African Migrant Women, Assets for Economic Development, in Need of Health Assets:

This article assesses the socio-economic coping and adaptation mechanisms employed by sub-Saharan African migrant women in South Africa using a survey and multi-attribute contingent ratings. The socio-economic and adaptation mechanisms were identified using a sustainable livelihood framework, which included political and cultural capital. This study focused on the rarely investigated South-South migration flows. The results found that the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of migrant women played a significant role in the coping and adaptation mechanisms they employed. Human capital ranked the highest, followed by physical, cultural, social, economic and political capitals. This implies that the livelihood capital has an implication: the migrant women need to have education and health services to survive in day-to-day activities of their life as human capital. They need also to sustain economically at least to cover house rent, food, communicate with family and assist the family as economic and physical capitals. Furthermore, they need to adapt, respect and live with the culture of the host nation in harmony and conducive environment as social, cultural and political capitals.

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Job Market Perceptions of African Migrant Women in South Africa as an Initial and Long-Term Coping and Adaptation Mechanism

Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l integration et de la migration internationale ◽

10.1007/s12134-019-00704-w ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 1165-1185

Author(s):

A. Ncube ◽

Yonas T. Bahta ◽

A. J. Jordaan

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Migrant Women ◽

Job Market ◽

Adaptation Mechanism ◽

African Migrant ◽

Market Perceptions

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The Reaffirmation of Self? Narrative Inquiry for Researching Violence Against Women and Stigma

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/10778012211024269 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107780122110242

Author(s):

Carol Ballantine

Keyword(s):

Narrative Inquiry ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Migrant Women ◽

Group Discussions ◽

Narrative Methods ◽

Social Lives ◽

The Social ◽

African Migrant ◽

Depth Interviews ◽

Insight Into

Stigma presents specific ethical and epistemological problems for qualitative researchers of violence against women. Narrative research methods promise to enable ethical research on violence while still offering deep insight into stigmatized topics. This article describes narrative methods used in six focus group discussions and four in-depth interviews with victim-survivors of violence against women, all African migrant women living in Ireland. The article connects narrative and stigma in research with the social lives of participants. It concludes with specific recommendations for creative uses of narrative inquiry to explore stigmatized themes, noting that stigma can never be entirely removed from the research encounter.

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