- Title
- A micro-ethnography: exploring relations between Somali and South African traders in Clarehill, Cape Town
- Creator
- Solomon, Kelly Michelle
- ThesisAdvisor
- Owen, Joy
- Subject
- Immigrants South Africa
- Subject
- Immigrants Social conditions
- Subject
- Xenophobia South Africa
- Subject
- Social capital (Sociology) South Africa
- Subject
- Somalis Migrations
- Subject
- Identity (Philosophical concept)
- Subject
- South Africa Race relations
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61277
- Identifier
- vital:27999
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.21504/10962/61277
- Description
- Xenophobia has become a dominant narrative in contemporary South Africa. In this thesis, I hone in on a micro, informal economic market that functions cohesively and convivially with both South African and Somali transmigrant traders in it. Religion is one of the key ways through which migrants are able to access social networks and social capital. Islam, the dominant practised religion in the market, thus forms a foundation for strong, emotionally supportive, caring relationships between Somali transmigrants and South Africans The relationships between South African traders and Somali transmigrants are mutually constitutive, as they lean on one another for stability during a time that is unstable for both groups. The closeness of their relationships is evident through the way in which they tease and joke with one another, and the many ways in which they offer intangible support to each other. This thesis illustrates that despite the dominant xenophobic narrative, a close social kinship is formed in the Roelof Street market between South Africans and Somali transmigrants.
- Format
- 122 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Anthropology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Solomon, Kelly Michelle
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