Nervous Conditions on the Limpopo
Gendered Insecurities, Livelihoods, and Zimbabwean Migrants in Northern South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12967407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Rutherford (0000-0003-4066-7099, Carleton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 2020 |
| Issue | 14 |
| Pages | 169-187 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Social Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1911-4788 • E-ISSN: 1911-4788 |
| Publisher | Brock University Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.26522/ssj.v2020i14.1869 |
| OpenAlex | W3013324356 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 18 |
This paper examines some of the gendered insecurities informing some of the livelihood practices of Zimbabwean migrants in northern South Africa from 2004-2011, the period in which I carried out almost annual ethnographic research in this region. Situating these practices within wider policy shifts and changing migration patterns at the national and local scales, this paper shows the importance of attending to gendered dependencies and insecurities when analysing migrant livelihoods in southern Africa. These include those found within humanitarian organizations targeting Zimbabwean migrants in their programs and policies in the border area. These gendered insecurities, which are woven into the fabric of travel, work and accommodation for these migrant Zimbabwean women in northern South Africa, should be examined in struggles for social justice. By drawing on the lens of social critique to engender a wider sense of the social justice needs for Zimbabwean women migrants in South Africa, this essay aims to broaden the focus of activism on women migrants to also attend to gendered insecurities in their everyday economic and shelter-seeking activities
Accommodation · Criminology · Economic growth · Ethnography · Geography · Livelihood · Political science · Social justice · Socioeconomics · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Migration and Labor Dynamics
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Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks
Go Home or Die Here
Zimbabwe's Migrants and South Africa's Border Farms
Opening a Dialogue on Migrant (Rights) Activism
The Politics of Boundaries
Introduction. Displacing Zimbabwe
An unsettled belonging
Seeking Solidarity
Humanitarian aid beyond “bare survival
Beyond Control
Loving the alien? Citizenship, law, and the future in South Africa's demonic society
Mediated Paternalism and Violent Incorporation
Medical Xenophobia and Zimbabwean Migrant Access to Public Health Services in South Africa
Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent
Beyond good and evil
The Sexual Economy, Gender Relations and Narratives of Infant Death on a Tomato Farm inNorthernSouthAfrica
Declarations of dependence
The uneasy ties of working and belonging
The third wave
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |