Gender and Mobility in Africa: Borders, Bodies and Boundaries

Book Overview

1. Introduction: Gender and Mobility in Africa: Historical and contemporary perspectives: Reflections and Possibilities
2. Why were the Women left behind? Chinese and Indian Migration in the Indian Ocean Region: A Historical Perspective
3. The migration of women in Tunisia: between tradition and modernity
4. (Re-) negotiating gender identity among Zimbabwean female Pentecostal migrants in South Africa
5. The need of a dialogical approach to narrative research. The case of Somali migrant women living in Johannesburg
6. Migration, mobilities and families: comparative views among Congolese, Burundian and Zimbabwean female refugees
7. Negotiating Culture and Responses to Domestic Violence in South Africa: Migrant Women and Service Providers' Narratives
8. "Who I am depends on who I am talking to"
9. Between Prosecutors and Counselors: State and Non-State Actors in the Rehabilitation of Victims of Human Trafficking in Nigeria 10. Crossing borders, present futures: A study of the life histories of pakistani immigrants in Durban
11. Migration of Senegalese women to Morocco: what do we learn from a gender perspective?
12. Mobile Women: negotiating gendered social norms, stereotypes and relationships
13. Social Control in Transnational Families: Somali Women and Dignity in Johannesburg
14. Voices on Mothering in the Margins: African Women in Europe online space in focus?
15. Cross-border networking and identity integration: exploring the experiences of Nigerian women immigrants in Cote d'Ivoire
16. Conclusion

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303009748X
• ISBN13: 9783030097486
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"