Book Chapters

S. Irudaya Rajan, Renjini Rajagopalan and P. Sivakumar  •  The onslaught of COVID-19 thrust upon humanity two major challenges, that of human health and that of the economy; the migrants are mired in both. It has both pushed the world economic order into chaos and challenged even the mightiest of economies. The initial advent of COVID-19 sowed confusion within systems of governance as countries struggled to deal with its unprecedented threat. The pandemic has both exposed the magnitude of India’s dependency ...

Sujata Ramachandran, Jonathan Crush, Godfrey Tawodzera & Elizabeth Opiyo Onyango  •  Our chapter examines the neglected connections between migration, gender, and food security in the context of the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic, using the case study of female-headed Zimbabwean migrant households in South Africa. We draw on the concept of “migrant pandemic precarity” to highlight the distinctive pandemic-related negative turns and vulnerabilities encountered by migrant households stretched across sending and receiving areas. We contend that unchecked food insecurity is a core ...

Mulugeta F. Dinbabo  •  In developed and developing countries, the livelihoods of a lot of people in peri-urban areas depend on the informal economy (Coulibaly & Li 2020; Farrington 2001; Harrison & McVey 1997). The informal economy is defined by all jobs relating to individuals or businesses not appropriately catered for by statute, practice, or structured arrangements. Such lack of formality often ensures that little of the ‘shadow’ economy is understood and, as such, is likely to be ignored during ...

Rogers Hansine  •  This paper discusses how street vendors in the city of Maputo have countervailed the municipal strategies and policies for pushing back their presence in public spaces and, in doing so, reclaimed public urban spaces. Based on ethnographic research carried out between 2015 and 2019 in the city of Maputo, four strategies have been identified: 1) adjustment of time-space routine; 2) spatial proximity; 3) compartmentalization of the merchandise and/or services; 4) symbiotic interaction. These strategies are not mutually ...

Inês Macamo Raimundo  •  Migration theories have focused on causes of movements, demographic and economic impacts, and spatial distribution of migration flows. These theories have focused less on inclusive growth and ethnic cohesion in the context of migration. Published papers hardly discuss growth that centers on inclusive growth and migration and they do not address how ethnic cohesion has contributed to the integration of African migrants in each hosting country. While Africans fight each other in their countries of origin ...

Ndeyapo Nickanor, Lawrence Kazembe, Jonathan Crush  •  The urbanizing world population has seen increased food insecurity in urban spaces, a result of unsustainable food systems, growing inequalities and weak urban governance that lacks urban food strategies. To improve our knowledge of household strategies employed to survive in urban spaces, we conducted a household survey to examine the relationship between coping strategies, food insecurity and dietary diversity in the secondary cities corridor of Oshakati-Ongwediva-Ondangwa (OOO) in Northern Namibia. The data were ...