Henrietta Nyamnjoh
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 258031 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Henrietta Nyamnjoh |
| PRENOMES | Henrietta |
| SOBRENOME | Nyamnjoh |
| ASSINATURA | NYAMNJOH H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
I wish I had listened and not come to South Africa
Migration studies often focus on the socio-political and economic factors that drive people to migrate, overlooking the fantasies and processes involved in actualising the journey. This paper examines unaccompanied Ethiopian child migrants in South Africa, using the concept of fantasy to understand the preparatory processes of migration and their realisation. It argues that fantasies of future expectations and self-enhancement propel individuals …
Apportioned city
This paper addresses what it means to live with acutely restricted access to the city in the process of seeking urban asylum in post-apartheid South Africa. Our concept of apportionment specifies the gendered and racialised diminishment of space and time in the context of exclusionary and everyday violence. We focus on how the delineation and reduction of space and time is feminised, through the working lives of refugee and asylum-seeking women f…
Precarity, Permits, and Prayers
This paper provides an ethnographic reading of how Congolese women, in particular aslyum seekers with temporary permits, navigate Cape Town's informal urban economy. We argue that the intersections of temporary permit status and gender, as well as the particularities of diaspora flows and settlements, compound the precarity of everyday life. We engage with how precarity shapes and is shaped by what we define as 'working practices.' These practice…
Language Practices as Religious Innovation
In the authors’ recent case-study research of migrant-dominated Pentecostal charismatic churches (PCCs) in the South African cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town, language emerged as a prominent feature of religious practice, suggesting a positive correlation between experiences of xenophobia and religious innovation. This perspective is developed through the identification and discussion of two interlinked themes that surfaced from a closer anal…
Innovation or Competition? A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Divine Healing Practices of Pentecostal Africans in Africa and the Diaspora
This article examines current practices of divine healing of Pentecostal Africans. It provides insights into current developments by using the explanatory concepts of innovation, competition, and agency. The article draws on data obtained through an interdisciplinary, transnational, and multisite investigation of eight Pentecostal churches in Kampala, Nairobi, Cape Town, and London. Methods used included ethnographic observation, visual ethnograp…
World Christianity
Ethnographic research has tended to be driven by traditional research methods—such as observation and interviews—to the exclusion of using visual sources of data. These can include illustrations or photographs, which are generally utilized by visual anthropologists. World Christianity has been the subject of social science research; however, analysis tends to be based on traditional ethnographic research methods. Through an analysis of personal i…
Ambitions of Bushfalling through Further Education
Following a surge in civil unrest, the need and ambitions to migrate have increased among young Cameroonians. This article explores how Cameroonian youth and graduates use education as a gateway for migration, selecting new routes and destinations to maximise their chances of migration. Drawing on in-depth interviews with aspiring migrants, I show that long-standing aspirations to migrate have led to a symbiotic relationship between aspiring migr…
Remittance micro‐worlds and migrant infrastructure
Remittances are increasingly central to development discourses in Africa. The development sector seeks to leverage transnational migration and rapid innovations in financial technologies (fintech), to make remittance systems cheaper for end‐users and less risky for states and companies. Critical scholarship, however, questions the techno‐fix tendency, calling for grounded research on the intersections between remittances, technologies, and everyd…
Entrepreneurialism and innovation among Cameroonian street vendors in Cape Town
Following the economic destabilization that resulted from the implementation of structural adjustment programmes, many young Cameroonians decided to leave their country to find ways to make a living abroad. These migrants often arrived in host countries with expectations of settling in and getting by, with scant knowledge of and little regard for the challenges that awaited them. This article focuses on migrants’ economic activities, particularly…
Food, memory and transnational gastronomic culture amongst Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town, South Africa
In the context of accelerated mobility and migration, food forms part of peoples' historical identity and emotional repertoire. Drawing on ethnographic research amongst Anglophone Cameroonian migrants living in Cape Town, South Africa, this paper explores how Cameroonian migrants maintain their gastronomic culture in Cape Town such that ethnic foods and food parcels mark migrants' identities and socio-cultural lives in the host country. Special o…
Navigating ‘ngunda’/‘adoro’ and negotiating economic uncertainty amongst mobile Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town (South Africa)
Using the concept of ontological (in)security, this paper examines how Cameroonian Anglophone migrants in Cape Town negotiate and mitigate the loss of ontological security through asylum-seeking and engaging in economic activities, as well as connecting ancestrally in the metaphysical world. Based on qualitative research, the paper explores and analyses the creative ways in which these groups of migrants are able to circumnavigate the challenges …
