Migrant Labour After Apartheid: The Inside Story

A large portion of South Africa's population remains double rooted--many South Africans live in an urban area, but also have access to a rural homestead to which they periodically return and often retire. The authors of Migrant Labour After Apartheid explore this rural-urban reality, showing that internal migrancy continues to have profound impacts on social cohesion, family life, gender relations, household investment, settlement dynamics, and the formation of political identity. CONTENTS: Introduction: Migrant Labour After Apartheid--the Editors. MIGRATION AND URBANISATION AFTER APARTHEID. Measuring Labour Migration After Apartheid: Patterns and Trends--D. Posel. Rural-Urban Migration as a Means of Getting Ahead--J. Visagie and I. Turok. Accessing the City: Informal Settlements as Staging Posts for Urbanisation in post-Apartheid South Africa--C. Ndinda and T. Ndhlovu. What Does Labour Migration Mean for Families? Children's Mobility in the Context of Maternal Migration--K. Hall and D. Posel. Distance and Duality: Migration, Family, and the Meaning of Home for Eastern Cape Migrants--M. Makiwane and N.A. Gumede. KwaMashu Hostel: Rural-Urban Interconnections in KwaZulu-Natal--N. Xulu-Gama. From "Living Wage" to "Family Wage:" Platinum Lives and the Contemporary Mineworkers' Movement (2012-17)--L. Sinwell. Migrant Women in South Africa's Platinum Belt: Negotiating Different Conceptions of Femininities--A.-J. Benya. How Labour Migration Works in the Space Economy: Labour Markets, Migration Tracks, and Homelessness as an Indicator of Failure--C. Cross et al. Marikana Revisited: Migrant Culture, Ethnicity, and African Nationalism in South Africa--L.J. Bank. DOUBLE-ROOTEDNESS AND RURAL REGIMES OF VALUE. Agricultural Production, the Household "Development Cycle" and Migrant Remittances: Continuities and Change in the Eastern Cape Hinterland--M. Rogan. Migrancy and the Differentiated Agrarian Landscapes: Land Use, Farming and the Reproduction of the Homestead in the Eastern Cape--P. Hebinck. Cattle after Migrant Labour: Emerging Markets and Changing Regimes of Value in Rural South Africa--L.J. Bank and M. Kenyon. Double-Rooted Families: The Circulation of Hidden Resources Between Urban and Rural South Africa--A. Perry. Displaced Urbanism: City Shack Life and the Citizenship of the Suburban House in the Rural Transkei--L.J. Bank. Changing Small-Town Economies in the Eastern Cape--M. Aliber and N.B. Nikelo. Harnessing the Ancestors: Uncertainty and Ritual Practice in the Eastern Cape--A. Ainslie. Entangled in Patriarchy: Migrants, Men, and Matrifocality After Apartheid--L.J. Bank.