Migrant Women of Johannesburg

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Welcome to Hillbrow, You Will Find Your People Here

   • Caroline Wanjiku Kihato

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3. The Notice: Rethinking Urban Governance in the Age of Mobility

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4. Between Pharaoh’s Army and the Red Sea: Social Mobility and Social Death in the Context of Women’s Migration

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5. Turning the Home Inside-Out—Private Space and Everyday Politics

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6. The Station, Camp, and Refugee: Xenophobic Violence and the City

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7. Conclusion: Ways of Seeing—Migrant Women in the Liminal City

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8. Back Matter

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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 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.

• migration
• mobility
• politics
• violence
• women

to come

Caroline 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).

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