Like a bridge over troubled water : an ethnography on strategies of bodily navigation of male refugees in Cape Town /

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 nation...

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Autore principale: Junck, Leah Davina (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG [2018]
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvh9vwdm
Sommario:
  • Male refugees in Cape Town
  • Troubling bodies and the mother city
  • The challenged, corporeal body
  • Researching 'disposable bodies'
  • Bodies taking shape : on corporeal resistance to societal exclusion
  • Dream until your dreams come true? On bodily mappings of self
  • Conclusion.