A notable silence in the emerging literature on migrant precarity is any consideration of the relationship between precarity and food insecurity. The links between migrant precarity and sudden economic, political or environmental shocks are relatively untheorized. Researchers were thus conceptually under-prepared to understand how and in what ways the COVID-19 pandemic intersected with general forms […]
Adopting a mixed methods approach including surveys, key informant interviews, and participatory methods, the project will apply a gender-sensitive analysis to explore the food insecurity experiences of Somali, Congolese and Zimbabwean migrants and refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa. It aims to provide critical decision-making and pandemic response data to local
This project, conducted as part of the Queen Elizabeth Advanced Scholars program at Laurier has three elements: 1) a food security household survey of 500 Zimbabwean migrant households in Cape Town, South Africa; 2) a similar survey conducted in Johannesburg, South Africa and 3) in-depth qualitative interviews with cross-border informal food traders in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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