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Migrant Women of Johannesburg : Everyday Life in an In-Between City / by C. Kihato.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kihato, C., Author.
- Series:
- Africa Connects
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Africa.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Sociology.
- Sex.
- African Culture.
- Human Migration.
- Urban Sociology.
- Gender Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- African Culture.
- Human Migration.
- Urban Sociology.
- Sociology.
- Gender Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through rich stories of African migrant women in Johannesburg, this book explores the experience of living between geographies. Author Caroline Kihato draws on fieldwork and analysis to examine the everyday lives of those inhabiting a fluid location between multiple worlds, suspended between their original home and an imagined future elsewhere.
- Contents:
- Introduction: welcome to Hillbrow, you will find your people here
- Here I am nobody: rethinking urban governance, in the age of mobility
- Between Pharaoh's army and the Red Sea: social mobility and social death in the context of women's migration
- Turning the home inside-out - private space and everyday politics
- The station, camp and refugee: xenophobic violence and the city
- Conclusion: ways of seeing: migrant women in the liminal city.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781349452996
- 1349452998
- 9781137299970
- 1137299975
- OCLC:
- 863997040
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