Hidden spaces and Urban health: Exploring the tactics of rural migrants navigating the city of gold

Urban Forum

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-53

  Vearey, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Informal housing; Local government; Migration; Urban health

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; HOUSING PROVISION; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; INNER CITY AREA; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; URBAN CLIMATE;

GAUTENG; JOHANNESBURG; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77349088912     PISSN: 10153802     EISSN: 18746330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12132-010-9079-4     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Balbo, M., & Marconi, G. (2005). Governing international migration in the city of the south. Geneva: Global Commission on International Migration.
2. Beall, J., Crankshaw, O., & Parnell, S. (2002). Chapter 2: Reverberations from a Divided City, Uniting a divided city: Governance and social exclusion in Johannesburg (pp. 7-25). London: Earthscan.
3. Bouillon, A. (2002). Citizenship and the city: The Durban centre-city in 2000. Transformation, 48, 1-37.
4. City of Johannesburg (2002). Joburg 2030. Corporate Planning Unit.
5. City of Johannesburg (2005). Human Development Strategy: Joburg's commitment to the poor. Johannesburg: Office of the City Manager Corporate Planning Unit.
6. City of Johannesburg (2006). Growth and development strategy. Corporate Planning Unit.
7. City of Johannesburg (2008). Draft integrated development plan review. Johannesburg.
8. Coquery-Vidrovitch, C. (2005). Introduction: African Urban spaces-history and culture. In S. J. Salm & T. Falola (Eds.), African Urban spaces in historical perspective (pp. xv-xl). Rochester: University of Rochester Press.
9. Cornwall, A. (2007). Of choice, chance and contingency: 'Career strategies' and tactics for survival among Yoruba women traders. Social Anthropology, 15(1), 27-46.
10. de Certeau, M. (1984). The practice of everyday life. Translated by Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press.
11. Galea, S., & Vlahov, D. (2005). Urban health: Evidence, challenges, and directions. Annual Review of Public Health, 26, 341-365.
12. Grabska, K. (2006). Marginalization in urban spaces of the global south: Urban refugees in Cairo. Journal of Refugee Studies, 19(3), 287-307.
13. Harpham, T. (2009). Urban health in developing countries: What do we know and where do we go? Health and Place, 15(1), 107-116.
14. Harpham, T., & Molyneux, C. (2001). Urban health in developing countries: A review. Progress in Development Studies, 1(2), 113-137.
15. Harpham, T., & Tanner, M. (1995). Urban health in developing countries: Progress and prospects. London: Earthscan.
16. Jacobsen, K., & Landau, L. B. (2003). The dual imperative in refugee research: Some methodological and ethical considerations in social science research on forced migration. Disasters, 27(3), 185.
17. Keith, M. (2005). The Ghetto: Knowing your place and the performative cartographies of racial subordination. In M. Keith (Ed.), After the Cosmopolitan? Multicultural cities and the future of racism (pp. 61-88). London: Routledge.
18. Kok, P., & Collinson, M. (2006). Migration and urbanization in South Africa. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa.
19. Landau, L. (2005a). Migration, Urbanisation and Sustainable Livelihoods in South Africa. In J. Crush & V. Williams (Eds.), Migration Policy Brief. Southern African Migration Project.
20. Landau, L. (2005b). Urbanisation, nativism, and the rule of law in South Africa's 'forbidden' cities. Third World Quarterly, 26(7), 1115-1134.
21. Landau, L. (2006). Transplants and transients: Idioms of belonging and dislocation in inner-city Johannesburg. African Studies Review, 49(2), 125-145.
22. Landau, L. (2008). Passage, profit, protection and the challenge of participation: building and belonging in African Cities, Discussion Paper Prepared for: UNU-WIDER Project Workshop. Beyong the Tipping Point: African Development in an Urban World. Cape Town, South Africa, 26-28 June 2008.
23. Landau, L., & Monson, T. (2008). Displacement, estrangement and sovereignty: Reconfiguring state power in Urban South Africa. Government and Opposition, 43(2), 315-336.
24. Minnaar, A. (1993). Communities in isolation perspectives on hostels in South Africa. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.
25. Mitlin, D., & Satterthwaite, D. (2004). Chapter 1. Introduction. In D. Mitlin & D. Satterthwaite (Eds.), Empowering squatter citizen: Local government, civil society and urban poverty reduction. London: Earthscan.
26. Napolitano, V., & Pratten, D. (2007). Michel de Certeau: Ethnography and the challenge of plurality. Social Anthropology, 15(1), 1-12.
27. Peberdy, S., Crush, J., & Msibi, N. (2004). Migrants in the City of Johannesburg: A report for the City of Johannesburg. Johannesburg: City of Johannesburg.
28. Scott, J. (1996). Cities, people, and language. In J. Scott (Ed.), Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed (pp. 53-84). Yale: Yale University Press.
29. Shisana, O., Rehle, T., Simbayi, L., Parker, W., Zuma, K., Bhana, A., et al. (2005). South African National HIV Prevalence, HIV Incidence, Behaviour and Communication Survey, 2005 Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council.
30. Tonkiss, F. (2005). Spatial stories: Subjectivity in the city. In F. Tonkiss (Ed.), Space, the city, and social theory. London: Polity.
31. UNAIDS (2006). 2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic. Geneva: UNAIDS.
32. Vearey, J. (2003). Initiating an HIV/STI programme for migrant men in inner city hostels: the challenges of engaging government and community within the urban South African context Unpublished MSc report. London: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
33. Vearey, J. (2006). HIV & Public Health Interventions: Testing a Model for Enhancing Quality of Life for Internal Migrants in Johannesburg. Presented at: Migration and Society Seminar Series, Forced Migration Studies, University of the Witwatersrand.
34. Vearey, J. (2008). Migration, access to ART and survivalist livelihood strategies in Johannesburg. African Journal of AIDS Research, 7(3), 361-374.
35. Vearey, J., & Oliff, M. (2006). HIV and public health interventions: Testing a model that enhances quality of life in inner-city Johannesburg, Research poster THPE0283. Toronto: XVI International AIDS Conference.
36. Vearey, J., Oliff, M., Gardner, J., Mbatha, T., Cebekhulu, V., & Delany, S. (2003). Quality of life-Long life: Questions raised while gaining access to inner-city hostels and informal settlements for research and interventions Reproductive Health Priorities Conference.
37. Vearey, J., Gardner, J., Mbatha, T., Mweli, S., & Oliff, M. (2005). HIV & Public Health Interventions. Testing a model that enhances quality of life in inner city Johannesburg, 12th Priorities Conference in Reproductive Health and HIV. Stellenbosch.
38. Vearey, J., Oliff, M., Moyo, W., Delany, S., & Rees, H. (2007). Hidden spaces, hidden livelihoods: Surviving the city of gold. Inclusive cities: Experiences and challenges in contemporary African Cities. Johannesburg: Wits.
39. Waelkens, M.-P., & Greindl, I. (2001). Urban health: Particularities, challenges, experiences and lessons learnt. A literature review (p. 136). Eschborn: GTZ.