Gender and Mobility in Africa Borders, Bodies and Boundaries /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hiralal, Kalpana (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Jinnah, Zaheera (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Emigration and immigration.; Gender identity.; Africa-History.; Ethnography.; Identity politics.; Migration.; Gender and Sexuality.; African History.; Politics and Gender.

This volume examines gender and mobility in Africa though the central themes of borders, bodies and identity. It explores perceptions and engagements around 'borders'; the ways in which 'bodies' and women's bodies in particular, shape and are affected by mobility, and the ma...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.