Bus trip to Joni the story of undocumented Malawian migrants journeys to Johannesburg

Chiumia, Sintha Cynthia

Bus trip to Joni the story of undocumented Malawian migrants journeys to Johannesburg

dc.contributor.author	Chiumia, Sintha Cynthia
dc.date.accessioned	2017-02-09T10:07:34Z
dc.date.available	2017-02-09T10:07:34Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description	Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Art in Journalism and Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2016	en_ZA
dc.description.abstract	This is a story of undocumented migrants’ journeys between Malawi and Johannesburg, exposing the challenges they face and the corruption that takes place along the borders. Modern migration between the two countries has taken place for close to two hundred years. In the past, migrants, most of whom worked in the mines, were protected by law and that eased their movements. These days, low skilled migrants do not qualify for work permits so they stay in the country illegally. The South African law qualifies such migrants as undesirable visitors and bans them from returning to the country for some time. This research project documents how such migrants return home and come back to South Africa even before their bans expire. The research exposes how the migrants are aided by corrupt officers at the borders. The story shows how some of the migrants utilised a weakness in the old Malawi identification and passport system to obtain new travel documents under false names and return to South Africa undetected. This research project adopted an ethnographic approach. The findings are presented in a longform narrative story, which forms the first part of this document. The story is accompanied by a method document, which provides the theoretical framework and explains the methodology.	en_ZA
dc.description.librarian	GR2017	en_ZA
dc.format.extent	Online resource (v, 50 leaves)
dc.identifier.citation	Chiumia, Sintha Cynthia (2016) Bus trip to Joni: The story of undocumented Malawian migrants' journeys to Johannesburg, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/21976>
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21976
dc.language.iso	en	en_ZA
dc.subject.lcsh	Foreign workers--Press coverage--Malawi
dc.subject.lcsh	Migrant labor--South Africa
dc.subject.lcsh	Foreign workers--Malawi
dc.subject.lcsh	Ethnology--Methodology
dc.subject.lcsh	Illegal aliens
dc.title	Bus trip to Joni the story of undocumented Malawian migrants journeys to Johannesburg	en_ZA
dc.type	Thesis	en_ZA