‘ Fitting In ’ : Social Cohesion among Skilled  Migrant Indian Women and Host Diasporic  Communities in South Africa

Rugunanan, Pragna

doi:10.29086/2519-5476/2017/v24n1a9

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“…There are some exceptions. My research shows that skilled Indian migrant women in South Africa are the antithesis of the "dependent, trailing spouses"; instead they use the traditional practices of arranged marriages as a lever for upward mobility through outward migration practices (Rugunanan, 2017). Some Pakistani women and young single and married Indian women, whilst undertaking the burden of home chores, also displayed agency by operating enterprises or taking employment outside the home.…”

Section: Feminisation Of Migration In the Global Southmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…The flows of migration do not only include the dominant male; instead, single women and, in many cases, women who leave their children behind are choosing to migrate independently Rugunanan, 2017;Batisai, 2016;Huynh et al 2015). Women are active agents in migration; they constitute 51% of the refugee population in southern Africa (UNHCR, 2018), and constitute 48.4% of international migrants across the globe as of 2017.…”

Section: Feminisation Of Migration In the Global Southmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A body of research conducted on the continent into the agency and empowerment of migrant women challenges the views of women as invisible, victims and appendages. This scholarship gives importance to agency by pinpointing how women make decisions and plan for their families' future well-being (Khan, 2018;Rugunanan, 2017;Batisai, 2016;Jinnah, 2013;.…”

Section: Feminisation Of Migration In the Global Southmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A study on Egyptian female migrants in Johannesburg by Khan (2018) demonstrates that while gender roles are indeed reproduced, migration empowers women to exert some degree of agency to counter traditional norms of patriarchy. More recent research on skilled Indian female migrants, who migrated as dependents on their skilled spouses, illustrate that they exerted considerable agency in choice of spouse, the decision to migrate, and the decision to work in the host country, subverting the notion of "trailing spouses" as lacking in agency (Rugunanan, 2017). They develop a form of contingent instrumentality to renegotiate their gender identity and assert their hegemony.…”

Section: Feminisation Of Migration In the Global Southmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Migration in Southern Africa

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2023

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Section: Feminisation Of Migration In the Global Southmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Feminisation Of Migration In the Global Southmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Feminisation Of Migration In the Global Southmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Feminisation Of Migration In the Global Southmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Migration in Southern Africa

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“…While the "South-North" skilled migration has been thoroughly studied over the years (Boyd & Thomas, 2001;Iredale, 2005) there has also been an increase in the "South-South" migration of skilled workers although this has been shadowed by rapid and rampant increases of undocumented migrants, frontier workers, and refugees (Adepoju, 2000;Standing, 2011). In recent times South-South skilled migration is gradually receiving scholarly attention (see Rugunanan, 2017).…”

Section: Skills Shortages and Migrant Professionals In The South Afrimentioning

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Special Issue: A Southern African Dialogue on the Professions and Professional Work

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2019

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This special issue showcases some of the papers presented at the 2017 Colloquium titled "A Southern African Dialogue on the Professions and Professional Work" held at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. While the special issue contributes to the conversation on professions and professionalism within southern Africa (see also Bonnin & Ruggunan, 2013; Bonnin & Ruggunan, 2016; Erasmus & Breier, 2009; Young & Muller, 2014), it also opens up a conversation between southern Africa and the economic/political North. Writing in 1972 Johnson (p. 281) noted that "the sociology of professions, as a specialist field, today stands almost alone in ignoring the third world". Forty-seven years later, it feels as if not much has changed. Annisette (2007, p.245) points to the repeated calls for "greater spatial and temporal diversity in historical research in accounting", while her focus here was on accounting, this call resonates with most research fields in the professions. However, we would argue that not only is there a need for "spatial and temporal diversity" but also a need to recognise that the professions in both the global south and the economic north are shaped firstly by colonialism and imperialism, and later, through globalisation and neo-imperialism. Just as Johnson (1982, cited in Annisette, 2000) argued that professionalisation in Britain and its former colonies are linked through the project of imperialism, so the globalisation of professions through the global reach of professional service firms (Faulconbridge & Muzio, 2007), transnational companies and multilateral organisations continues this mutual shaping albeit in a different form (Hopper et al., 2017; Lassou, Hopper, Tsamenyi, & Murinde, 2019). Recognising that the professional project "is grounded in history and unfolds through continuous negotiations set in a broader political and economic order … which over time mobilises different claims, methods, and systems …" (Faulconbridge & Muzio, 2007, p. 10), the articles in this special issue are situated within the specific historical, political and economic context of southern Africa. As they demonstrate colonialism, apartheid, and post-apartheid as well as globalisation and neo-imperialism are all political and economic contexts that are deeply significant when analysing the professions and professionalisation in southern Africa. Southern Africa was first colonised in 1652 when the Dutch occupied land at the Cape of Good Hope. In the decades and centuries that followed, the colonising powers in this region included the Dutch, the French (very briefly) and the British (with Portugal colonising areas slightly north of southern Africa on the west and east coast of the continent). However, by the nineteenth century, Britain was the major colonial power in much of southern Africa. The professions that developed in the region bore the hallmarks of similar professions back in the colonial motherland. The recognition of qualifications; the way in which particular professions developed and organised; and very cen...

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Migrating Beyond Borders and States: Instrumental and Contingent Solidarities Among South Asian Migrant Informal Workers in South Africa

Rugunanan

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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South-to-South migration instead of South to the Global North will dominate global migration trends in the future. This calls for redefining how we view and theorise about migration to the Global South, who is migrating, to which countries, the reasons for migration, whether this is a renewed form of circular migration, our understanding of transnationalism, the role of remittances and how migrants are received in the countries of the South and. In particular, I argue that migration research to and from Africa is not given the prominence it deserves in the global migration literature. I further argue that that the similarities and differences of migration to the Global South is under-theorised. The increase in South-to-South migration is creating a shift in economies resulting in the creation of new ‘geographies of growth’ and thus a Sociology of Migration understanding of patterns of migration and development in the Global South is needed. A case study of South Asian migrants to South Africa is illustrative of these geographies of growth and shows how migrants develop instrumental and contingent solidarities to integrate.

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‘ Fitting In ’ : Social Cohesion among Skilled Migrant Indian Women and Host Diasporic Communities in South Africa

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Migration in Southern Africa

Migration in Southern Africa

Special Issue: A Southern African Dialogue on the Professions and Professional Work

Migrating Beyond Borders and States: Instrumental and Contingent Solidarities Among South Asian Migrant Informal Workers in South Africa

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