J Crush
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2811 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Crush |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Crush |
| FIRMA | CRUSH J |
| AFILIACIONES | Balsillie School of International Affairs |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3342-3192 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 128 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 512 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 125 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Migrant Remittances and Household Food Security in the Ghana–Qatar Migration Corridor
Labour migration and remittances have become central to household survival strategies across West Africa, yet their role in improving food security remains poorly understood. Drawing on a 2023 household survey of 200 migrant-sending households in Accra and Kasoa, this paper examines how migration to Qatar and remittance inflows influence food access, consumption patterns, and household wellbeing among urban Ghanaian households. The findings show …
New Directions in South-South Migration
Wild and Indigenous Foods (WIF) and Urban Food Security in Northern Namibia
Rapid urbanisation and food system transformation in Africa have been accompanied by growing food insecurity, reduced dietary diversity, and an epidemic of non-communicable disease. While the contribution of wild and indigenous foods (WIF) to the quality of rural household diets has been the subject of longstanding attention, research on their consumption and role among urban households is more recent. This paper provides a case study of the cons…
Translocality, Remittances, and Food Security in the Ghana-Qatar Migration Corridor
This paper examines the impact of migrant remittances on household food security in the Ghana-Qatar migration corridor. Drawing on a 2023 survey of migrant-sending households in Ghana and in-depth qualitative interviews with migrants in Qatar, the study explores the characteristics, determinants, and patterns of remitting. The findings reveal that cash remittances play a crucial role in enhancing food security and the overall welfare of household…
Pandemic Mobilities, Livelihood Disruptions, and Food Insecurities among Eastern Cape Migrants in Cape Town and Johannesburg during Covid-19
This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on internal migrants from the Eastern Cape in the cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, with a focus on mobility restrictions, livelihood disruptions, and food insecurity. Methodologically, the paper draws on a survey of 1,733 migrant households in the two cities conducted in 2023 and identifies significant economic hardships and increased food insecurity among internal migrant…
Cities of Contagion
An Endless Cycle of Worry and Hardship”
COVID-19 has produced unprecedented effects on the global economy and society by exposing multiple weaknesses and faultiness. The pandemic has disrupted global and local agricultural production processes and food supply chains with negative consequences for food security. Containment measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, including strict restrictions on the movement of people, goods, and services have affected urban food systems adversely in …
Exploring a novel approach to enhancing urban food affordability
Digital Disruptions in the South Africa–Zimbabwe Remittance Corridor During Covid-19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant remittances has generated a great deal of confusion and debate. This article aims to test three conflicting global and local narratives about the relationship between the pandemic and remittance flows in the South Africa–Zimbabwe remittance corridor. We refer to these as remittance pessimism, remittance resilience and remittance rerouting narratives. The article presents the pre-pandemic background c…
Urban food insecurity and the impact of China's affordable food shop (AFS) program
Food security, equitable development and South–South migration
‘The nexus between migration and food security remains a peripheral and much-neglected concern’ In this Commentary, we reflect on recent policy-related and research moves to connect migration with food security. Food security refers to the condition where individuals, households, and communities have both physical and economic access to an adequate quantity and quality of food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for a healthy and act…
Emergency food supplies and food security in Wuhan and Nanjing, China, during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Pathways to food insecurity
The COVID-19 pandemic has issued significant challenges to food systems and the food security of migrants in cities. In China, there have been no studies to date focusing on the food security of migrants during the pandemic. To fill this gap, an online questionnaire survey of food security in Nanjing City, China, was conducted in March 2020. This paper situates the research findings in the general literature on the general migrant experience duri…
Revisiting the African supermarket revolution
Africa is rapidly urbanising and urban food systems are being transformed. Some have argued that this transformation is driven by a supermarket revolution akin to that in North America, Europe and Latin America. Others suggest that the supermarket revolution model oversimplifies complex African realities and that urban food systems are experiencing uneven supermarket penetration in the face of resilient informal food sectors. This paper focuses o…
