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Title: | Mean streets: migration, xenophobia and informality in South Africa |
Editors: | Crush, Jonathan Chikanda, Abel Skinner, Caroline |
Year: | 2015 |
Pages: | 287 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Rondebosch |
Publisher: | Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP) |
ISBN: | 1920596119; 9781920596118 |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | migrants xenophobia informal sector entrepreneurs refugees urban economy retail trade |
Abstract: | This edited volume argues that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the informal economies of several major cities in South Africa are migrants and refugees. The contributors examine socio-economic issues of employment, rent-paying and xenophobia through case studies such as agglomeration economies in Johannesburg, networks of Chinese entrepreneurs, Somali shop owners and cross-border Zimbabwean informal traders. Contributions: Migrant entrepreneurship and informality in South African cities (J. Crush, A. Chikanda, C. Skinner); Doing business with xenophobia (J. Crush, S. Ramachandran); Making an area hot: interrupting trade in an ethnic enclave in Johannesburg's inner city (T. Zack); A transnational space of business: the informal economy of Ivory Park, Johannesburg (A. Charman, L. Petersen); Resilience and innovation: migrant spaza shop entrepreneurs in Soweto, Johannesburg (T. Gumbo); The role of economic factors and 'Guanxi' networks in the success of Chinese shops in Johannesburg (L. Willemse); On the move: Cameroonian migrants in Durban (A. Tafuh, P. Maharaj); Refugees and asylum seekers in Cape Town's informal economy (M. Northcote, B. Dodson); The role of migrant traders in local economies: a case study of Somali spaza shops in Cape Town (V. Gastrow, R. Amit); The role of networks and herd behaviour in the entrepreneurial activity and success of African migrants in South Africa (R. Tengeh); The 'Malayisha' industry and the transnational movement of remittances to Zimbabwe (V. Thebe); Transnational entrepreneurship and informal cross-border trade with South Africa (S. Peberdy, et al.); Unpacking national policy towards the urban informal economy (C. M. Rogerson). [ASC Leiden abstract] |