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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Cockerton, Camilla May (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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".