This highly accessible portrayal of a post-apartheid neighborhood in transition analyzes the relationship between identity, migration, and place. Since it was founded in 1894, amidst Johannesburg's ...transformation from a mining town into the largest city in southern Africa, Hillbrow has been a community of migrants. As the "city of gold" accumulated wealth on the backs of migrant laborers from southern Africa, Jewish Eastern Europeans who had fled pogroms joined other Europeans and white South Africans in this emerging suburb. After World War II, Hillbrow became a landscape of high-rises that lured western and southern Europeans seeking prosperity in South Africa's booming economy. By the 1980s, Hillbrow housed some of the most vibrant and visible queer spaces on the continent while also attracting thousands of Indian and Black South Africans who defied apartheid laws to live near the city center. Filling the void for a book about migration within the Global South, The Roads to Hillbrow explores how one South African neighborhood transformed from a white suburb under apartheid into a "grey zone" during the 1970s and 1980s to become a "port of entry" for people from at least twenty- five African countries. The Roads to Hillbrow explores the diverse experiences of domestic and transnational migrants who have made their way to this South African community following war, economic dislocation, and the social trauma of apartheid. Authors Ron Nerio and Jean Halley weave sociology, history, memoir, and queer studies with stories drawn from more than 100 interviews. Topics cover the search for employment, options for housing, support for unaccompanied minors, possibilities for queer expression, the creation of safe parks for children, and the challenges of living without documents. Current residents of Hillbrow also discuss how they cope with inequality, xenophobia, high levels of crime, and the harsh economic impacts of COVID-19.Many of the book's interviewees arrived in Hillbrow seeking not only to gain better futures for themselves but also to support family members in rural parts of South Africa or in their countries of origin. Some immerse themselves in justice work, while others develop LGBTQ+ support networks, join religious and community groups, or engage in artistic expression. By emphasizing the disparate voices of migrants and people who work with migrants, this book shows how the people of Hillbrow form connections and adapt to adversity.
This highly accessible portrayal of a post-apartheid
neighborhood in transition analyzes the relationship between
identity, migration, and place. Since it was founded in
1894, amidst Johannesburg's ...transformation from a mining town into
the largest city in southern Africa, Hillbrow has been a community
of migrants. As the "city of gold" accumulated wealth on the backs
of migrant laborers from southern Africa, Jewish Eastern Europeans
who had fled pogroms joined other Europeans and white South
Africans in this emerging suburb. After World War II, Hillbrow
became a landscape of high-rises that lured western and southern
Europeans seeking prosperity in South Africa's booming economy. By
the 1980s, Hillbrow housed some of the most vibrant and visible
queer spaces on the continent while also attracting thousands of
Indian and Black South Africans who defied apartheid laws to live
near the city center. Filling the void for a book about migration
within the Global South, The Roads to Hillbrow explores
how one South African neighborhood transformed from a white suburb
under apartheid into a "grey zone" during the 1970s and 1980s to
become a "port of entry" for people from at least twenty-five
African countries. The Roads to Hillbrow explores the
diverse experiences of domestic and transnational migrants who have
made their way to this South African community following war,
economic dislocation, and the social trauma of apartheid. Authors
Ron Nerio and Jean Halley weave sociology, history, memoir, and
queer studies with stories drawn from more than 100 interviews.
Topics cover the search for employment, options for housing,
support for unaccompanied minors, possibilities for queer
expression, the creation of safe parks for children, and the
challenges of living without documents. Current residents of
Hillbrow also discuss how they cope with inequality, xenophobia,
high levels of crime, and the harsh economic impacts of COVID-19.
Many of the book's interviewees arrived in Hillbrow seeking not
only to gain better futures for themselves but also to support
family members in rural parts of South Africa or in their countries
of origin. Some immerse themselves in justice work, while others
develop LGBTQ+ support networks, join religious and community
groups, or engage in artistic expression. By emphasizing the
disparate voices of migrants and people who work with migrants,
this book shows how the people of Hillbrow form connections and
adapt to adversity.
Discussing issues of parent-child contact ranging from breastfeeding and sleeping arrangements to sexual abuse, Jean O'Malley Halley traces the evolution of mainstream ideas about touching between ...adults and children over the course of the twentieth century in the United States. Boundaries of Touch shows how arguments about adult-child touch have been politicized, simplified, and bifurcated into "naturalist" and "behaviorist" viewpoints, thereby sharpening certain binary constructions such as mind/body and male/female. In addition to contemporary periodicals and self-help books on child rearing, Halley uses information gathered from interviews she conducted with mothers ranging in age from twenty-eight to seventy-three. Throughout, she reveals how the parent-child relationship, far from being a private or benign subject, continues as a highly contested, politicized affair of keen public interest.
