Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa - Couverture souple

 
9781920596118: Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1920596119 ISBN 13 : 9781920596118
Editeur : Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP), 2016

Synopsis

This book powerfully demonstrates that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded, they take their life into their hands when they trade on South Africa's "mean streets". The book draws attention to what they bring to their adopted country through research into previously unexamined areas of migrant entrepreneurship. Ranging from studies of how migrants have created agglomeration economies in Jeppe and Ivory Park in Johannesburg, to guanxi networks of Chinese entrepreneurs, to competition and cooperation among Somali shop owners, to cross-border informal traders, to the informal transport operators between South Africa and Zimbabwe, the chapters in this book reveal the positive economic contributions of migrants. these include generating employment, paying rents, providing cheaper goods to poor consumers, and supporting formal sector wholesalers and retailers. As well, Mean Streets highlights the xenophobic responses to migrant and refugee entrepreneurs and the challenges they face in running a successful business on the streets.

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Éditeur
Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP)
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1920596119
ISBN 13 
9781920596118
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
300
Éditeur
Crush Jonathan, Chikanda Abel, Skinner Caroline
Coordonnées du fabricant
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