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Erschienen in: Urban Forum 3/2016

26.02.2016

Johannesburg (South Africa) Inner City African Immigrant Traders: Pathways from Poverty?

verfasst von: I. Moyo, M. D. Nicolau, Trynos Gumbo

Erschienen in: Urban Forum | Ausgabe 3/2016

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Abstract

By deploying various perspectives on urban informality as an analytical lens, this paper explores why African immigrant traders in the Johannesburg (South Africa) inner city have resorted to informal street trading, in the midst of challenges relating to, among others, harassment by regulatory authorities and lack of the necessary trading licences. Using a qualitative study of 40 African immigrant traders, this study suggests as simplistic the explanation that African immigrant traders continue to set up businesses and trade in the Johannesburg inner city, because they were only escaping from, among others, poverty and exploitation. Insights from this study seem to suggest that they also engage in street trading because of the lure of less or no stringent controls and the possibility of earning higher incomes. Such insights seem to complicate the perception by African immigrant traders that they engaged in street trading simply because of discrimination, xenophobia and the devaluing of their qualifications. This raises implications regarding the complexity of reasons why African immigrants in a setting like the Johannesburg inner city engage in street trading.
Vorheriger Artikel The Relational Economy of Informality: Spatial Dimensions of Street Trading in Ivory Park, South Africa
Nächster Artikel Reinforcing Housing Assets in the Wrong Location? The Case of Botshabelo, South Africa

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Metadaten
Titel
Johannesburg (South Africa) Inner City African Immigrant Traders: Pathways from Poverty?
verfasst von
I. Moyo
M. D. Nicolau
Trynos Gumbo
Publikationsdatum
26.02.2016
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Urban Forum / Ausgabe 3/2016
Print ISSN: 1015-3802
Elektronische ISSN: 1874-6330
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-016-9277-9

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