Do you eat Achu here? Nurturing as a way of life in a Cameroon diaspora
Earlier studies on migration were largely dominated by the study of the determinants of migration, with economic theories being at the fore in explaining this phenomenon. Our focus instead will be on the life-cultivating practices that migrants associate with ‘home societies’ and wish to maintain in host societies. Rather than pursue the darker side of ‘biopolitics’, we focus instead on the domestication of nurtured life and the privatization of …
Remittance micro‐worlds and migrant infrastructure
Remittances are increasingly central to development discourses in Africa. The development sector seeks to leverage transnational migration and rapid innovations in financial technologies (fintech), to make remittance systems cheaper for end‐users and less risky for states and companies. Critical scholarship, however, questions the techno‐fix tendency, calling for grounded research on the intersections between remittances, technologies, and everyd…
Food, memory and transnational gastronomic culture amongst Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town, South Africa
In the context of accelerated mobility and migration, food forms part of peoples' historical identity and emotional repertoire. Drawing on ethnographic research amongst Anglophone Cameroonian migrants living in Cape Town, South Africa, this paper explores how Cameroonian migrants maintain their gastronomic culture in Cape Town such that ethnic foods and food parcels mark migrants' identities and socio-cultural lives in the host country. Special o…
Navigating ‘ngunda’/‘adoro’ and negotiating economic uncertainty amongst mobile Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town (South Africa)
Using the concept of ontological (in)security, this paper examines how Cameroonian Anglophone migrants in Cape Town negotiate and mitigate the loss of ontological security through asylum-seeking and engaging in economic activities, as well as connecting ancestrally in the metaphysical world. Based on qualitative research, the paper explores and analyses the creative ways in which these groups of migrants are able to circumnavigate the challenges …
Precarity, Permits, and Prayers
This paper provides an ethnographic reading of how Congolese women, in particular aslyum seekers with temporary permits, navigate Cape Town's informal urban economy. We argue that the intersections of temporary permit status and gender, as well as the particularities of diaspora flows and settlements, compound the precarity of everyday life. We engage with how precarity shapes and is shaped by what we define as 'working practices.' These practice…
Ambitions of Bushfalling through Further Education
Following a surge in civil unrest, the need and ambitions to migrate have increased among young Cameroonians. This article explores how Cameroonian youth and graduates use education as a gateway for migration, selecting new routes and destinations to maximise their chances of migration. Drawing on in-depth interviews with aspiring migrants, I show that long-standing aspirations to migrate have led to a symbiotic relationship between aspiring migr…
Do you eat Achu here? Nurturing as a way of life in a Cameroon diaspora
Earlier studies on migration were largely dominated by the study of the determinants of migration, with economic theories being at the fore in explaining this phenomenon. Our focus instead will be on the life-cultivating practices that migrants associate with ‘home societies’ and wish to maintain in host societies. Rather than pursue the darker side of ‘biopolitics’, we focus instead on the domestication of nurtured life and the privatization of …
I wish I had listened and not come to South Africa
Migration studies often focus on the socio-political and economic factors that drive people to migrate, overlooking the fantasies and processes involved in actualising the journey. This paper examines unaccompanied Ethiopian child migrants in South Africa, using the concept of fantasy to understand the preparatory processes of migration and their realisation. It argues that fantasies of future expectations and self-enhancement propel individuals …
Apportioned city
This paper addresses what it means to live with acutely restricted access to the city in the process of seeking urban asylum in post-apartheid South Africa. Our concept of apportionment specifies the gendered and racialised diminishment of space and time in the context of exclusionary and everyday violence. We focus on how the delineation and reduction of space and time is feminised, through the working lives of refugee and asylum-seeking women f…
Entrepreneurialism and innovation among Cameroonian street vendors in Cape Town
Following the economic destabilization that resulted from the implementation of structural adjustment programmes, many young Cameroonians decided to leave their country to find ways to make a living abroad. These migrants often arrived in host countries with expectations of settling in and getting by, with scant knowledge of and little regard for the challenges that awaited them. This article focuses on migrants’ economic activities, particularly…
Do you eat Achu here? Nurturing as a way of life in a Cameroon diaspora
Earlier studies on migration were largely dominated by the study of the determinants of migration, with economic theories being at the fore in explaining this phenomenon. Our focus instead will be on the life-cultivating practices that migrants associate with ‘home societies’ and wish to maintain in host societies. Rather than pursue the darker side of ‘biopolitics’, we focus instead on the domestication of nurtured life and the privatization of …