This highly accessible portrayal of a post-apartheid neighborhood in transition analyzes the relationship between identity, migration, and place.Since it was founded in 1894, amidst Johannesburg's ...transformation from a mining town into the largest city in southern Africa, Hillbrow has been a community of migrants. As the city of gold accumulated wealth on the backs of migrant laborers from southern Africa, Jewish Eastern Europeans who had fled pogroms joined other Europeans and white South Africans in this emerging suburb. After World War II, Hillbrow became a landscape of high-rises that lured western and southern Europeans seeking prosperity in South Africa's booming economy. By the 1980s, Hillbrow housed some of the most vibrant and visible queer spaces on the continent while also attracting thousands of Indian and Black South Africans who defied apartheid laws to live near the city center. Filling the void for a book about migration within the Global South, The Roads to Hillbrow explores how one South African neighborhood transformed from a white suburb under apartheid into a grey zone during the 1970s and 1980s to become a port of entry for people from at least twenty-five African countries. The Roads to Hillbrow explores the diverse experiences of domestic and transnational migrants who have made their way to this South African community following war, economic dislocation, and the social trauma of apartheid. Authors Ron Nerio and Jean Halley weave sociology, history, memoir, and queer studies with stories drawn from more than 100 interviews. Topics cover the search for employment, options for housing, support for unaccompanied minors, possibilities for queer expression, the creation of safe parks for children, and the challenges of living without documents. Current residents of Hillbrow also discuss how they cope with inequality, xenophobia, high levels of crime, and the harsh economic impacts of COVID-19.Many of the book's interviewees arrived in Hillbrow seeking not only to gain better futures for themselves but also to support family members in rural parts of South Africa or in their countries of origin. Some immerse themselves in justice work, while others develop LGBTQ+ support networks, join religious and community groups, or engage in artistic expression. By emphasizing the disparate voices of migrants and people who work with migrants, this book shows how the people of Hillbrow form connections and adapt to adversity.
In this essay, I explore a child's experience of engaging with animals, and through animals, humans in her life. For children and adults alike, most of life happens in mundane moments. Yet, bumped ...along through time and mundane everydayness, we are periodically struck by something. This is a story about a child's experience of out-of-the-ordinariness, of being struck, being struck by and seeing, really seeing rabbits.
In this study, they apply these complexities of feminism, identified by Harris, to feminists' choices regarding the surnames of their children. Across diverse perspectives within feminism, they do ...not want to be called girls, but women. They do not want to be called chairmen, but chair or chairperson.
Prologue 2 Halley, Jean; Nerio, Ron
The Roads to Hillbrow,
06/2022
Book Chapter
Like Ron Nerio, I was initiated into political activism through the antiapartheid movement. Unlike Nerio, who grew up in an urban working-class Latinx community, I grew up with a wealthy white ...paternal grandfather who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. It took me many years to say this definitively, and many years even though the KKK has sometimes been as normal, as American, as apple pie, perhaps more so. Many people dislike apple pie. In contrast, most white Americans in the first half of the twentieth century supported the KKK.¹
It is funny that seeing something so obvious
In this essay, I juxtapose mundane moments in life with two other time experiences. One is the larger sweep of time expressed in a genealogy or a family history, and the other is the time-out-of-time ...experience of trauma. Family histories work to contain experience, to offer explanations. And, in sharp contrast, often simultaneous to such stories, trauma happens, bursting though other experience, refusing containment.
The brief quotations above show a range of perceptions and attitudes our respondents hold about Hillbrow during the twenty-first century. The neighborhood continues to attract large numbers of people ...from within South Africa, including those from smaller cities, townships, and the countryside, as well as thousands of cross-border migrants. Despite high levels of crime, many people find ways to navigate the neighborhood’s spaces, build connections, and feel safe.
As South Africa confronts one of the world’s highest unemployment rates, many arrivals have no choice but to seek work in the informal sector that offers little pay, no security, and frequent
With the inauguration of President Nelson Mandela on May 10, 1994, South Africa began its arduous and uneven transition from apartheid toward broadly inclusive democracy. In 1997, the ANC-led ...government adopted one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. After three hundred years of white supremacist rule, the new constitution promised a democratic state founded on human dignity, nonracialism, and nonsexism. The people of the country, it proclaimed, “believe that South Africa belongs to all who live in it.”¹ Many observers and organizations would, over the years, interpret that line from the preamble to include the many nonnationals who
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