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Gender and Mobility in Africa

Borders, Bodies and Boundaries

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Editors:
  1. Kalpana Hiralal

    1. Historical Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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  2. Zaheera Jinnah

    1. African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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  • Explores migration as both an opportunity to redefine gendered norms and as an experience of risk

  • Presents nuanced, empirically based insights on multiple forms, and functions of gender in African societies

  • Analyses the perception of boundaries, both physical and imagined, within the narrative of mobility in Africa

  • Outlines connections and disparities between forms of movements, across and beyond Africa under conditions of colonialism, apartheid and independence

  • Critiques conceptualisations of borders – national, personal and time bound – which seek to control, restrict and impose conditions and norms

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Gender and Mobility in Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

    • Kalpana Hiralal
    Pages 1-6

  3. Why Were the Women Left Behind? Chinese and Indian Migration in the Indian Ocean Region: A Historical Perspective

    • Kalpana Hiralal
    Pages 7-20

  4. The Migration of Women in Tunisia: Between Tradition and Modernity

    • Ibtihel Bouchoucha
    Pages 21-47

  5. (Re)negotiating Gender Identity Among Zimbabwean Female Pentecostal Migrants in South Africa

    • Tinashe Chimbidzikai
    Pages 49-74

  6. Migration, Mobilities and Families: Comparative Views Amongst Congolese, Burundian and Zimbabwean Female Refugees

    • Pragna Rugunanan, Ria Smit
    Pages 75-96

  7. Negotiating Culture and Responses to Domestic Violence in South Africa: Migrant Women and Service Providers’ Narratives

    • Monica Kiwanuka
    Pages 97-120

  8. ‘Who I Am Depends on Who I Am Talking To’

    • Elsa Oliveira, Jo Vearey
    Pages 121-138

  9. Between Prosecutors and Counsellors: State and Non-state Actors in the Rehabilitation of Victims of Human Trafficking in Nigeria

    • Lanre Olusegun Ikuteyijo
    Pages 139-157

  10. Crossing Borders, Present Futures: A Study of the Life Histories of Pakistani Immigrants in Durban

    • Sasha Rai
    Pages 159-174

  11. Senegalese Migrants in Morocco: From a Gender Perspective

    • Fatima Ait Ben Lmadani
    Pages 175-185

  12. Mobile Women: Negotiating Gendered Social Norms, Stereotypes and Relationships

    • Sarah Matshaka
    Pages 187-222

  13. Social Control in Transnational Families: Somali Women and Dignity in Johannesburg

    • Marnie Shaffer
    Pages 223-249

  14. Concluding Thoughts and Pathways for Future Research

    • Zaheera Jinnah
    Pages 251-256

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 257-259
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About this book

This volume examines gender and mobility in Africa though the central themes of borders, bodies and identity. It explores perceptions and engagements around ‘borders’; the ways in which ‘bodies’ and women’s bodies in particular, shape and are affected by mobility, and the making and reproduction of actual and perceived ‘boundaries’; in relation to gender norms and gendered identify.  Over fourteen original chapters it makes revealing contributions to the field of migration and gender studies. Combining historical and contemporary perspectives on mobility in Africa, this project contextualises migration within a broad historical framework, creating a conceptual and narrative framework that resists post-colonial boundaries of thought on the subject matter. This multidisciplinary work uses divergent methodologies including ethnography, archival data collection, life histories and narratives and multi-country survey level data and engages with a range of conceptual frameworks to examine the complex forms and outcomes of mobility on the continent today. Contributions include a range of case studies from across the continent, which relate either conceptually or methodologically to the central question of gender identity and relations within migratory frameworks in Africa. This book will appeal to researchers and scholars of politics, history, anthropology, sociology and international relations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Historical Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

    Kalpana Hiralal

  • African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Zaheera Jinnah

About the editors

Kalpana Hiralal is Associate Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

Zaheera Jinnah is an anthropologist and researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwaterstrand, Johannesburg, Africa, and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender and Mobility in Africa

  • Book Subtitle: Borders, Bodies and Boundaries

  • Editors: Kalpana Hiralal, Zaheera Jinnah

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65783-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65782-0Published: 20 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09748-6Published: 26 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65783-7Published: 10 July 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 259

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Migration, Gender and Sexuality, African History, Ethnography, Politics and Gender

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