesburg, South Africa 

  Aaca, Lisa Rebecca (2014-01-31)

  The study aimed at understanding how immigrant men and South African women in heterosexual relationships perceive and negotiate gender relations arising from household decision-making; and the effects these have on notions ...
• Towards understanding the experiences of accessing antiretroviral treatment services among Congolese men at clinics in Yeoville, Johannesburg 

  Swamba, Adrien Bazolakio (2014-01-30)

  Little is known about the experiences of Congolese men receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) services in the urban areas of South Africa. Johannesburg is home to many non-citizens who left their home country because of ...
• Managing the final journey home: exploring perceptions, experiences and responses to death among Congolese migrants in Johannesburg 

  Kwigomba, Darius (2014-01-22)

  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 ...
• Treatment experiences of HIV positive temporary cross-border migrants in Johannesburg : access, treatment continuity and support networks. 

  Hwati, Roseline (2013-10-03)

  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 ...
• Authority, trust and accountability : regulation of pharmaceutical drug trade practices in Yeoville. 

  Cossa, Ema Euclesia (2013-09-27)

  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 ...
• "At your own risk" : narratives of Zimbabwean migrant sex workers in Hillbrow and discourses of vulnerability, agency, and power. 

  Schuler, Greta (2013-09-27)

  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 impact of informal social networks on integration - a case study of migrant learners at Jules High School in central Johannesburg. 

  Hoehne, Dalia (2013-03-19)

  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 ...
• The socio-economic integration of Congolese migrants in Johannesburg : 'a gendered analysis. 

  Mugisho, Aline M. (2013-02-18)

  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 ...
• The adoption and ratification of the African Union's Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa: an analysis of the dicourse of states and the international humanitarian aid community 

  Johnson, Hilton William Eric (2012-10-17)

  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 ...
• Exploring the psychological needs of cross-border unaccompanied minors in Johannesburg: how cross-border unaccompanied minors are challenging psychosocial programmes 

  Johnston, Libby (2012-08-24)

  Background: 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 claim for urban space and the problem of exclusion: the perception of outsiders' rights by communities affected by xenophobic violence in contemporary South Africa 

  Ogunyemi, Samson (2012-08-21)

  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 ...
• Making meaning amidst xenophobia: how Apolistic Zionist Churches make sense of outsiders, scarcity, and entitlement in Alexandra Township, South Africa 

  Hartman, Becca (2012-02-28)

  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 ...
• Gaining an understanding of Umnyama from the Zionist churches: a case study of Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa 

  Zulu, Melekias (2012-01-20)

  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 ...
• (Un)Rest in peace : the agents of human remains repatriation and the lives of living migrants : a study of agency, process and effect in repatriating bodies from South Africa and the U.S.A. 

  Wheeler, Brittany Lauren (2011-11-10)

  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 ...
• Perceptual factors and Nigerian immigrants in Johannesburg: a study of the role of Nigerian-South African intermarriages in social integration 

  Oluwafemi, Adeagbo (2011-09-22)

  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 ...

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