This article is a review of the PhD thesis undertaken by Joanna Vearey that explores local
government responses to the urban health challenges of migration, informal settlements …

Through rich stories of African migrant women in Johannesburg, this book explores the
experience of living between geographies. Author Caroline Kihato draws on fieldwork and …

Migration studies in South Africa have partially taken the spatial turn, giving some attention
to questions of territoriality and spatial relationships. Recent literature has drawn on de …

Background Alcohol misuse is a key factor underlying the remarkable vulnerability to HIV
infection among men and women in sub-Saharan Africa, especially within urban settings. Its …

According to the United Nations, in 2003 South Africa had the highest number of asylum
seekers worldwide. This situation resulted from the combination of two factors: considerable …

Most studies on the links between secrecy and creativity have focused on individual sources
of creativity and the impact of organizational management on creative initiatives. However …

In Africa, urbanization and urban growth are dramatically restructuring the nature of cities.
The growing majority of urban dwellers now live in informal conditions that, without access to …

This paper proposes a theory of urban dispossession as depotentiation.'Depotentiation', as I
employ the term, indicates the diminishment of imminent capacities, affects and …

In January 2012 the residents of an inner‐city tenement building in Doornfontein,
Johannesburg, were evicted on a court order. The building was situated in a post‐industrial …

While there has been a rapid migration of Chinese nationals to Zimbabwe following the
'Look East'policy, there has been little research on and about how the Chinese migrants …