South African-Based African Migrants' Responses to COVID-19

Yaya Fonye Odette

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This edited volume interrogates the intersection between viral pandemics, transnational migration and the politics of belonging in South Africa during COVID-19. The chapters draw on theoretical conceptions such as biopolitics, necropolitics, xenophobio/afrophobia and autochthonous citizenship to understand how South Africa has responded to the devastating effects of COVID-19 and the implications for the lives and livelihoods of African migrants. The book is written against the backdrop of deepening socioeconomic and political problems in South Africa, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic, exclusionary response strategies employed by the government and populist discourses about the dangers of hosting an increasing population of African migrants. Drawing on the experiences of migrants from Cameroon, DRC, Nigeria, Somalia and Zimbabwe, this book explores the challenges of these diaspora communities during lockdowns, their survival strategies and the effects on their social existence during and post the pandemic. From these case studies, we are reminded about the paradoxes of belonging and how COVID-19 continues to reveal different forms of global inequalities. They also remind us about the burdens of displacement and emplacement and how they are repeatedly politicised in South Africa, as the government grapples with endemic socioeconomic and political problems. The conclusion of the book examines the implications of COVID-19 for migration across the African continent and particularly for South Africa, as we witness new waves of xenophobic/afrophobic vigilantism driven by Operation Dudula.

Chapter 1: Introduction Viral pandemics, transnational migration and the politics of belonging in South Africa

Chapter 2: COVID-19 and its effects on the lives and livelihoods of female Congolese asylum seekers and refugees in the city of Cape Town

Chapter 3: The experiences of undocumented female Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Chapter 4: Mitigating the multidimensional impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on African migrant-owned hospitality businesses in Cape Town: Strategies, successes and failures

Chapter 5: COVID-19 lockdown and peri-urban livelihoods: Migrants' contribution to the South African food system

Chapter 6: Exclusionary business relief practices undermine South Africa's COVID-19 interventions: Insights from Gauteng-based entrepreneurs of Cameroonian descent

Chapter 7: The need to include the voices of migrants with disabilities within conversations about migration

Chapter 8: A tije a timu of the Yoruba diaspora in South Africa as a Survival Strategy during COVID-19 lockdown

Conclusion: Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: strategies, opportunities, challenges and implications for the lives of African migrants in South Africa

Sujets

• Migration
• Urban
• Social sciences
• African studies
• Sociology
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Social Science
• Ethnic Studies

Informations

• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 27 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789956552573
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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South African-Based African Migrants’ Responses to COVID-19
EDITED BY: Pineteh Angu, Tyanai Masiya,
Str
ategies, Opportunities, Challenges and Implications Kristina Gustafsson and Ngwi Mulu
“THIS IS A HIGHLY LUCID IMPORTANT TRANSDISCIPLINARY CONVERSATION ON THE CHALLENGES FACED BY ASYLUM
SEEKERS AND REFUGEES. IT HIGHLIGHTS HOW COVID-19 INTERSECTS WITH MANY ASPECTS OF MIGRANT LIVES,
AND PROVIDES CAREFUL ANALYSES ON MIGRATION AND THE INTRICATE POLITICS OF BELONGING IN POST-APARTHEID
SOUTH AFRICA. THE AUTHORS STRESS THE NEED FOR SOLUTIONS THAT PROTECT AFRICAN MIGRANTS.”
Daniel Tevera, University of the Western Cape, South Africa South African-Based
“THIS BOOK DELVES INTO FRESH SCHOLARLY APPROACHES AND INSIGHTS WITH A VIEW TO UNDERSTAND THE
CHALLENGES OF EXCLUSION, VICTIMIZATION AND MARGINALIZATION FACED BY AFRICAN MIGRANTS AS THEY WADE African Migrants’ THROUGH VERY UNPRECEDENT TIMES. IT CAPTURES, WITH INTELLECTUAL RIGOUR AND DELICACY, TROUBLING
ISSUES SUCH AS THE POLITICS OF BELONGING AND COMPLEXITIES OF SOCIO-CULTURAL IDIOSYNCRASIES AS WELL
AS THE INVISIBILITY OF REFUGEES WITH DISABILITIES, VULNERABILITY, DISCRIMINATION AND POWER STRUGGLES. Responses to COVID-19THE BOOK IS A BREAKING AND TIMELY CONTRIBUTION TO MIGRATION AND REFUGEE STUDIES IN SOUTH AFRICA.”
Monwabisi K. Ralarala, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Strategies, Opportunities, Challenges and Implications
This edited volume interrogates the intersection between viral pandemics, transnational
migration and the politics of belonging in South Africa during COVID-19. The chapters draw
on theoretical conceptions such as biopolitics, necropolitics, xenophobia/afrophobia and
autochthonous citizenship to understand how South Africa has responded to the devastating
effects of COVID-19 and the implications for the lives and livelihoods of African migrants.
The book is written against the backdrop of deepening socioeconomic and political problems
in South Africa, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic, exclusionary response
strategies employed by the government and populist discourses about the dangers of hosting
an increasing population of African migrants. Drawing on the experiences of migrants from
Cameroon, DRC, Nigeria, Somalia and Zimbabwe, this book explores the challenges of these
diaspora communities during lockdowns, their survival strategies and the effects on their social
existence during and post the pandemic. From these case studies, we are reminded about
the paradoxes of belonging and how COVID-19 continues to reveal different forms of global
inequalities. They also remind us about the burdens of displacement and emplacement and
how they are repeatedly politicised in South Africa, as the government grapples with endemic
socioeconomic and political problems. The conclusion of the book examines the implications
of COVID-19 for migration across the African continent and particularly for South Africa, as we
witness new waves of xenophobic/afrophobic vigilantism driven by Operation Dudula.
PINETEH ANGU is an associate professor in the Unit for Academic Literacy at the University of Pretoria,
South Africa.
TYANAI MASIYA is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria’s School of Public Management and
Administration.
KRISTINA GUSTAFSSON is an associate professor at the Department of Social Work, Linnaeus University
in Sweden.
NGWI MULU holds a PhD in Public Administration from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
EDITED BY:
Langaa Research & Publishing Pineteh Angu, Tyanai Masiya, Kristina Gustafsson
Common Initiative Group
P.O. Box 902 Mankon and Ngwi Mulu
Bamenda
North West Region
Cameroon

