A picture speaks a thousnd words: understanding women's migration in Johannesburg using visual diaries

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dc.contributor.authorKihato, Caroline
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-27T07:42:55Z
dc.date.available2024-02-27T07:42:55Z
dc.date.issued2010-09-23
dc.departmentLibrary
dc.description.abstractUsing the visual diaries of a group of African women migrants now living in Johannesburg, this article explores what is now termed "ferminization of migration". It does this less by drawing attention to the fact that women are moving than by using women's own images and narratives to reveal dimensions of that experience that have yet to be understood. Centralto the article's arguement is the assertion that images communicate to us in ways that can reveal not only the material conditions of groups that are often hidden from view, but also their own local political locations, and society's own assumptions about them. Women's visual diaries and their narrative reveal the ways in which they negotiate structural impendiments of asylum offialdom, police harassment, patriarchy, unemployment and poverty. The research argues that current understanding of the ferminization of migration fail to reveal the socio-cultural and political complexities of women's mobility on the African continent.
dc.description.librarianBongi Mphuti
dc.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.identifier.citationKihato, 2010
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/18125441.2010.500457
dc.identifier.issnPrint 1812-5441
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/37720
dc.journal.titleA picture speaks a thousnd words: understanding women's migration in Johannesburg using visual diaries
dc.language.isoen
dc.orcid.id0000-0003-2311-4935
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.schoolArchitecture and Planning
dc.subjectMigration || Ferminization
dc.titleA picture speaks a thousnd words: understanding women's migration in Johannesburg using visual diaries
dc.typeArticle
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