Instrumental and contingent solidarity in the (re) construction of migrant communities
| When: | Tuesday, 10 May 2016 - Tuesday, 10 May 2016 |
| Where: | Braamfontein Campus East ACMS Seminar Room, via SH2191, South East Wing, 2nd Floor, Senate House, Braamfontein Campus East |
| Start time: | 12:45 |
The African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) will host a lunchtime seminar on how new migrant communities in Fordsburg, (re)construct space and place.
The seminar will be presented by Dr Pragna Rugunanan from the Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg.
Drawing from ethnographic research with local South Africans as well as Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Malawian and Egyptian migrants, the seminar considers how communities have been forged through education, religion, conflict, co-operation, reciprocity and solidarity; and examines how people cope in the face of adversity.
Arguing that communities are forged and contested within a tangled web of power relations and rank ordering of migrant groups, Rugunanan addresses the question that if solidarity is the glue that binds migrant communities, then to what extent does this hold true for diverse migrant communities in an enclosed space.
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