A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, June 2017. / Tourism contributes to economic development in both developed and developing countries. Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) travel is one of the largest forms of tourism on a global level. However, there has been limited research over the past decades on VFR travel. In recent times, VFR travel has attracted the attention of researchers due to increasing rate of migration resulting in the promotion of regional tourism through VFR travel. Despite the influx of migrants in South Africa, research on international VFR travel has been limited as most research on VFR travel has been on local level from one province to another. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the expenditure pattern of Zimbabweans travelling to and from South Africa for VFR purposes. Furthermore, the study seeks to identify the benefits of VFR travel to individual households in Zimbabwe. Using a quantitative framework, 200 questionnaires were distributed to Zimbabweans and a Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) was used as an analysis tool. The theory of consumer behaviour was implemented to discuss and analyse the findings, revealing that VFR travellers from South Africa spend more than VFR travellers to South Africa on transport cost, food and beverages, entertainment and financial remittances. The expenditure is based on socio-demographic and travel-related characteristics. As a result of VFR travellers’ expenditure, the benefits, which are directed to individual households in Zimbabwe, include household upkeep, education, business investment, health and other reasons. Thus this study focuses attention on international VFR travel and its contribution to the tourism economy in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Key Words: Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR), Tourism, Migration, Expenditure, Regional Tourism, South Africa, Zimbabwe. / XL2018

As the economic hub of South Africa, Johannesburg attracts cross-border migrants in search of improved livelihoods; over half the population of some of its inner-city suburbs are made up of cross border migrants. Globally as well as locally, foreigners have been blamed for the spread of diseases such as HIV. As a result, they have suffered challenges in accessing public healthcare, particularly antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV. Studies have shown that despite these challenges - foreigners experienced better ART outcomes than nationals. There is a need to explore the ways in which cross border migrants use to access and to stay on treatment, given the wide-range of challenges that they face during their stay in Johannesburg. Semi-structured interviews with five nurses and ten cross-border migrants currently receiving ART, along with non-participant observations, were used to collect data from two public clinics in inner-city Johannesburg. Analysis suggests that the family network in the country of origin remains critical, as cross border migrants are not disclosing their status in the city in which they live, but do so to their families in their countries of origin. Data shows that when it comes to accessing and staying on treatment, cross-border migrants go to the clinic every month as do nationals; ask for more treatment from nurses when going home temporarily; eat healthily; but hide when taking medication, and negotiate confidentiality and trust within their families in countries of origin. Some are found to access treatment in their countries of origin while staying in Johannesburg. Despite the lack of social networks in the inner city, this data suggests that cross-border migrants are successful in accessing and continuing with ART. There is need for future research to look at social networks for internal migrants, so as to compare results.

