- Title
- Bridging through “women’s work"
- Creator
- Magadla, Siphokazi
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2021
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298650
- Identifier
- vital:57724
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2020.1863158"
- Description
- Bodomo’s bridge theory describes and predicts the long-term implications of African migrants’ activities and settlement in China. Drawing on research with African retail traders, university students, and corporate executives in China, I show that the bridge theory illuminates how African women and men rationalize their decisions to migrate to China within the context of the rise of Asia. Drawing on the literature regarding African women and work, I explain that structural economic conditions now force more Africans into economic sectors such as trade work that historically were dominated by African women. I demonstrate that African women’s roles as economic providers for their families and children in other sectors, such as university students and company executives, provide evidence of the continued “matricentric” nature of African households that rely on women’s economic productivity. I also examine the possibilities and limitations of building long-standing networks that shape African migrant settlement in China. I show that the historical theorization that characterizes global mobility as male – particularly regarding Africans – has contributed to the misrecognition of African women’s multiple activities in China.
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (20 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- International Feminist Journal of Politics
- Relation
- Magadla, S., 2021. Bridging through “women’s work”: African women and men chasing the rise of China. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 23(2), pp.243-262
- Relation
- International Feminist Journal of Politics volume 23 number 2 p. 243 2021 1468-4470
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Taylor and Francis Online Terms and Conditions Statement (https://www.tandfonline.com/terms-and-conditions)
- Rights
- Open Access
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Collections
Gender Action Forum (GENACT)
Magadla, Siphokazi (Associate Prof)
RU Department of Political and International Studies
SDG 05. Gender Equality
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
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