Childhood and children's migration in the era of COVID-19: A case study of Zimbabwean children/young people's migration to South Africa

Madziva, Roda; Mahiya, Innocent; Nyoni, Chamunogwa

Abstract

This paper draws on research with a group of Zimbabwean orphaned young people. It explores their experiences of migrating to South Africa during the COVID-19 period when official borders were closed. It draws attention to the complexities of south–south migration in the era of COVID-19 in a way that situates the orphaned child migrants as having contradictory, fluid identities that are simultaneously victimised, agentic and infinitely more complex than the dominant binary representation of adult/child.

Citation

Madziva, R., Mahiya, I., & Nyoni, C. (2022). Childhood and children's migration in the era of COVID-19: A case study of Zimbabwean children/young people's migration to South Africa. Children & Society, https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12680

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 2, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Dec 20, 2022
• Publication Date: Dec 20, 2022
• Deposit Date: Dec 15, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 15, 2022
• Journal: Children and Society
• Print ISSN: 0951-0605
• Electronic ISSN: 1099-0860
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12680
• Keywords: Life-span and Life-course Studies; Education; Health (social science)
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/14891357
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/chso.12680