Tese aborda, inicialmente, a mobilidade de médicos pelo mundo a partir de levantamento bibliográfico em base de dados. Identifica a escassez de informações referentes aos médicos brasileiros, apesar de existirem algumas evidências a respeito da emigração destes profissionais para exercerem sua profissão em outros países. OBJETIVO: analisar aspectos que determinam a emigração de médicos brasileiros para os EUA. METODOLOGIA: a principio foi realizada uma etapa exploratória, seguida de levantamento de dados em conselhos de classe brasileiros e sites norte-americanos. Utilizou-se uma amostra por conveniência através da técnica \"bola de neve\"; identificou-se a existência de médicos que emigraram; foi enviado, via e-mail, questionário elaborado pela autora com questões fechadas e abertas a respeito dos motivos pelos quais escolheram os EUA para emigrar, por que foram, por que ficaram, por que voltariam e por que não voltariam a morar no Brasil. Realizadas algumas entrevistas por Skype. Foi realizada a tabulação dos dados quanti e qualitativos. RESULTADOS: inicialmente os médicos escolhem emigrar por motivos pessoais (família, oportunidades profissionais, oportunidades em geral, facilidade do idioma); ao se estabelecerem nos EUA vivenciam uma nova forma de vida, o que os faz escolher permanecer (melhores condições de trabalho, qualidade de vida, família e oportunidades gerais); as causas do não retorno ao Brasil passam a ter motivos externos (insegurança, cenários profissional, politico e econômico). CONCLUSÃO: existe um processo emigratório de médicos brasileiros para os EUA; a principio a vontade de emigrar não está bem definida; o salário não é citado como questão primordial para emigrar; a presença da família facilita a permanência no país; fluência na língua inglesa é fundamental e é necessário recomeçar a vida profissional como um recém-formado em medicina pois não existe processo de validação de diploma ou de especialidades / OBJECTIVE: to analyze aspects that determine the emigration of Brazilian doctors to the United States of America. METHODOLOGY: at first there was an exploratory stage, followed by a data collection in Brazilian professional associations and North American websites. A sample by convenience was used through the \"snowball\" technique; the existence of doctors that emigrated was identified; a questionnaire, elaborated by the author with closed and open questions, was sent by e-mail, regarding their motives to choose the USA to emigrate, why they have gone, why they stayed and why they would or wouldn\'t come back to live in Brazil. A few interviews were made by Skype. A tabulation of the quantitative and qualitative data was made. RESULTS: initially the doctors choose to emigrate for personal motives (family, professional opportunities, general opportunities, no language barriers); when established in the USA, they experience a new way of life that makes them stay (better work condition, quality of life, family and general opportunities); external motives become the cause not to come back to Brazil (the lack of security, professional, political and economic scenarios). CONCLUSION: there is an emigrational process of Brazilian doctors to the USA; at first the will to emigrate is not well defined; the salary is not mentioned as a primal reason to emigrate; the presence of the family eases the stay in the country; the proficiency in the English language is fundamental and it is necessary to restart the professional life as a recently graduated in med school since there isn\'t an university degree or medical specialty degree validation.

Tese aborda, inicialmente, a mobilidade de médicos pelo mundo a partir de levantamento bibliográfico em base de dados. Identifica a escassez de informações referentes aos médicos brasileiros, apesar de existirem algumas evidências a respeito da emigração destes profissionais para exercerem sua profissão em outros países. OBJETIVO: analisar aspectos que determinam a emigração de médicos brasileiros para os EUA. METODOLOGIA: a principio foi realizada uma etapa exploratória, seguida de levantamento de dados em conselhos de classe brasileiros e sites norte-americanos. Utilizou-se uma amostra por conveniência através da técnica \"bola de neve\"; identificou-se a existência de médicos que emigraram; foi enviado, via e-mail, questionário elaborado pela autora com questões fechadas e abertas a respeito dos motivos pelos quais escolheram os EUA para emigrar, por que foram, por que ficaram, por que voltariam e por que não voltariam a morar no Brasil. Realizadas algumas entrevistas por Skype. Foi realizada a tabulação dos dados quanti e qualitativos. RESULTADOS: inicialmente os médicos escolhem emigrar por motivos pessoais (família, oportunidades profissionais, oportunidades em geral, facilidade do idioma); ao se estabelecerem nos EUA vivenciam uma nova forma de vida, o que os faz escolher permanecer (melhores condições de trabalho, qualidade de vida, família e oportunidades gerais); as causas do não retorno ao Brasil passam a ter motivos externos (insegurança, cenários profissional, politico e econômico). CONCLUSÃO: existe um processo emigratório de médicos brasileiros para os EUA; a principio a vontade de emigrar não está bem definida; o salário não é citado como questão primordial para emigrar; a presença da família facilita a permanência no país; fluência na língua inglesa é fundamental e é necessário recomeçar a vida profissional como um recém-formado em medicina pois não existe processo de validação de diploma ou de especialidades / OBJECTIVE: to analyze aspects that determine the emigration of Brazilian doctors to the United States of America. METHODOLOGY: at first there was an exploratory stage, followed by a data collection in Brazilian professional associations and North American websites. A sample by convenience was used through the \"snowball\" technique; the existence of doctors that emigrated was identified; a questionnaire, elaborated by the author with closed and open questions, was sent by e-mail, regarding their motives to choose the USA to emigrate, why they have gone, why they stayed and why they would or wouldn\'t come back to live in Brazil. A few interviews were made by Skype. A tabulation of the quantitative and qualitative data was made. RESULTS: initially the doctors choose to emigrate for personal motives (family, professional opportunities, general opportunities, no language barriers); when established in the USA, they experience a new way of life that makes them stay (better work condition, quality of life, family and general opportunities); external motives become the cause not to come back to Brazil (the lack of security, professional, political and economic scenarios). CONCLUSION: there is an emigrational process of Brazilian doctors to the USA; at first the will to emigrate is not well defined; the salary is not mentioned as a primal reason to emigrate; the presence of the family eases the stay in the country; the proficiency in the English language is fundamental and it is necessary to restart the professional life as a recently graduated in med school since there isn\'t an university degree or medical specialty degree validation.

