- Title
- An exploration of Zimbabwean migrant women's perceptions of their identity : selected case studies in Gqebera, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
- Creator
- Moorhouse, Lesley
- Subject
- Women immigrants -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Women -- Identity
- Subject
- Emigration and immigration -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Immigrants -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Gender identity -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:16140
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1200
- Identifier
- Women immigrants -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Identifier
- Women -- Identity
- Identifier
- Emigration and immigration -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Identifier
- Immigrants -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Identifier
- Gender identity -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Description
- This study explores the perceptions of women who had migrated to Gqebera, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, from Zimbabwe, in terms of their own identity. In-depth interviews were conducted, situated within a phenomenological paradigm with a feminist epistemological orientation, in order to describe the rich detail of a woman’s quotidian existence subsequent to the migratory experience. Findings suggest that women’s identities are constructed in relation to other people, both those who form their in-group and their out-group. The process of migration and difficulties associated with assimilation into the host community impacts on felt ethnicity, strengthening ties to the homeland and to fellow Zimbabweans. Identity is also impacted on by spatiality, or lived space, in terms of both memories of home and present space occupied. Migration incorporating even the post-migration period may well form an extended liminal experience for women.
- Format
- xi, 194 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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