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OverviewThrough rich stories of African migrant women in Johannesburg, this book explores the experience of living between geographies. Author Caroline Kihato draws on fieldwork and analysis to examine the everyday lives of those inhabiting a fluid location between multiple worlds, suspended between their original home and an imagined future elsewhere. Full Product DetailsAuthor: C. KihatoPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 3.501kg ISBN: 9781137299963ISBN 10: 1137299967 Pages: 174 Publication Date: 07 November 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"1. ""Welcome to Hillbrow; you will find your people here"" 2. ""Here I am nobody:"" Rethinking Urban Governance in the Age of Mobility 3. Between Pharaoh's Army and the Red Sea: Social Mobility and Social Death in the Context of Women's Migration 4. Turning the Home Inside-Out: Private Space and Everyday Politics 5. The Station, Camp, and Refugee: Xenophobic Violence and the City 6. Ways of Seeing: Migrant Women in the Liminal City"Reviewsto come Author InformationCaroline Wanjiku Kihato is a Visiting Researcher at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. In 2011, she received a MacArthur grant on Migration and Development and spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM), Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. Her career has involved both teaching and conducting research in the academy and the non-profit sector in South Africa. Between 2006 and 2013 she worked for Urban LandMark as its southern African program coordinator. She was previously a Policy Analyst at the Development Bank of Southern Africa and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. She worked for six years as a Policy Analyst at the Centre for Policy Studies. Her research and teaching interests are migration, gender, governance and urbanization in the global South. She holds a MSc in Development Planning (University of the Witwatersrand) and a PhD in Sociology (University of South Africa). Kihato writes and has published widely on urbanization for both academic and popular audiences. She is the co-editor of Urban Diversity: Space, Culture and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide (2010). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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