Theorists of constitutional patriotism argue that the binding sentiment of shared national identity can be replaced with allegiance to universal principles, interpreted into particular constitutions through ongoing deliberative processes. In this thesis, I explore the implications of such an approach for the defensibility of restrictions on migration, a subject which has previously received very little attention. I argue that constitutional patriotism implies a commitment to the free movement of individuals across borders; but that freedom of movement itself creates challenges for the implementation of constitutional patriotism. This is because it may increase anti-immigrant, nationalist sentiment in the host community. I term this phenomenon the ‘post-national paradox’. I then draw on independently collected qualitative data on Eastern European migration to English rural communities to explore this post-national paradox. I analyse the argumentative strategies, as the well as the perceptions of difference, evident in justifications of anti-immigrant and nationalist sentiment in these contexts. I highlight both perceptions of cultural and economic threat, as well as a ‘banal’ sense of national loyalty, underpinning such attitudes; and suggest that discursive practice at the most local level is necessary for the bottom up construction, or growth, of an inclusive form of identity and belonging.

The housing wealth experiences of ethnic minority home owners is relatively unexplored within the UK literature. This thesis makes a contribution to this field by exploring the experiences of African Caribbean post war families. There are a number of original points of departure to this literature that this study makes. Links are made with Caribbean migration and social anthropology literatures in developing fresh perspectives on the study of housing wealth among this group. The study avoids treating housing wealth in isolation from other networks within African Caribbean communities. Instead it develops a single asset network that positions housing wealth within a broader resource framework used to interpret home ownership careers and return migration planning. The study incorporates literature drawn from cultural consumption theory in exploring values and meanings attached to inheritances in the UK and Caribbean. An original methodological contribution is made in the use of life history methods in exploring consumption and transmission of housing wealth across two generations of the same family. The 13 families included in the study are drawn from Birmingham and London. The findings suggest that there is a complex interaction of networks used throughout home ownership careers. Informal financial networks in the form of intergenerational exchanges are used in supporting younger family members at the start of home ownership careers. There is evidence that inheritance of 'family land' in the Caribbean provided a focus for the investment of UK housing wealth to facilitate return migration. Other forms of housing wealth leakage took place, with evidence of investments in second homes in the Caribbean, kinship networks and entrepreneurial activity. This investment of UK housing assets in second homes across the Caribbean region suggests the creation of 'transnational housing markets'.

My research bridges the gap between Anglophone postcolonial studies and Francophone literary studies by looking at Francophone literature from West and Equatorial Africa, which remains under-studied in France. This work answers key questions: how can this literature be interpreted beyond its current confines? How does it rethink local and global identities? What theoretical configurations can be applied to these writers to bring them into greater academic and public prominence? I propose a comprehensive analysis of this literature’s significance in the world through a comparative reading of five contemporary regional novels in their political, social and historical context. This multidirectional reading allows me to evoke what Dominic Thomas calls an ‘intercultural dynamics’ in which colonialism ‘finds itself relocated as a mechanism that proceeds from globalization’, and integrates various spatial zones in which thinking is produced. It brings forward key writers situated ‘outside of the parameters of Frenchness’ inscribed in cosmopolitan decolonizing and cultural reconstruction trends, such as Léonora Miano, a young Cameroonian author and winner of six French literary prizes; Fatou Diome, a Senegalese best-selling writer; Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou from Togo, 63 and in political exile; one contemporary writer, Kangni Alem (Togo), and one more established intellectual, Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal).

