Migrant Women of Johannesburg [[electronic resource] ] : Everyday Life in an In-Between City / / by C. Kihato

• Autore: Kihato C
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2013.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (197 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.9069120820968221
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology—Africa; Emigration and immigration; Sociology, Urban; Sociology; African Culture; Migration; Urban Studies/Sociology; Sociology, general; Gender Studies
• Soggetto geografico: Johannesburg (South Africa) Emigration and immigration; Johannesburg (South Africa) Social conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Migrant Women of Johannesburg
• ISBN: 1-349-45299-8; 1-137-29997-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790751303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Africa Connects