Through rich stories of African migrant women in Johannesburg, this book explores the
experience of living between geographies. Author Caroline Kihato draws on fieldwork and …

Waiting is a common feature of everyday encounters between individuals and organisations.
Government officials and private sector workers make us wait for decisions, wait for services …

ABSTRACT In South Africa, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA)-the department charged
with managing migration-has struggled to control growing migration flows, particularly the …

32 CONTEMPORARY MIGRATION TO SOUTH AFRICA the postapartheid period, such
arrangements were under mounting popular and union pressure for redress of the legacy of …

During the past two decades South Africa has increasingly become a host society for many
forcibly displaced families from across the sub-Saharan region. This article draws on some …

Although many refugees leave their home countries with a certain level of uncertainty
concerning their survival in the host country, they are hopeful of improving their livelihood …

There is growing interest in the wellbeing of refugees and particularly the strategies they
employ in their quest for improved livelihoods. This article reports on a recent study on the …

Ours is a century of migration. It has become more necessary for people to migrate than ever
before in human history due to a variety of reasons including political instability and …

Global population migration shows that, the rate at which people are moving from one
country to the other, or one region to the other, is always increasing. However, when people …

This study is about refugee integration: how refugees become citizens, and more generally
how outsiders become insiders. More specifically, it is about an appropriate conceptual …