Childhood and children's migration in the era of Covid‐19

A case study of Zimbabwean children/young people's migration to South Africa

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ID7149575
AuthorsRoda Madziva (0000-0003-2485-787X, School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Nottingham Nottingham UK, corresponding author), Innocent T Mahiya (0000-0001-5780-5238, Women's University in Africa), Innocent Mahiya (Department of Sociology Women's University in Africa Harare Zimbabwe), Chamunogwa Nyoni (Department of Social Work Bindura University of Science Education Bindura Zimbabwe)
Year2025
Volume39
Issue3
Pages670-685
Publication date2025-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChildren & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0951-0605 • E-ISSN: 1099-0860
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/chso.12680
PMID36718407
OpenAlexW4312081032
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited30

This paper draws on research with a group of Zimbabwean orphaned young people. It explores their experiences of migrating to South Africa during the COVID‐19 period when official borders were closed. It draws attention to the complexities of south–south migration in the era of COVID‐19 in a way that situates the orphaned child migrants as having contradictory, fluid identities that are simultaneously victimised, agentic and infinitely more complex than the dominant binary representation of adult/child

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Geography · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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