Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Highlighting Migrant Humanity
- Chapter 1 Ngezinyawo - Migrant Journeys
- Chapter 2 Slavery, Indenture and Migrant Labour: Maritime Immigration from Mozambique to the Cape, c.1780–1880
- Chapter 3 Walking 2 000 Kilometres to Work and Back: The Wandering Bassuto by Carl Richter
- Chapter 4 A Century of Migrancy from Mpondoland
- Chapter 5 The Migrant Kings of Zululand
- Chapter 6 The Art of Those Left Behind: Women, Beadwork and Bodies
- Chapter 7 The Illusion of Safety: Migrant Labour and Occupational Disease on South Africa's Gold Mines
- Chapter 8 ‘The Chinese Experiment’: Images from the Expansion of South Africas ‘Labour Empire’
- Chapter 9 ‘Stray Boys’: The Kruger National Park and Migrant Labour
- Chapter 10 Surviving Drought: Migrancy and the Homestead Economy
- Chapter 11 Migrants from Zebediela and Shifting Identities on the Rand, 1930s–1970s
- Chapter 12 Verwoerd's Oxen: Performing Labour Migrancy in Southern Africa
- Chapter 13 ‘Give My Regards to Everyone at Home Including Those I No Longer Remember’: The Journey of Tito Zungu's Envelopes
- Chapter 14 Sophie and the City: Womanhood, Labour and Migrancy
- Chapter 15 Bungityala
- Chapter 16 Migrants: Vanguard of the Worker's Struggles?
- Chapter 17 Debt or Savings? Of Migrants, Mines and Money
- Chapter 18 Post-Apartheid Migrancy and the Life of a Pondo Mineworker
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Highlighting Migrant Humanity
- Chapter 1 Ngezinyawo - Migrant Journeys
- Chapter 2 Slavery, Indenture and Migrant Labour: Maritime Immigration from Mozambique to the Cape, c.1780–1880
- Chapter 3 Walking 2 000 Kilometres to Work and Back: The Wandering Bassuto by Carl Richter
- Chapter 4 A Century of Migrancy from Mpondoland
- Chapter 5 The Migrant Kings of Zululand
- Chapter 6 The Art of Those Left Behind: Women, Beadwork and Bodies
- Chapter 7 The Illusion of Safety: Migrant Labour and Occupational Disease on South Africa's Gold Mines
- Chapter 8 ‘The Chinese Experiment’: Images from the Expansion of South Africas ‘Labour Empire’
- Chapter 9 ‘Stray Boys’: The Kruger National Park and Migrant Labour
- Chapter 10 Surviving Drought: Migrancy and the Homestead Economy
- Chapter 11 Migrants from Zebediela and Shifting Identities on the Rand, 1930s–1970s
- Chapter 12 Verwoerd's Oxen: Performing Labour Migrancy in Southern Africa
- Chapter 13 ‘Give My Regards to Everyone at Home Including Those I No Longer Remember’: The Journey of Tito Zungu's Envelopes
- Chapter 14 Sophie and the City: Womanhood, Labour and Migrancy
- Chapter 15 Bungityala
- Chapter 16 Migrants: Vanguard of the Worker's Struggles?
- Chapter 17 Debt or Savings? Of Migrants, Mines and Money
- Chapter 18 Post-Apartheid Migrancy and the Life of a Pondo Mineworker
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Index
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- A Long Way HomeMigrant Worker Worlds 1800–2014, pp. i - ivPublisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2014