When parents migrate, leaving their children in the origin country, transnational families are formed. Transnational family studies on children who are “left behind” indicate that children suffer psychologically from parental migration. Many of the factors identified as affecting children's...

Domestic work has undergone considerable mutations in South Africa in a decade. The collapse of the apartheid system first led to the development of part time labour, which enables employees to escape from the system of lodging by the employer. The crisis of the fordist production system...

[eng] Claire Bénit and Marianne Morange — Domestic workers, the city and access to work at the Cape and in Johannesburg : Proximity and network logics.. Domestic work has undergone considerable mutations in South Africa in a decade. The collapse of the apartheid system first led to the...