Description
Book SynopsisFocuses on internal migrants and migration. The book cautions against a linear narrative of change and urban transition. It investigates urbanisation processes from the perspective of internal migration, and explores the double rootedness of migrants through the lens of the rural hinterland from which migration often occurs.
Trade ReviewThis book is a pioneering effort to advance [the] understanding of enduring circular labour migrancy. Its originality, depth, and clarity make it required reading for those in universities, government, business, and civil society who wish to address this socially entrenched, yet constantly changing, feature of South African society.
Table of Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1.Introduction: Migrant labour after apartheid — Leslie Bank, Dorrit Posel and Francis Wilson
- Part 1: Migration and urbanisation after apartheid
- 2.Measuring labour migration after apartheid: Patterns and trends — Dorrit Posel
- 3.Rural–urban migration as a means of getting ahead — Justin Visagie and Ivan Turok
- 4.Informal settlements as staging posts for urbanisation in post-apartheid South Africa — Catherine Ndinda and Tidings Ndhlovu
- 5.What does labour migration mean for families? Children’s mobility in the context ofmaternal migration — Katharine Hall and Dorrit Posel
- 6.Distance and duality: Migration, family and the meaning of home for Eastern Capemigrants — Monde Makiwane and Ntombizonke A Gumede
- 7.KwaMashu Hostel: Rural–urban interconnections in KwaZulu-Natal — Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama
- 8.From ‘living wage’ to ‘family wage’: Platinum lives and the contemporary mineworkers’movement (2012–2017) — Luke Sinwell
- 9.Migrant women in South Africa’s platinum belt: Negotiating different conceptions offemininities — Asanda-Jonas Benya
- 10.How labour migration works in the space economy: Labour markets, migration tracks andhomelessness as an indicator of failure in Marikana — Catherine Cross, Catherine Ndinda, S Joseph Makola and Nthabiseng Sello
- 11.Marikana revisited: Migrant culture, ethnicity and African nationalism in South Africa — Leslie Bank
- Part 2: Double-rootedness and rural regimes of value
- 12.Agricultural production, the household ‘development cycle’ and migrant remittances: Continuities and change in the Eastern Cape hinterland — Michael Rogan
- 13.Migrancy and the differentiated agrarian landscapes: Land use, farming and the reproduction of the homestead in the Eastern Cape — Paul Hebinck
- 14.Cattle after migrant labour: Emerging markets and changing regimes of value in rural South Africa — Leslie Bank and Mike Kenyon
- 15.Double-rooted families: The circulation of hidden resources between urban and rural South Africa — Adam Perry
- 16.Displaced urbanism: City shack life and the citizenship of the suburban house in the rural Transkei — Leslie Bank
- 17.Changing small-town economies in the Eastern Cape – Michael Aliber and Nqaba B Nikelo
- 18.Harnessing the ancestors: Uncertainty and ritual practice in the Eastern Cape — Andrew Ainslie
- 19.Entangled in patriarchy: Migrants, men and matrifocality after apartheid — Leslie Bank
- About the authors
- Index