Revisiting China’s supermarket revolution
The Informal Food Sector and Cohabitation with Supermarkets in Windhoek, Namibia
Resituating Africa’s Urban Informal Food Sector
Informalized containment
Policy responses to the growth of the informal food sector in African cities vary from benign neglect to active destruction. The eradication of street food vending is the dominant mode of governance. Alternative approaches that recognize the inevitability of informality and the role of the sector in making food accessible to the urban poor have begun to emerge. One is an enclose-and-contain model that creates spaces for trading and seeks to confi…
Global Zimbabweans
The Hungry Cities Food Purchases Matrix
Rendering South Africa Undesirable
Living With Xenophobia
South Africa’s crisis of xenophobia is defined by the discrimination and intolerance to which migrants are exposed on a daily basis. A major target of the country’s extreme xenophobia – defined as a heightened form of xenophobia in which hostility and opposition to those perceived as outsiders and foreigners is expressed through violent acts – is the businesses run by migrants and refugees in the informal sector. Attitudinal surveys clearly show …
Harnessing Migration for Inclusive Growth and Development in Southern Africa
The primary goal of this study is to present the results of a comprehensive scope of key opportunities and challenges for harnessing migration for inclusive growth and development at the regional level in Southern Africa. The main objectives were as follows: Provide an overview of regional migration stocks and flows identifying regional trends, drivers and impacts from existing research literature and official data; Profile migrant characteristic…
White farms, black labor
Throughout southern Africa, the rapid growth of commercial agriculture owed more to state intervention than to market forces. For South Africa, in particular, this expansion led to distortion in the labour market, in produce markets, and ultimately in the economy overall. The costs were high: socially, environmentally, and economically. Trapped in this system, black farm workers paid a high price. This book centres these key aspects of southern A…
Zimbabwe's Exodus
Scripting the Compound
In this paper the discursive construction of South Africa's quintessential institution of labour coercion and control-the mine compound-is explored. Popular and academic narratives of the origins, spread, and role of the compound are traced, with particular attention to the scripts of marxists, social historians, and poststructuralists. I argue that underlying each is a set of spatial images which powerfully constrains what is admissible to the n…
The Dark Side of Democracy
South Africa prides itself on having one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. The Bill of Rights guarantees a host of basic political, cultural and socio‐economic rights to all who are resident in the country. Yet there have been persistent reports that citizen intolerance of non‐citizens, refugees and migrants has escalated dramatically since 1994. This article documents this process through presentation of results of national pub…
South-South medical tourism and the quest for health in Southern Africa
Medical Xenophobia and Zimbabwean Migrant Access to Public Health Services in South Africa
Xenophobic attitudes and actions are all-pervasive in South Africa in civil society and the state. Medical xenophobia refers to the negative attitudes and practices of health professionals and employees towards migrants and refugees based purely on their identity as non-South African. This paper examines the extent to which xenophobia manifests itself within the public institutions that offer health services to citizens and non-citizens, based on…
Linking Food Security, Migration and Development
The issue of food security is strikingly absent from current debates about the relationship between migration and development. The current international food security agenda displays a similar disregard for migration. There thus appears to be a massive disconnect between these two global development agendas. The reasons are hard to understand since the connections between migration and food security seem obvious. This article addresses possible r…
The relative deprivation-gratification continuum and the attitudes of South Africans toward immigrants
It has long been established that there is a linear and positive relationship between relative deprivation and prejudice. However, a recent experiment suggests that the converse of relative deprivation, relative gratification, may also be associated with prejudice (S. Guimond & M. Dambrun, 2002). Specifically, the evidence suggests that the usual test for a linear relationship between relative deprivation-gratification and prejudice might conceal…
Food security in Southern African cities
Several decades of research on ‘urban agriculture’ have led to markedly different conclusions about the actual and potential role of household food production in African cities. In the context of rapid urbanization, urban agriculture is, once again, being advocated as a means to mitigate the growing food insecurity of the urban poor. This article examines the contemporary importance of household food production in poor urban communities in 11 dif…
Fortress South Africa and the deconstruction of Apartheid’s migration regime
Gender, Farmwork, and Women's Migration from Lesotho to the New South Africa
