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Title: | The Socio-Economic Impact of African Migrant Women's Entrepreneurial Activities in South Africa |
Author: | Ojong, Vivian B. |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Africanus |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 142-153 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | women migrants women entrepreneurs Ghanaians Development and Technology Economics and Trade Labor and Employment Women's Issues Urbanization and Migration migration economics urbanization |
Abstract: | African women of foreign origin have become a visible presence in entrepreneurial activities in postapartheid South Africa, but the socioeconomic impact of their activities has yet to be properly researched. This article examines why African migrant women become entrepreneurs, focussing on Ghanaian hairdressers in Durban. It shows that migrant entrepreneurs such as hairdressers offer unique expertise, based on first-hand knowledge from their country of origin. When migrant female entrepreneurs introduce new products, use new methods of marketing and offer new services, they often become effective innovators. While restrictive immigration laws hamper the work of these women, they employ a variety of innovative strategies which enable them to make a contribution to the development of the country by providing employment and transmitting skills to South Africans. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |