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Author Kihato, Caroline, author.

Title Migrant women of Johannesburg : everyday life in an in-between city / Caroline Wanjiku Kihato.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations, maps.
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series Africa connects
Africa connects.
Contents Introduction: welcome to Hillbrow, you will find your people here -- Here I am nobody: rethinking urban governance, in the age of mobility -- Between Pharaoh's army and the Red Sea: social mobility and social death in the context of women's migration -- Turning the home inside-out - private space and everyday politics -- The station, camp and refugee: xenophobic violence and the city -- Conclusion: ways of seeing: migrant women in the liminal city.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Women immigrants -- South Africa -- Johannesburg -- Social conditions.
Immigrants -- South Africa -- Johannesburg -- Social conditions.
Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Emigration and immigration.
Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kihato, Caroline. Migrant women of Johannesburg : everyday life in an in-between city. New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 xx, 174 pages ; 23 cm. Africa connects 9781137299963 (DLC)10857611
ISBN 9781137299963
9781137299970 (e-book)

 
    
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