Migrant Labour After Apartheid: The Inside Story Edited by Leslie Bank, Dorrit Posel, Francis Wilson

ISBN: 9780796925794

HSRC Press, 2020

Paperback, 404 pages

A large portion of South Africa's population remains double rooted―many South Africans live in an urban area, but also have access to a rural homestead to which they periodically return and often retire. The authors of Migrant Labour After Apartheid explore this rural-urban reality, showing that internal migrancy continues to have profound impacts on social cohesion, family life, gender relations, household investment, settlement dynamics, and the formation of political identity.
CONTENTS:

• Introduction: Migrant Labour After Apartheid―the Editors.
• MIGRATION AND URBANISATION AFTER APARTHEID.
• Measuring Labour Migration After Apartheid: Patterns and Trends―D. Posel.
• Rural-Urban Migration as a Means of Getting Ahead―J. Visagie and I. Turok.
• Accessing the City: Informal Settlements as Staging Posts for Urbanisation in post-Apartheid South Africa―C. Ndinda and T. Ndhlovu.
• What Does Labour Migration Mean for Families? Children's Mobility in the Context of Maternal Migration―K. Hall and D. Posel.
• Distance and Duality: Migration, Family, and the Meaning of Home for Eastern Cape Migrants―M. Makiwane and N.A. Gumede.
• KwaMashu Hostel: Rural-Urban Interconnections in KwaZulu-Natal―N. Xulu-Gama.
• From "Living Wage" to "Family Wage:" Platinum Lives and the Contemporary Mineworkers' Movement (2012–17)―L. Sinwell.
• Migrant Women in South Africa's Platinum Belt: Negotiating Different Conceptions of Femininities―A.-J. Benya.
• How Labour Migration Works in the Space Economy: Labour Markets, Migration Tracks, and Homelessness as an Indicator of Failure―C. Cross et al.
• Marikana Revisited: Migrant Culture, Ethnicity, and African Nationalism in South Africa―L.J. Bank.
• DOUBLE-ROOTEDNESS AND RURAL REGIMES OF VALUE.
• Agricultural Production, the Household "Development Cycle" and Migrant Remittances: Continuities and Change in the Eastern Cape Hinterland―M. Rogan.
• Migrancy and the Differentiated Agrarian Landscapes: Land Use, Farming and the Reproduction of the Homestead in the Eastern Cape―P. Hebinck.
• Cattle after Migrant Labour: Emerging Markets and Changing Regimes of Value in Rural South Africa―L.J. Bank and M. Kenyon.
• Double-Rooted Families: The Circulation of Hidden Resources Between Urban and Rural South Africa―A. Perry.
• Displaced Urbanism: City Shack Life and the Citizenship of the Suburban House in the Rural Transkei―L.J. Bank.
• Changing Small-Town Economies in the Eastern Cape―M. Aliber and N.B. Nikelo.
• Harnessing the Ancestors: Uncertainty and Ritual Practice in the Eastern Cape―A. Ainslie.
• Entangled in Patriarchy: Migrants, Men, and Matrifocality After Apartheid―L.J. Bank.