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• Title:
  The Trials and Tribulations of Zimbabwean Precarious Women Workers in Johannesburg: A Cry for Help?
• Creator:
  Hlatshwayo, Mondli
• Contributor:
  University of Johannesburg, South Africa;
  Mondli Hlatshwayo is a senior researcher in the Center for Education Rights and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg. Hlatshwayo has published peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and an edited book on xenophobia, migrant workers, workers’ education, technology and the labor process, the politics of the world cup, and precarious work. Hlatshwayo obtained his doctorate from the University of Johannesburg in 2013.  ;
  mshlatshwayo@uj.ac.za
• Description:
  There is a growing literature on the conditions of Zimbabwean women working as migrant workers in South Africa, specifically in cities like Johannesburg. Based on in-depth interviews and documentary analysis, this empirical research paper contributes to scholarship examining the conditions of migrant women workers from Zimbabwe employed as precarious workers in Johannesburg by zooming in on specific causes of migration to Johannesburg, the journey undertaken by the migrant women to Johannesburg, challenges of documentation, use of networks to survive in Johannesburg, employment of the women in precarious work, and challenges in the workplace. Rape and sexual violence are threats that face the women interviewed during migration to Johannesburg and even when in Johannesburg. The police who are supposed to uphold and protect the law are often found to be perpetrators involved in various forms of violence against women. In the workplace, the women earn starvation wages and work under poor working conditions. Human rights organizations and trade unions are unable to reach the many migrant women because of the sheer volume of violations against workers’ rights and human rights.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.06.18;
  2019
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Qualitative Sociology Review; 1;
  15
• Subject:
  Migrant Women Workers;
  Xenophobia;
  Trade Unions;
  Feminization;
  Johannesburg;
  Zimbabwe
• Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/28857 ;
  1733-8077;
  10.18778/1733-8077.15.1.03
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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