Migrant labour after Apartheid : the inside story / Leslie Bank, Dorrit Posel, Francis Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bank, Leslie John, author.

Posel, Dori, author.

Wilson, Francis, 1939-2022, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal.

History.

South Africa.

Migration, Internal--South Africa--History--21st century.

Rural-urban relations.

Migrant labor.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Migrant labor after Apartheid

Place of Publication:

Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Migrant Labour after Apartheid focuses on internal migrants and migration, rather than cross border migration into South Africa. It cautions against a linear narrative of change and urban transition. The book is divided into two parts. The first half investigates urbanisation processes from the perspective of internal migration. Several of the chapters make use of recently available survey data collected in a national longitudinal study to describe patterns and trends in labour migration, the economic returns to migration, and the links between the migration of adults and the often-ignored migration of children. The last three chapters of this section shine a spotlight on conditions of migrant workers in destination areas by focusing on Marikana and mining on the platinum belt. The second half of the book explores the double rootedness of migrants through the lens of the rural hinterland from which migration often occurs. The chapters here focus on the Eastern Cape as a case study of a region from which (particularly longer-distance) labour migration has been very common. The contributions describe the limited opportunities for livelihood strategies in the countryside, which encourage outmigration, but also note the accelerated rates of household investment, especially in the built environment in the former homelands. Migrant Labour after Apartheid identifies pockets of relative economic dynamism, especially around former homeland towns, and reflects on the continued importance of rural spaces as places of belonging, identity and investment for social and cultural reproduction." --Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction : migrant labour after apartheid / Leslie J Bank, Dorrit Posel and Francis Wilson.

part 1. Migration and urbanisation after apartheid. Measuring labour migration after apartheid : patterns and trends / Dorrit Posel

Rural-urban migration as a means of getting ahead / Justin Visagie and Ivan Turok

Accessing the city : informal settlements as staging posts for urbanisation in post-apartheid South Africa / Catherine Ndinda and Tidings P Ndhlovu

What does labour migration mean for families? Children's mobility in the context of maternal migration / Katharine Hall and Dorrit Posel

Distance and duality : migration, family and the meaning of home for Eastern Cape migrants / Monde Makiwane and Ntombizonke A Gumede

KwaMashu Hostel : rural-urban interconnections in KwaZulu-Natal / Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama

From 'living wage' to 'family wage' : platinum lives and the contemporary mineworkers' movement (2012-17) / Luke Sinwell

Migrant women in South Africa's platinum belt : negotiating different conceptions of femininities / Asanda-Jonas Benya

How labour migration works in the space economy : labour markets, migration tracks and homelessness as an indicator of failure / Catherine Cross, Catherine Ndinda, S Joseph Mmakola and Nghabiseng Sello

Marikana revisited : migrant culture, ethnicity and African nationalism in South Africa / Leslie J Bank.

part 2. Double-rootedness and rural regimes of value. Agricultural production, the household 'development cycle' and migrant remittances : continuities and change in the Eastern Cape hinterland / Michael Rogan

Migrancy and the differentiated agrarian landscapes : land use, farming and the reproduction of the homestead in the Eastern Cape / Paul Hebinck

Cattle after migrant labour : emerging markets and changing regimes of value in rural South Africa / Leslie J Bank and Mike Kenyon

Double-rooted families : the circulation of hidden resources between urban and rural Africa / Adam Perry

Displaced urbanism : city shack life and the citizenship of the suburban house in the rural Transkei / Leslie J Bank

Changing small-town economies in the Eastern Cape / Michael Aliber and Nqaba B Nikelo

Harnessing the ancestors : uncertainty and ritual practice in the Eastern Cape / Andrew Ainslie

Entangled in patriarchy : migrants, men and matrifocality after apartheid / Leslie J Bank.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780796925794

0796925798

OCLC:

1128890203