On a observe ces dix dernieres annees une importante augmentation du nombre des femmes venues d’etats voisins emigrer en Afrique du sud. La specificite and le caractere profondement feminin de ce mouvement n’ont pas encore ete pleinement reconnus par les chercheurs ou les faiseurs de politiques. Il est important de signaler le commencement d’une reconfiguration basee sur le sexe du contrat de travail officiel des immigrants, jusque la representat…
The Discourse and Dimensions of Irregularity in Post‐Apartheid South Africa
South Africa’s migration policy since 1994 has been described as contradictory and confused. Indeed, there are profound differences of opinion within government and civil society over the best means to deal with what is believed to be a massive and threatening increase in clandestine migration and irregular employment. Clarity of thought and policy debate has been hampered by an inflammatory discourse which fixates on the issue of numbers, and vi…
The Colonial Division of Space
The question of land alienation in the settler state has recently experienced something of a resurgence of interest among students of the African past. While some are content with the orthodoxy of conventional historical analytical frameworks, others seek new insights within political economy paradigms.1 The latter approach and its attendant conceptual formulations has not, as yet, diffused sufficiently to shed new light on the Swaziland case.2 N…
The third wave
Migration from Zimbabwe has recently been described as an archetypal form of "mixed migration" in which refugees and migrants are indistinguishable from one another. This paper argues that such a state-centred understanding of mixed migration oversimplifies a far more complex reality and fails to adequately account for the changing nature of Zimbabwean out-migration. Based on data from three separate Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP) su…
Undermining Labour
The rapid growth of sub-contracting in South African mines has been virtually ignored to date in the mainstream research literature on mining and migrant labour. In part, this is a result of the tunnel vision of researchers; and in part it is because of the difficulties of research and access to the mines. This paper explores the growth and implications of sub-contracting in South African gold mines since 1990. It has three main objectives. The f…
Depopulating the compounds
The Southern African Pleasure Periphery, 1966-83
Both Lesotho and Swaziland possess a well-developed rhetoric advocating disengagement from South Africa, exemplified most recently in their joint commitment to the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference. Nevertheless, both countries remain firmly fastened to their dominant neighbour and committed to development strategies which tend to perpetuate such ties. The implications of continued social and economic domination by South Afric…
Introduction to Special Issue
Apartheid-era immigration laws remain in force in South Africa. The will to change is considerable but the whole transformation process has been constantly bedeviled by the complexity of the issues and political tensions between the ruling ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party
New Wave African Historiography and African Historical Geography
Supermarket Expansion and the Informal Food Economy in Southern African Cities
The new international food security agenda proposes small farmer production as the solution to growing food insecurity in Africa. A striking omission in this agenda is any consideration of the dimensions and determinants of urban food security. In Southern African towns and cities, lack of access to food is key to the food insecurity of poor urban households. This article reviews the current state of knowledge about the food sources of such house…
Migrancy and Militance
Journal Article MIGRANCY AND MILITANCE: THE CASE OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF MINEWORKERS OF SOUTH AFRICA Get access JONATHAN CRUSH JONATHAN CRUSH The author is a Canada Research Fellow in the Geography Department of Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. He wishes to thank Alan Jeeves, Jean Leger, Wilmot James and David Yudelman for their assistance, and the SSHRC of Canada for its research support. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Power and surveillance on the South African gold mines
(1992). Power and surveillance on the South African gold mines. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 825-844
Informalized containment
Policy responses to the growth of the informal food sector in African cities vary from benign neglect to active destruction. The eradication of street food vending is the dominant mode of governance. Alternative approaches that recognize the inevitability of informality and the role of the sector in making food accessible to the urban poor have begun to emerge. One is an enclose-and-contain model that creates spaces for trading and seeks to confi…
Contesting Migrancy
Jonathan Crush, Clarence Tshitereke, Contesting Migrancy: The Foreign Labor Debate in Post-1994 South Africa, Africa Today, Vol. 48, No. 3, Evaluating South African Immigration Policy after Apartheid (Autumn, 2001), pp. 49-70
The discourse of progressive human geography
Another Lost Decade