This thesis examines the twenty-first-century intercultural performance of Shakespeare in Kerala, India. The thesis highlights Shakespeare’s function in invigorating local performing arts traditions that navigate tensions between paradigms of former feudalism, post-Independence democracy and capitalist globalisation. Throughout, individual artistic perspectives in interview illustrate local productions of \(Macbeth\) for indigenous Keralan performing art forms, ranging from the two-thousand-year old kutiyattam to contemporary postmodern Malayalam-language drama. My introduction contextualises these hybrid productions in their global, national, and local historiography, exploring intersections of the sacred, supernatural, and secular; postmodernism and rasa theory; intercultural Shakespeares and Keralan performing arts; and Shakespearean works with Indian literary and theatrical traditions from the colonial to the postmillennial era. Chapter One highlights cultural translation, focusing on kutiyattam artist Margi Madhu’s 2011 \(Macbeth\); Chapter Two discusses cultural collaboration, studying kathakali artist Ettumanoor P. Kannan’s \(Macbeth\) \(Cholliyattam\), 2013; Chapter Three considers cultural fusion, profiling Abhinaya Theatre’s experimental local-language production of \(Macbeth\), 2011. In closing, the thesis underscores the importance of giving a voice to Keralan theatre artists on Shakespeare, recognising the hitherto critically unexamined potential for the meeting point of two great dramatic cultural traditions as a forum, underpinned by residual colonial and Communist legacies, for intercultural discourse.

This dissertation explores the experience of Indian immigrants to the United States in the early twentieth century through an examination of the self-published writings of Dinshah P. Ghadiali, a Parsi Zoroastrian who immigrated to the United States with the hope of establishing himself as an important inventor but instead earned notoriety as a charismatic if irrepressible quack. With his family, Ghadiali settled in New Jersey in 1911, and became a naturalized citizen in 1917, the same year that Congress banned further immigration from all of Asia. He purchased a printing press early in his career to promote his discoveries but gradually repurposed it to archiving the many injuries and affronts he suffered in his encounters with immigration officials, police, journalists, judges, and juries. Ghadiali was arrested several times throughout his career for laws governing the practice of medicine, but he became the target of increasingly racialized persecution after he married a white woman in 1923. He was accused of "white slavery" and sentenced to prison for five years. In 1932, the government sought to strip him of his citizenship. Ghadiali believed he had been singled out for persecution by professional rivals--in fact, he was caught in a much broader campaign to denaturalize citizens of Indian origin after the Supreme Court, in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923), determined that Indians were "racially ineligible" for citizenship. The volumes examined here consist mainly of Ghadiali's reconstructions of his many encounters with the law. Rather than a biography or cultural study of racialization, this dissertation explores the way in which immigrant subjects participate in the crafting of personhood or subjectivity through violent and mundane encounters with legal institutions, legal language, and legal form.

This thesis is an ethnographic investigation into how Pentecostalism impacts on the religious, family and work life of Nigerian migrants in London, and overall how such religious engagement shapes informants' relationship with the United Kingdom. It brings together the study of migration, Pentecostal Christianity and gender relations. The thesis focuses on the members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). The RCCG is one of the biggest Pentecostal churches in Nigeria, where it has developed into a significant social and political player and has spread worldwide. In London, the RCCG caters for a good portion of the local Nigerian Christian community. The RCCG is part of a transnational social and moral field that I term ‘London-Lagos', which Nigerian migrants inhabit. RCCG members' relationships in church, with significant others and with wider society are embedded in power relations – relations that are mediated and rendered meaningful by a Pentecostal morality. The negotiation of moral authority is therefore central theme in this thesis. I trace how it shapes and is shaped by church doctrines and wider British society. The central modes employed to mould Pentecostal Nigerian selves in London are self-discipline, the dialectic of submission and responsibility, and the disciplining of others. Such dynamics around Pentecostal authority are crucially articulated in gendered terms. Hence, they are investigated in relation to gendering processes in singlehood, marriage and the raising of children. The requirements of non-Pentecostal contexts such as wider British society and state institutions sometimes contradict this three-fold way of becoming a morally sound Pentecostal. To navigate this tense and morally complex situation RCCG members tend to employ skills (‘smartness') they have obtained in Nigeria.