Bodies across borders : embodiment and experiences of migration for southern African international students at the University of Cape Town

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dc.contributor.advisorBennett, Janeen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMoll, Tessaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-02T10:53:57Z
dc.date.available2015-11-02T10:53:57Z
dc.date.issued2010en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn context of increasing global migration and its correlation to heightened tensions around the meaning of a "foreign" body, this research questions the experiences of bodies crossing borders into the social and historical space of Cape Town, South Africa. Grounded in theories of surveillance, embodiment, and feminist geography of fear of crime, the study employed a feminist methodology using qualitative group interviews with international students from the Southern African Development Community at the University of Cape Town. The transcribed data was analysed through the participants' use of discourses and their descriptions of experiences. Questions arose around the meaning of surveillance and notions of respectability in transition. Furthermore, participants navigate amid new spaces of fear and insecurity in relation to their subjectivities, particularly as "foreigners". The research suggests that fear becomes a fundamental attribute of bodies in migration through which individuals mitigate through "passing" subverting expressions of embodied nationalities, knowledge gathering of the local terrain, among others. The challenges and techniques to overcome these fears become part of a process to re-establish the "self" in a foreign context.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMoll, T. (2010). <i>Bodies across borders : embodiment and experiences of migration for southern African international students at the University of Cape Town</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Gender Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14597en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMoll, Tessa. <i>"Bodies across borders : embodiment and experiences of migration for southern African international students at the University of Cape Town."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Gender Studies, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14597en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMoll, T. 2010. Bodies across borders : embodiment and experiences of migration for southern African international students at the University of Cape Town. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Moll, Tessa AB - In context of increasing global migration and its correlation to heightened tensions around the meaning of a "foreign" body, this research questions the experiences of bodies crossing borders into the social and historical space of Cape Town, South Africa. Grounded in theories of surveillance, embodiment, and feminist geography of fear of crime, the study employed a feminist methodology using qualitative group interviews with international students from the Southern African Development Community at the University of Cape Town. The transcribed data was analysed through the participants' use of discourses and their descriptions of experiences. Questions arose around the meaning of surveillance and notions of respectability in transition. Furthermore, participants navigate amid new spaces of fear and insecurity in relation to their subjectivities, particularly as "foreigners". The research suggests that fear becomes a fundamental attribute of bodies in migration through which individuals mitigate through "passing" subverting expressions of embodied nationalities, knowledge gathering of the local terrain, among others. The challenges and techniques to overcome these fears become part of a process to re-establish the "self" in a foreign context. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - Bodies across borders : embodiment and experiences of migration for southern African international students at the University of Cape Town TI - Bodies across borders : embodiment and experiences of migration for southern African international students at the University of Cape Town UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14597 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/14597
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMoll T. Bodies across borders : embodiment and experiences of migration for southern African international students at the University of Cape Town. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Gender Studies, 2010 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14597en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentGender Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherGender Studiesen_ZA
dc.subject.otherMigrationen_ZA
dc.subject.otherSurveillanceen_ZA
dc.titleBodies across borders : embodiment and experiences of migration for southern African international students at the University of Cape Townen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMSocScen_ZA
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