Despite the political and social transformation set in motion by the collapse of apartheid and the advent of democracy in 1994, South Africa's migration policy remained mired in the past. The Aliens Control Act of 1991 continued to govern the country's policy until the passage of the Immigration Act of 2002. After amendment in 2004, the Act finally came into force in July 2005. This paper focuses on the implications for South Africa and the SADC …
A Report on Gender Discrimination in South Africa's 2002 Immigration Act
Changes in immigration policy and legislation have the power to shape and alter the gendering of migration in significant ways, and can have a dramatic effect on the lives and relationships of the men, women and families involved. In this paper, we examine the provisions of the new Immigration Act introduced in South Africa in 2002. The Act, which replaces the outdated Aliens Control Act of 1991, gives considerable cause for concern on gender gro…
Settler-Estate Production, Monopoly Control, and the Imperial Response
On Theorizing Frontier Underdevelopment
National Parks in Africa
The growth and development of an international national parks movement has provided Africa with a powerful impetus for devoting increased attention and funding to the preservation of natural African habitats and the conservation of indigenous floral and faunal stock (Lamprey, 1969; Olindo, 1974; Nelson et al., 1978). The political, social and economic dynamics of independent Africa, however, are providing their own set of counter forces to the es…
The Colonial Division of Space
The question of land alienation in the settler state has recently experienced something of a resurgence of interest among students of the African past. While some are content with the orthodoxy of conventional historical analytical frameworks, others seek new insights within political economy paradigms.1 The latter approach and its attendant conceptual formulations has not, as yet, diffused sufficiently to shed new light on the Swaziland case.2 N…
Decolonizing the Human Geography of Southern Africa
The Southern African Regional Formation
New Wave African Historiography and African Historical Geography
From Chattel to Wage Slavery
The Southern African Pleasure Periphery, 1966-83
Both Lesotho and Swaziland possess a well-developed rhetoric advocating disengagement from South Africa, exemplified most recently in their joint commitment to the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference. Nevertheless, both countries remain firmly fastened to their dominant neighbour and committed to development strategies which tend to perpetuate such ties. The implications of continued social and economic domination by South Afric…
Books/Livres
Any Space for Apartheid
Landlords, tenants and colonial social engineers
A pervasive feature of colonial conquest in southern Africa was the expropriation of large tracts of land and productive resources by, or on behalf of, white settlers. With the acquisition of land as private property came a degree of control over the residents of that land. 1 In exchange for rights of occupancy landowners generally demanded various forms of rent or service, in accordance with their own changing needs. Thus, despite the inexorable…
Capitalist homoficience, the frontier and uneven development in Southern Africa
Swazi migrant workers and the Witwatersrand gold mines 1886–1920
Towards a people's historical geography for South Africa
The extrusion of foreign labour from the South African gold mining industry
Struggle for Swazi Labour, 1890-1920
The period 1890 - 1920 was characterized by the increasing domination of white over black in southern Africa and the associated expansion of a regional capitalist economy. Many largely self-sufficient African societies became heavily dependent on migrant wage labour and purchased food. These changes, together with the alienation of land for white settlement, transformed rural society, greatly accelerating the impoverishment of most Africans
Tin, Time, and Space in the Valley of Heaven
merely intensified the conflict between labour and capital on the mines. This paper pursues a line of questioning about timediscipline in the Third World suggested, but not developed, by Edward Thompson. It does so with particular reference to the small-scale, under-capitalized tin mining industry of colonial Swaziland. It demonstrates that the battle over the allocation and use of time was intensified not simply by the workers' prior obligations…
A history of the African people of South Africa
Old modes of production and capitalist encroachment
Migrancy and Militance
Journal Article MIGRANCY AND MILITANCE: THE CASE OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF MINEWORKERS OF SOUTH AFRICA Get access JONATHAN CRUSH JONATHAN CRUSH The author is a Canada Research Fellow in the Geography Department of Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. He wishes to thank Alan Jeeves, Jean Leger, Wilmot James and David Yudelman for their assistance, and the SSHRC of Canada for its research support. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
The Struggle for Swazi Labour, 1890-1920
The Struggle for Swazi Labour, 1890-1920
Although the results of colonial expansion have been described in other general studies of the region, this is the first book to take a close look at the case of the Swazi in Swaziland. Jonathan Crush shows that while the Swazi experienced many of the classic problems of underdevelopment, there were also a number of significant differences. For example, traditional relationships between chiefs and commoners showed much greater resilience than els…
The Struggle for Swazi Labour, 1890-1920
Monitoring the Crisis
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