Lorena Núñez Carrasco

University of the Witwatersrand | wits · Department of Sociology

From the analysis of the Wave 5 National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey 2021 dataset, the study conducted in South Africa, we developed a model of analysis based on three dimensions, namely, subjective well-being, material living conditions, and importance attributed to education during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectio...

COVID-19 has drastically impacted end-of-life care for hospitalized patients globally. To reduce the risk of infection, hospitals everywhere have implemented stringent visitor policies, which prevent families from being at the bedside when their loved one is dying of COVID-19. These changed protocols have had a profound impact on several aspects of...

Purpose Migrants historically and currently form an integral part of South Africa. Their importance and contribution to the country’s economy and development are undeniable. Yet, life for African migrants in South Africa is becoming increasingly difficult. An analysis of migrants mortality until now has not been conducted. The purpose of this paper...

Maringira and Núñez Carrasco examine the manner in which army deserters from Zimbabwe communicate and continue to re-live and enact their past military lives in exile in South Africa. The adoption of different modes of communication is related as it occurs in contrasting places—the intimate space of camaraderie; and the public space of the Church—w...

This chapter explores the relationship between mobility , belonging and places of burial. The focus is on foreign migrants who die in Johannesburg and are buried on foreign land, away from their hometowns and countries of origin. Questions about where in the City of Johannesburg foreign migrants are buried and how decisions around burial place are...

This chapter examines various waves of migration and their processes of settlement in Greater Rosettenville in south Johannesburg from a historical and contemporary perspective. We explore how various migrant groups have gained access to sacred spaces and this exploration leads to an analysis of these spaces as pivotal in the process of place makin...

This volume has charted diverse lines of mobility and migration and the ways religion has shaped these, and Johannesburg, in multiple ways. It has explored the sojourns of the living and the dead, the movement of people, ideas and objects, across borders and within city blocks. It has explored the ways in which spirits are experienced as incarnated...

This book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg. By mobility, we refer to not only transnational and intra-national migration but also movements of commodities, ideas and forms, the traffic of objects, sounds and colours within the city. By taking this approach, we aim to re-the...

This chapter explores how former Zimbabwean soldiers who deserted or resigned from the Zimbabwe National Army journey between two seemingly contradictory spaces in search of healing: the space of camaraderie in the political association of the former soldiers in exile namely Affected Military Men of Zimbabwe Association (AMMOZA) and Pentecostal chu...

This chapter provides an overview of the key lessons that can be read across the case studies of precarious life in Johannesburg. Reflecting on the different case studies, a number of themes emerge. Firstly precarity is a central part of life for many of Johannesburg’s residents and has been since the city began. This requires an understanding of p...

This chapter explores how Pentecostal Churches understand, capitalise on, and address issues of distress and emotional suffering among migrant populations in South Africa. It describes how religious interventions work in specific cultural contexts by assisting with migrants’ need for healing in post-conflict situations and considers how, through th...

Through military training, soldiers' bodies are shaped and prepared for war and military related duties. In the context these former Zimbabwean soldiers find themselves - that of desertion and 'underground life' in exile in South Africa - their military trained bodies and military skills are their only resource. In this article, we explore the ways...

This book is a collection of case studies about the precarity of everyday life in Johannesburg. It is made up of chapters based on case studies that document people’s practices of help-seeking, care, support and healing in response to their everyday insecurity. Throughout the book, the authors describe a state of ontological insecurity that manifes...

This chapter presents three case studies of, what the authors have termed, trauma care in contemporary South Africa. The case studies are not about psychosocial interventions in the traditional (counselling) sense, but they look rather at how migrant communities in South Africa have sought out ways to deal with the deeply dislocating effects of liv...

This volume offers radically new ways of thinking about precarious life in the city of Johannesburg. Using case studies as varied as Pentecostal and Zionist churches, brothels, shelters, political movements for change in Zimbabwe, ex-soldiers groups, counseling services and art projects, this volume grapples with the way its predominantly migrant r...

This paper considers the question of dietary diversity as a proxy for nutrition insecurity in communities living in the inner city and the urban informal periphery in Johannesburg. It argues that the issue of nutrition insecurity demands urgent and immediate attention by policy makers. A cross-sectional survey was undertaken for households from urb...

It is unsurprising that a range of organisations have been created both by and for migrants, as unique needs have arisen alongside the growing flow of migration from the African sub-continent to South Africa in the post-apartheid era. This article investigates in particular the Johannesburg-based organisations that serve the needs of cross-border m...

The impact of "daily stressors" on the emotional wellbeing of forced migrants SEPTEMBER 2011 REPORT

Drawing on a 2008 household study conducted with internal and cross-border migrant households in Johannesburg, South Africa, this article explores the impact of HIV-related sickness and the gendered provision of care on migration patterns. Findings show that the provision of care helps to sustain links between the livelihood systems of urban and ru...

South Africa has the largest population of people living with HIV globally and is associated with high population mobility. The majority of migrants move in search of improved livelihood opportunities, and many who migrate (both internally and across borders) move into urban areas, often through peripheral informal settlements where HIV prevalence...

Comparison of the experiences of middle-class Peruvian immigrants in South Florida and working-class Peruvian immigrants in Santiago confirms that individuals negotiate the framework of legality differently according to social class. Although the middle-class Peruvians in South Florida were forced to live in what Susan Coutin has called “spaces of...

Developing country urban contexts present multiple challenges to those responsible for ensuring the good health of urban populations. These include urban growth, migration, informal settlements, intra-urban inequalities and - in some cases - high HIV prevalence. Using Johannesburg as a case study, this paper explores the complexities of the urban c...

By looking at the case of Peruvian migration to Chile, this article explores some of the characteristics of the social reproduction of transnational families between two neighboring countries in the South. This article examines the role played by structural socio-economic conditions migrants live by in Chile in shaping their transnational family li...

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Departing from the existing critique of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), regarding the absence of mental health dimensions in the formulation of its poverty related goal, this article explores the interrelation between poverty and mental health by examining experiences of emotional distress of Peruvian migrant workers in Chile. Through an a...

Gender mainstreaming has itself become something of a mainstream practice in much development work. As the theory and practice of mainstreaming has developed so too have a range of debates over what exactly gender mainstreaming can contribute to development. This article reflects on a gender mainstreaming intervention in the East African region to...

El artículo tiene como propósito presentar los diversos retos y desafíos que enfrentan los migrantes andinos en Santiago de Chile, para ello parte de un desarrollo conceptual general acerca del fenómeno migratorio y sus implicaciones relacionadas con los procesos de exclusión y discriminación que tienen que enfrentar los migrantes en las sociedades...