Navigating ‘ngunda’/‘adoro’ and negotiating economic uncertainty amongst mobile Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town (South Africa)
Using the concept of ontological (in)security, this paper examines how Cameroonian Anglophone migrants in Cape Town negotiate and mitigate the loss of ontological security through asylum-seeking and engaging in economic activities, as well as connecting ancestrally in the metaphysical world. Based on qualitative research, the paper explores and analyses the creative ways in which these groups of migrants are able to circumnavigate the challenges …
Food, memory and transnational gastronomic culture amongst Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town, South Africa
In the context of accelerated mobility and migration, food forms part of peoples' historical identity and emotional repertoire. Drawing on ethnographic research amongst Anglophone Cameroonian migrants living in Cape Town, South Africa, this paper explores how Cameroonian migrants maintain their gastronomic culture in Cape Town such that ethnic foods and food parcels mark migrants' identities and socio-cultural lives in the host country. Special o…
Entrepreneurialism and innovation among Cameroonian street vendors in Cape Town
Following the economic destabilization that resulted from the implementation of structural adjustment programmes, many young Cameroonians decided to leave their country to find ways to make a living abroad. These migrants often arrived in host countries with expectations of settling in and getting by, with scant knowledge of and little regard for the challenges that awaited them. This article focuses on migrants’ economic activities, particularly…
Language Practices as Religious Innovation
In the authors’ recent case-study research of migrant-dominated Pentecostal charismatic churches (PCCs) in the South African cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town, language emerged as a prominent feature of religious practice, suggesting a positive correlation between experiences of xenophobia and religious innovation. This perspective is developed through the identification and discussion of two interlinked themes that surfaced from a closer anal…
Innovation or Competition? A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Divine Healing Practices of Pentecostal Africans in Africa and the Diaspora
This article examines current practices of divine healing of Pentecostal Africans. It provides insights into current developments by using the explanatory concepts of innovation, competition, and agency. The article draws on data obtained through an interdisciplinary, transnational, and multisite investigation of eight Pentecostal churches in Kampala, Nairobi, Cape Town, and London. Methods used included ethnographic observation, visual ethnograp…
World Christianity
Ethnographic research has tended to be driven by traditional research methods—such as observation and interviews—to the exclusion of using visual sources of data. These can include illustrations or photographs, which are generally utilized by visual anthropologists. World Christianity has been the subject of social science research; however, analysis tends to be based on traditional ethnographic research methods. Through an analysis of personal i…
Ambitions of Bushfalling through Further Education
Following a surge in civil unrest, the need and ambitions to migrate have increased among young Cameroonians. This article explores how Cameroonian youth and graduates use education as a gateway for migration, selecting new routes and destinations to maximise their chances of migration. Drawing on in-depth interviews with aspiring migrants, I show that long-standing aspirations to migrate have led to a symbiotic relationship between aspiring migr…
Remittance micro‐worlds and migrant infrastructure
Remittances are increasingly central to development discourses in Africa. The development sector seeks to leverage transnational migration and rapid innovations in financial technologies (fintech), to make remittance systems cheaper for end‐users and less risky for states and companies. Critical scholarship, however, questions the techno‐fix tendency, calling for grounded research on the intersections between remittances, technologies, and everyd…
Apportioned city
This paper addresses what it means to live with acutely restricted access to the city in the process of seeking urban asylum in post-apartheid South Africa. Our concept of apportionment specifies the gendered and racialised diminishment of space and time in the context of exclusionary and everyday violence. We focus on how the delineation and reduction of space and time is feminised, through the working lives of refugee and asylum-seeking women f…
Precarity, Permits, and Prayers
This paper provides an ethnographic reading of how Congolese women, in particular aslyum seekers with temporary permits, navigate Cape Town's informal urban economy. We argue that the intersections of temporary permit status and gender, as well as the particularities of diaspora flows and settlements, compound the precarity of everyday life. We engage with how precarity shapes and is shaped by what we define as 'working practices.' These practice…
I wish I had listened and not come to South Africa
Migration studies often focus on the socio-political and economic factors that drive people to migrate, overlooking the fantasies and processes involved in actualising the journey. This paper examines unaccompanied Ethiopian child migrants in South Africa, using the concept of fantasy to understand the preparatory processes of migration and their realisation. It argues that fantasies of future expectations and self-enhancement propel individuals …
Sociology (12 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 obras) · Anthropology (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Diaspora (4 obras) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 obras)