Competition or Co-operation? South African and Migrant Entrepreneurs in Johannesburg - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Competition or Co-operation? South African and Migrant Entrepreneurs in Johannesburg write by Sally Peberdy. This book was released on 2017-04-11. Competition or Co-operation? South African and Migrant Entrepreneurs in Johannesburg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Debates about international migration in South Africa often centre on the role of international migrant entrepreneurs who are seen to be more successful than their South African counterparts, squeezing them out of entrepreneurial spaces, particularly in townships. This report explores and compares the experiences of international and South African migrant entrepreneurs operating informal sector businesses in Johannesburg.
Mean Streets
Mean Streets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mean Streets write by Crush, Jonathan. This book was released on 2015-11-16. Mean Streets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book powerfully demonstrates that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded, they take their life into their hands when they trade on South Africa's "mean streets". The book draws attention to what they bring to their adopted country through research into previously unexamined areas of migrant entrepreneurship. Ranging from studies of how migrants have created agglomeration economies in Jeppe and Ivory Park in Johannesburg, to guanxi networks of Chinese entrepreneurs, to competition and cooperation among Somali shop owners, to cross-border informal traders, to the informal transport operators between South Africa and Zimbabwe, the chapters in this book reveal the positive economic contributions of migrants. these include generating employment, paying rents, providing cheaper goods to poor consumers, and supporting formal sector wholesalers and retailers. As well, Mean Streets highlights the xenophobic responses to migrant and refugee entrepreneurs and the challenges they face in running a successful business on the streets.
Migrant Traders in South Africa
Migrant Traders in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Migrant Traders in South Africa write by Pranitha Maharaj. This book was released on 2023-03-01. Migrant Traders in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited book examines the social realities of migrant traders in the informal economy in South Africa. It draws on original research conducted with migrant traders in order to understand their lived experiences in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. With chapters on the diverse types of informal trading, urban versus rural settings, migrant women, xenophobia, crime, poverty, well-being and policy responses, the book will be a valuable resource for researchers, scholars, policymakers and development practitioners whose work relates to SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth).
Urban Informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Urban Informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe write by Inocent Moyo. This book was released on 2021-01-09. Urban Informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book adds to the research of urban informality in the Global South with a specific focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe. It addresses the agency and the potential transformative capacity of the phenomenon of urban informality in connection with Southern African cities and towns. It adopts a political economy approach to analyse the evolution of informality in cities and its implications for urban planning. It brings to bear how the South African and Zimbabwean historical and/or ideological and contemporary political and economic trajectories have impacted on the ever changing nature of urban informality, both spatially and structurally and/or compositionally; thus resulting in unique urban materialities, which are aspects that have scarcely been studied or discussed in the extant literature. This book, therefore, seeks to close the academic gap by dealing with the dearth of literature on spatial (re)locational discourses of urban informality. The work positions urban informality as a resilient force with potency in terms of political mobilisation and (re) shaping urban spaces. Though these are fundamental issues, they have received comparatively little attention, especially in literature that focuses on the Southern African region. Accordingly, undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as academics in the fields of Urban Geography, Political Science, Development Studies, Sociology, Town and Regional Planning among others, will find the range of topics and depth of coverage in this book particularly valuable. Similarly, practitioners and activists on issues of urban informality and urban governance will find the book very useful.
Refugee Entrepreneurial Economies in Urban South Africa
Refugee Entrepreneurial Economies in Urban South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Refugee Entrepreneurial Economies in Urban South Africa write by Crush, Jonathan. This book was released on 2017-07-19. Refugee Entrepreneurial Economies in Urban South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the defining characteristics of many large cities in the rapidly urbanizing global South is the high degree of informality of shelter, services and economic livelihoods. It is these dynamic, shifting and dangerous informal urban spaces that refugees often arrive in with few resources other than a will to survive, a few social contacts and a drive to support themselves in the absence of financial support from the host government and international agencies. This report addresses the question of variability in economic opportunity and entrepreneurial activity between urban environments within the same destination country - South Africa - by comparing refugee entrepreneurship in Cape Town, South Africa’s second largest city, and several small towns in the province of Limpopo. The research shows that refugee entrepreneurial activity in Limpopo is a more recent phenomenon and largely a function of refugees moving from large cities such as Johannesburg where their businesses and lives are in greater danger. The refugee populations in both areas are equally diverse and tend to be engaged in the same wide range of activities. This report shows that different urban geographies do shape the local nature of refugee entrepreneurial economies, but there are also remarkable similarities in the manner in which unconnected refugee entrepreneurs establish and grow their businesses in large cities and small provincial towns.
