Marginality, Migration and Education

Dr. Winniefridah Matsa is a Senior Lecturer at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. Her research interests include aspects of gender and migration as they pertain to culture, environment, education, women, and sociological issues. 

Chapter 1: Background to the nature of international migration in the african continent and zimbabwe.- Chapter 2: Geo-physical and the socio-economic learning environments for migrants'children: converging experiences of migration and marginality on the education of boys and girls in bulilima and mangwe.- Chapter 3: Gender and the nature of migration: absence of one or both parents.- Chapter 4: Effects of migration elsewhere and zimbabwe.- Chapter 5: Educational challenges of migrants' children at home and school: teachers, leaners and caregivers' perspectives.- Chapter 6: Low cost" boarding and "child renters": boys and girls schooling in risky physical and social environments in bulilima and mangwe.- Chapter 7: Children belonging to "no one": learners trapped in strained and suspicious relationships.- Chapter 8: The impact of migration on the family and childrens' rights: gendered perspective.- Chapter 9: "Silent wars" between migrants' children and teachers, teachers and migrant parents: gendered 'war'.- Chapter 10: Intervention strategies for equity in education: syncronised and co-ordinated model to help learners cope with absence of parents due to migration in zimbabwe.- Chapter 11: Implications of the book.