Contested Migration Tswana Women "Running Away" from the "Land of the Desert" /

• Main Author: Cockerton, Camilla May (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Emigration and immigration.; Human geography.; Identity politics.; Africa-History.; Migration.; Human Geography.; Politics and Gender.; African History.

The migrant has been designated the central or defining figure of the 20th and 21st centuries. For much of this period, research and theory have centred on adult men as representative, ignoring women's part in international migration. Similarly, in Botswana, most history books on migration focu...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Chapter 2 - Women "Runaways"
• Chapter 3 - Women's Migration Pre-1920
• Chapter 4 - Single Women's Exodus from Botswana
• Chapter 5 - Single Tswana Women Migrants in South Africa
• Chapter 6 - Tswana Men Trying to Stop Women
• Chapter 7 - Policing the Boundaries - Intervention, Control and the Colonial State
• Chapter 8 - Men Trying to Stop Women's Migration
• Chapter 9 - Conclusion - Contestation of Gender in the "Land of the Desert".