Making Home in a Hostile Land: Understanding Somali Identity, Integration, Livelihood and Risks in Johannesburg

Jinnah, Zaheera

doi:10.1080/09766634.2010.11885542

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“…Studies on foreign migrants in the city of Johannesburg have identified areas of ethnic enclaving along religious and entrepreneurial lines. Examples include the Ethiopian business enclave in the CBD, 72 the Somali religious enclave in Mayfair, 73 and the Chinese immigrant enclave in Cyrildene. 74 These enclaves develop on the basis of shared ethnicity, entrepreneurial endeavour and close networks, a characteristic that is absent among Mozambicans residing in La Rochelle.…”

Section: Property Ownership and Entrepreneurial Mismatchmentioning

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‘Ethnic Enclave of a Special Sort?’ Mozambicans in La Rochelle, Johannesburg

Moyo

Cossa

2015

Journal of Southern African Studies

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Section: Property Ownership and Entrepreneurial Mismatchmentioning

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‘Ethnic Enclave of a Special Sort?’ Mozambicans in La Rochelle, Johannesburg

Moyo

Cossa

2015

Journal of Southern African Studies

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“…The well connected political elite and upper middle class migrants, among whom there may be Muslims that fled places like Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo), Burundi, Rwanda or Nigeria, were able to easily insert themselves into the South African economy as business or other professionals and living in the suburbs (Bouillon 2001: 48-50). Others such as the refugees from the Great Lakes area and countries such as Somalia, did not have these options and resorted to street trading, trading in flea-markets, and for the more entrepreneurial import-export businesses linked to their country of origin (for ethnographic studies of Somali migrants see Jinnah 2010;Sadouni 2014). Although many did not find it difficult to adapt to informal trading, as it is a familiar activity, it is necessary to understand that there are different categories of people involved in these activities.…”

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Migration and Muslim Identities: Malawians and Senegalese Muslims in Durban, South Africa

Vawda

2017

J. Study Relig.

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This paper is about foreign African Muslims, particularly Malawian and Senegalese Muslim migrants in Durban, South Africa. Modern 21 st century migration processes are a global phenomenon deeply embedded in a complex interaction of social, economic and political patterns and processes, often leading to concentrations and enclaves people in large urban centres, such as Durban, along lines of religious, ethnic or national origins. Durban itself is also a major urban area in Southern Africa with a significant Muslim population and a centre of Islamic influence reaching out across the sub-continent, and may serve as a point of attraction for African Muslim migrants. Religious identity is an important factor that is imbricated in Malawian and Senegalese Muslims attempts to search for new solutions to their problems of adaptation, integration and assimilation into a new place. A key issue addressed in this paper is whether their identities, particularly religious, ethnic and national identities, rather than the normative values, provide a set of resources to accommodate themselves and pursue their aims of being gainfully employed as entrepreneurs and workers in a different country. De Certeau's conceptual distinction between strategy and tactics is used as a framework to evaluate the way in which Malawian and Senegalese migrants use religion and associated values towards making a life for themselves in Durban.

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“…The Somali civil war of 1991 led to the displacement of huge numbers of its population. It is estimated that 300 000 Somalis migrated to east and southern Africa (Jinnah 2010 …”

Section: Settling On Foreign Soil: the Somali Community In South Africamentioning

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Initiating a different story about immigrant Somali parents’ support of their primary school children’s education

Daniels

2017

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<span>The ability of parents to nurture and support their children during their primary school years is considered to be fundamental for the child’s development and learning. Teachers and educational psychologists assign great prominence to parental involvement as a tool to advance educational success for children, especially for those who are faced with disadvantages. In the past two decades, we have seen South African schools radically shifting from being racially and ethnically homogenous to becoming culturally, ethnically and linguistically heterogeneous. It is especially the schools in the lower socioeconomic areas that find themselves under tremendous pressure to serve their growing immigrant school population. Not enough is known about the cultural capital that lies embedded in these learners’ home contexts and the roles that their parents play in their education. In this manuscript, I investigate the potential intersectionality of school and home and critique the affiliation between teachers and immigrant parents as an important dimension of learning success in the primary school. I situate the discussion in a community school with a strong Somali immigrant population.</span>

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Making Home in a Hostile Land: Understanding Somali Identity, Integration, Livelihood and Risks in Johannesburg

Cited by 40 publications

References 6 publications

‘Ethnic Enclave of a Special Sort?’ Mozambicans in La Rochelle, Johannesburg

‘Ethnic Enclave of a Special Sort?’ Mozambicans in La Rochelle, Johannesburg

Migration and Muslim Identities: Malawians and Senegalese Muslims in Durban, South Africa

Initiating a different story about immigrant Somali parents’ support of their primary school children’s education

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