Search

Search results for

1. 

   Patterns of immigration to and emigration from breeding colonies by African penguins

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: PA Whittington RM Randall RJM Crawford AC Wolfaardt NTW Klages BM Randall PA Bartlett YJ Chesselet R Jones

   Of over 20 000 African penguins Spheniscus demersus that had been flipper-banded as chicks between 1978 and 1999, 2% of those re-sighted after fledging settled to breed at non-natal colonies. This represented 14% of the banded birds that were subsequently...

   View item »
2. 

   Identity integration across cultural transitions: Bridging individual and societal change

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Moin Syed --- Department of Psychology, USA

   Identity research has proliferated in recent years creating a great need for theoretical clarity about the identity concept, and how to use this clarity to understand identities within specific contexts. The present article addresses this need by discussing theoretical aspects...

   View item »
3. 

   Liminality in incorporation: regularisation of undocumented Zimbabweans in South Africa

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Shingirai Nyakabawu --- , South Africa

   Since 2000, large numbers of undocumented Zimbabweans have settled in South Africa in search of better living opportunities. In 2010, the South African government approved an immigration amnesty known as the Dispensation Zimbabwe Permit (DZP). This article argues that DZP...

   View item »
4. 

   Aspiring to citizenship: African immigrant youth and civic participation in Cape Town, South Africa

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Alison Kuah --- University of Cape Town, South Africa

   Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Cape Town over four months, this article addresses the question of how African immigrant youth experience life and live as “citizens” in Cape Town. African immigrant youth straddle multiple positions, localities and identities...

   View item »