Congolese Social Networks: Living on the Margins in Muizenberg,
Cape Town is a closely researched ethnography that focuses
predominantly on the lives of three Congolese transmigrants
(self-identified as such). This monograph situates them in a
cosmopolitan South African space amongst dissimilar South African
others, and similar national others. Unlike other contemporary
international texts on transnational migrants, this book discusses
entree into the immigration country, and the diverse attempts of
Congolese men to situate themselves within social networks. In the
intellectual move to focus on transnational spaces and
transnationality, the reality of migration in a specific
socio-political context-a focus on place-has been ignored.
Migration on the African continent is more similar to the early
migrations of Italian, Polish, and Jewish immigrants to the United
States in the initial phases of arrival, adaptation, and
reproduction of the national self. While these Congolese
transmigrants maintain contact with those back home through various
social media applications, their very real survival needs force a
day-to-day living that secures survival needs, whilst those of a
higher class maintain a focus on lola (paradise)-onward migration
out of South Africa. An important aspect of securing one's survival
needs is the creation of diverse social networks. Through these
networks, Congolese transmigrants access information regarding
employment, information on appropriate educational opportunities
for children, information regarding safe residential areas, and a
number of other forms of information that support their existence
in an oftentimes alienating South African space.
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