Class and social reproduction in migrant households in a South African community

This article examines the relationship of migrancy to class and social reproduction. It challenges several popular notions, such as that migrant households are a homogeneous category, that the work involved in social reproduction is ‘natural’ and unproblematic and that any ‘care deficit’ created by increased female migrancy is met by grandmothers in extended households. It shows how social reproduction varies according to the class locations of 23 migrant households in Emnambithi, a community in the northern part of the KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa.
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