Making life liveable in an informal market Infrastructures of friendship amongst migrant street traders in Durban, South Africa

dc.contributor.author	Mbatha, Nomkhosi
dc.contributor.author	Koskimaki, Leah
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-26T07:39:04Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-26T07:39:04Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	African migrants working in street trading business in Durban, South Africa oft en face xenophobia and must navigate policies regulating the informal economy. However, they sustain livelihoods in urban markets through building friendships while maintaining transnational connections back home. Based on qualitative research conducted in 2019 and 2021 with thirty street traders from Senegal, The Gambia, Nigeria, and Malawi at the Workshop Flea Market in Durban, the article interrogates the way in which friendship and conviviality emerge in informal market spaces. Building on AbdouMaliq Simone’s concept of “people as infrastructure,” we show how migrant street traders in the Workshop Market invest in the urban collective, while locally and transnationally connected through economic and aff ective exchanges.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ARMS.2023.060105
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10566/9270
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Berghahn Journals	en_US
dc.subject	Conviviality	en_US
dc.subject	Friendship	en_US
dc.subject	Informal economy	en_US
dc.subject	Migrant infrastructure	en_US
dc.subject	Migrant street traders	en_US
dc.title	Making life liveable in an informal market Infrastructures of friendship amongst migrant street traders in Durban, South Africa	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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