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Mean streets : migration, xenophobia and informality in South Africa by Jonathan Crush; Abel Chikanda; Caroline Skinner; Southern African Migration Project,; University of Cape Town. African Centre for Cities,; International Development Research Centre (Canada) is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mean streets : migration, xenophobia and informality in South Africa about?
This book powerfully demonstrates that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded, they take their life into their hands when they trade on South Africas mean streets. The book draws attention to what they bring to their adopted country through research into previously unexamined areas of migrant entrepreneurship. Ranging from studies of how migrants have created agglomeration economies in Jeppe and Ivory
Who reads Mean streets : migration, xenophobia and informality in South Africa?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jonathan Crush; Abel Chikanda; Caroline Skinner; Southern African Migration Project,; University of Cape Town. African Centre for Cities,; International Development Research Centre (Canada)
- Publisher
- The Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP) : The African Centre for Cities : The International Development Research Centre
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781920596170
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Political Science, Science, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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