South African-Based African
Migrants’ Responses to
COVID-19
Strategies, Opportunities,
Challenges and Implications





Editors

Pineteh Angu; Tyanai Masiya;
Kristina Gustafsson & Ngwi Mulu













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About the Editors


Pineteh Angu is an associate professor in the Unit for Academic
Literacy at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research
interests include academic and professional literacies; curriculum
transformation and decolonisation, patterns and trends of African
migration into South Africa, as well as African migration and
xenophobia/Afrophobia. Pineteh Angu has published several
scholarly articles in local and international journals and book chapters
in edited book volumes.

Kristina Gustafsson is an associate professor at the Department of
Social Work, Linnaeus University in Sweden. She has conducted
long-term ethnographic research on public service interpreting in
spoken languages. Kristina’s core research interests include
migration, cultural encounters, democratic practices and postcolonial
perspectives. Currently, she is leading two research projects, Asylum
interviews in South Africa and Sweden. Experiences, interpretations and
negotiations, and the project, Cultural dialogue via an interpreter. Kristina
is head of a research group, Social Work and Migration in her
department, and part of the steering group of the Linnaeus University
Center for Concurrences in colonial and postcolonial studies.

Tyanai Masiya is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria’s
School of Public Management and Administration. His research
focus is public administration and public policy, with specific
emphasis on public service delivery, citizenship and democracy,
including local government management. He writes extensively on
constitutionalism and democratisation, in addition to transparency
and accountability of the state.

Ngwi Mulu holds a PhD in Public Administration from the
University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She is a postdoctoral
fellow in the Centre for Health Systems Research and Development
at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Her
research interests are gender and migration, South African AIDS
activism, and health inequities in the global South.
Notes on Contributors


Ogungbemi Christopher Akinola is a dramatist, playwright,
theatre administrator, teacher of acting and directing, stage play, and
film director. His research interests are in applied community theatre
and performance as well as African post-colonial discourses. He has
authored book chapters, journal articles and written plays such as
‘Hakuna Matata’, ‘Tsietsi’, ‘The Prince of Sovenga’, ‘Ghost Twerkers’
and ‘The Serial Kisser and the Code of Silence’. He has featured in
South African movies such as Jacob’s Cross on M-Net and Room 9 on
SABC, besides directing Nollywood films such as The Dragons and The
Lincoln’s Clan. Dr Akinola currently teaches acting and English at the
University of Limpopo, South Africa.

Pineteh Angu is an associate professor in the Unit for Academic
Literacy at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research
interests include academic and professional literacies; curriculum
transformation and decolonisation, patterns and trends of African
migration into South Africa, as well as African migration and
xenophobia/Afrophobia. Pineteh Angu has published several
scholarly articles in local and international journals and book chapters
in edited book volumes.

Peter Tabot Ayuk is Executive Dean at TSIBA Business School,
Cape Town, South Africa. Between 2008 and 2020, he led various
management and leadership programmes at Milpark Business School
in Johannesburg. Through the University of Johannesburg, Peter
obtained his M.Com in Business Management and PhD in Higher
Education. His research interests include issues in higher education
and organisational performance with publications in scientific
journals, book chapters and international conference proceedings.

Tiyese Chiwaya holds a master’s degree in Development Studies
from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her dissertation
examined the experiences of Zimbabwean undocumented female
migrants in an informal settlement in Pretoria.

Shakila Dada is a professor and Director at the Centre for
Augmentative and Alternative Communication at the University of
Pretoria. Her research interests are in the role that augmentative and
alternative communication (AAC) can play in facilitating the participation in society of persons with severe communication
disabilities.

Mulugeta Dinbabo holds a PhD in Development Studies from the
University of the Western Cape, South Africa, where he is a full
professor at the Institute for Social Development. Mulugeta is an
established researcher in the field of development and migration
studies. He is also the founder and Chief Editor of the African Human
Mobility Review (AHMR), an accredited journal by the Department of
Higher Education and Training in South Africa. AHMR is an
interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal created to encourage
and facilitate the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political,
legislative and developmental) of human mobility in Africa. He has
published extensively in local and international journals.

Tyanai Masiya is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria’s
School of Public Management and Administration. His research
focus