Overview
- Explores migration as both an opportunity to redefine gendered norms and as an experience of risk
- Presents nuanced, empirically based insights on multiple forms, and functions of gender in African societies
- Analyses the perception of boundaries, both physical and imagined, within the narrative of mobility in Africa
- Outlines connections and disparities between forms of movements, across and beyond Africa under conditions of colonialism, apartheid and independence
- Critiques conceptualisations of borders – national, personal and time bound – which seek to control, restrict and impose conditions and norms
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kalpana Hiralal is Associate Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
Zaheera Jinnah is an anthropologist and researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwaterstrand, Johannesburg, Africa, and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender and Mobility in Africa
Book Subtitle: Borders, Bodies and Boundaries
Editors: Kalpana Hiralal, Zaheera Jinnah
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65783-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65782-0Published: 20 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09748-6Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65783-7Published: 10 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 259
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Gender and Sexuality, African History, Ethnography, Politics and Gender