Ebook: A Long Wy Home: Migrant Worker Worlds 1800-2014

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Highlighting Migrant Humanity; Chapter 1: Ngezinyawo -- Migrant Journeys; Chapter 2: Slavery, Indenture and Migrant Labour: Maritime Immigration from Mozambique to the Cape, c.1780-1880; Chapter 3: Walking 2 000 Kilometres to Work and Back: The Wandering Bassuto by Carl Richter; Chapter 4: A Century of Migrancy from Mpondoland; Chapter 5: The Migrant Kings of Zululand; Chapter 6: The Art of Those Left Behind: Women, Beadwork and Bodies;Captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression of the millions of migrant labour who helped to build and shape modern South Africa spanning 300 years beginning with the exportation of slave labour from Mozambique in the eighteenth century and ending with the strikes and tensions on the platinum belt in recent years.