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Mean Streets

by Skinner, Caroline , Chikanda, Abel , Crush, J. S. , Southern African Migration Project , University of Cape Town. African Centre for Cities , International Development Research Centre (South Africa)

in Arbeitsmigranten / Economic conditions / Emigration & Immigration / Entrepreneurship / Entrepreneurship -- South Africa / Ethnische Diskriminierung / Flüchtlinge / Immigrants / Immigrants -- South Africa -- Economic conditions / Informal sector (Economics) / Informal sector (Economics) -- South Africa / Informelle Wirtschaft / Migrantennetzwerk / Peddlers / Peddlers -- South Africa / Rücküberweisungen / Selbstständige / Simbabwe / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / South Africa / Street vendors / Street vendors -- South Africa / Südafrika / Xenophobia / Xenophobia -- South Africa

2015

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Mean Streets

Skinner, Caroline,

Chikanda, Abel,

Crush, J. S.,

Southern African Migration Project,

University of Cape Town. African Centre for Cities,

International Development Research Centre (South Africa)

2015

Overview

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.

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Publisher

Southern African Migration Programme,Southern African Migration Programme : African Centre for Cities : International Development Research Centre,African Books Collective,Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP)

Subject

Arbeitsmigranten

/ Economic conditions

/ Emigration & Immigration

/ Entrepreneurship

/ Entrepreneurship -- South Africa

/ Ethnische Diskriminierung

/ Flüchtlinge

/ Immigrants

/ Immigrants -- South Africa -- Economic conditions

/ Informal sector (Economics)

/ Informal sector (Economics) -- South Africa