TY  - GEN
T1  - Like a bridge over troubled water : an ethnography on strategies of bodily navigation of male refugees in Cape Town
A1  - Junck, Leah Davina
LA  - English
PP  - Mankon, Bamenda
PB  - Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1048887329
AB  - In spite of South Africa's progressive constitution, citizen's intolerance of non-citizens, refugees and economic migrants has escalated in recent years. What is more, xenophobic attacks are covered in the public discourse as mere episodes of crisis and often rather fuel rhetoric of national machismo than leading to an acknowledgement of the stories and experiences of people seeking refuge and being exposed to hostility on an everyday basis. This ethnography engages with the strategies employed by a group of refugee men from different African countries in surviving and stabilising their existence in the 'mother city' Cape Town in the face of precarity. It grapples with questions of how the men manage to bring about certainty in the face of unpredictability and extends its focus to the men's dreams and the modes by which these are sought to be achieved. It thereby highlights the ways in which objectifications as refugees and less-than-human are somewhat transcended by navigating spaces with care, purpose and imagination.
OP  - 82
CN  - JV8882 .J96 2018
SN  - 9956550612
SN  - 9789956550616
SN  - 9789956550012
KW  - Refugees : South Africa : Cape Town : Social conditions.
KW  - Refugees : Abuse of : South Africa : Cape Town.
KW  - Xenophobia : South Africa : Cape Town.
KW  - Machismo : South Africa : Cape Town.
KW  - Immigrants : South Africa : Cape Town : Social conditions.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Réfugiés : Afrique du Sud : Le Cap : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Réfugiés : Violence envers : Afrique du Sud : Le Cap.
KW  - Xénophobie : Afrique du Sud : Le Cap.
KW  - Machisme : Afrique du Sud : Le Cap.
KW  - Livres numériques.
KW  - e-books.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Emigration & Immigration.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Ethnic Studies : General.
KW  - Immigrants : Social conditions
KW  - Machismo
KW  - Refugees : Abuse of
KW  - Refugees : Social conditions
KW  - Xenophobia
KW  - South Africa : Cape Town
ER  -