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Author Junck, Leah Davina, author.

Title Like a bridge over troubled water : an ethnography on strategies of bodily navigation of male refugees in Cape Town / Leah Davina Junck
Published Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 82 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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 national machismo than leading to an acknowledgement of the stories and experiences of people seeking refuge and being exposed to hostility on an everyday basis. This ethnography engages with the strategies employed by a group of refugee men from different African countries in surviving and stabilising their existence in the 'mother city' Cape Town in the face of precarity. It grapples with questions of how the men manage to bring about certainty in the face of unpredictability and extends its focus to the men's dreams and the modes by which these are sought to be achieved. It thereby highlights the ways in which objectifications as refugees and less-than-human are somewhat transcended by navigating spaces with care, purpose and imagination
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-82)
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 27, 2018)
Subject Refugees -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Social conditions
Refugees -- Abuse of -- South Africa -- Cape Town
Xenophobia -- South Africa -- Cape Town
Machismo -- South Africa -- Cape Town
Immigrants -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Machismo
Refugees -- Abuse of
Refugees -- Social conditions
Xenophobia
South Africa -- Cape Town
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9956550612
9789956550616