Tactical Creolization and the Production of Belonging in Migrant Pentecostal Churches in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Bukasa, Peter Kankonde

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-58194-5_6

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“…However, the interlinkages between migration and religion in African settings have only recently started to receive attention from scholars. Most of these recent works have been conducted in South Africa and have focused on the role of Christian churches or Muslim mosques as spaces of local and transnational belonging in big cities (see for example Landau 2009;Bukasa 2018;Cazarin 2018;Sigamoney 2018). Similar accounts have been made by Bruce Whitehouse on West African Muslim spaces in the Congolese city of Brazzaville (Whitehouse 2012).…”

Section: Religion Migration and Community Formation: Giving Meaning T...mentioning

confidence: 99%

African Perspectives on South–South Migration

Zeleke,

Smith

2024

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This book investigates the diverse and dynamic forms of migration within Africa. Centring themes of agency, resource flows, and transnational networks, the book examines the enduring appeal of the Global South as a place of origin, transit, and destination.Popular media, government pronouncements, and much of the global research discourse continue to be oriented towards migration from the Global South to the Global North, despite the fact that the vast majority of migration is South-South. This book moves beyond these mischaracterisations and instead distinctly focuses on the agency of African migrants and the creative strategies they employ while planning their routes within and across the African continent. Case studies explore the flow of resources such as people, money, skills, and knowledge throughout the continent, while also casting a light on the lived experiences of migrants as they negotiate their sometimes precarious and vulnerable positions. Underpinned by intensive empirical studies, this book challenges prevailing narratives and provides a new way of thinking about South-South Migration.Composed by a majority of scholars from the Global South, the book will be crucial reading for researchers, students, and policy makers with a focus on South-South Migration, Migration and Inequalities, Migration and Development, and Refugee and Humanitarian Studies.

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Section: Religion Migration and Community Formation: Giving Meaning T...mentioning

confidence: 99%

African Perspectives on South–South Migration

Zeleke,

Smith

2024

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“…The second delves into the micro-politics of everyday interaction that migrant populations negotiate in different African cities (Charway 2019;Dube 2017;Hankela 2020;Sheridan 2018;Sibanda and Sibanda 2014;Siziba 2016;Vinckel 2015). The third examines the importance of religious forms of sociality among migrant populations in South African cities exposed to xenophobic violence (Alhourani 2015;Bukasa 2018;Kaarsholm 2012;Landau 2009;Sadouni 2014;Vawda 2017).…”

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Disarming the xenophobic everyday: Muslim migrants and the horizons of urban mutuality in Durban

Kirby¹,

Sibanda²,

Charway³

2021

Africa

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This article explores the everyday lives that African migrants in Durban, South Africa share with other residents of the city. In conversation with Obvious Katsaura's work on ‘ethno-mutualism’, we use the example of ordinary greeting practices to show how Durban's urban everyday has been hijacked by xenophobic sensibilities. By demonstrating how the act of excluding migrants from these practices threatens to render the quotidian city uninhabitable for them, we shed light on the importance of mundane forms of social interaction for building a sense of identity and belonging. We then consider several ways in which African migrants develop and participate in Muslim forms of sociality that assist them in ‘disarming’ the urban everyday: from providing a platform for building solidarity with fellow migrants to mediating a ‘sense of welcome’ from the established Indian South African community. Elaborating on this, we delineate how forms of reciprocity emerge through the interactions between migrant and Indian Muslims that reproduce the ambient life of the city as a shared habitat, opening up new possibilities for entanglement. As such, our analysis contributes to emerging conversations about urban mutuality and migrant religious practices in the everyday lives of African cities.

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