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Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday life in an In-Between City. By Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, 2013, Wits University Press, Johannesburg

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Set in Johannesburg’s inner city, central business district and adjacent
northeast residential suburbs of Berea, Hillbrow and Yeoville, Migrant
Women of Johannesburg: Everyday life in an In-Between City by Caroline
Wanjiku Kihato concerns the stories and experiences of 11 migrant women
from 10 African countries – from Nigeria to Tanzania – who crossed borders
over land, eventually gaining entry into South Africa through Mozambique
and Zimbabwe. Utilising the stories and self-supplied photographs of these
women’s lives in Johannesburg, Kihato reveals something of their daily reality
by exploring their living conditions, their ability and inability to meaningfully
participate in their host country, the spoken and unspoken codes for social
acceptability that they face, and the rejection and turmoil they often
experience.

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