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Running ahead : Zimbabwean women navigating precarity in Johannesburg /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nyarhi, Thelma N. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, [2023]
Subjects:
Zimbabweans > South Africa > Johannesburg > Social conditions.
Women immigrants > South Africa > Johannesburg > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Foreword
  • Chapter 1
  • Introduction and background
  • Migration in Zimbabwe
  • Gendered Migration
  • Conceptual framework: Incompleteness and Trying
  • Organization of the book
  • Chapter 2
  • Becoming a runner
  • Introduction
  • Playing in the shadows: Shadowing as a methodology
  • The Field Site: Benoni- Johannesburg CBD, Gauteng Province
  • Plunging-in: Entering the field
  • Being the subject: Ethical dilemmas in the field
  • Summary conclusion
  • Chapter 3
  • Chasing dreams amid nightmares
  • Introduction
  • Making sense of space: Common strangers in the city
  • Telling her story: Vulnerabilities of migrant women
  • Motherhood amidst uncertainty
  • Summary conclusion
  • Chapter 4
  • Navigating borders and boundaries
  • Introduction
  • Readjustment: Living outside nostalgia
  • Navigating spatiotemporalities
  • "Ngwarisa mwana waMai"
  • (Be clever my kin)
  • Fluidity in spatiotemporalities
  • Summary conclusion
  • Chapter 5
  • Looming dangers
  • the invisible and visible pains
  • Introduction
  • Tracking shadows
  • The Mirrored self
  • The violence's within
  • The invisible and visible scars
  • Fear as a constant
  • Anxiety as a constant
  • Summary conclusion
  • Chapter 6
  • Conclusion
  • An Orb of possibilities
  • Bibliography
  • Back cover