The Perils and The Promises: Navigating Food Delivery as an African Migrant in Cape Town

This project explores how workers navigate food delivery labour – challenged across the country and the world for its ‘adverse inclusion’ – in a city where their presence as non-nationals is also contested. It asks, how does the labour regime of food delivery shape the lives of its workers? How do these dynamics intersect with the relegated economic, social and political positions migrants occupy in South Africa? And how do migrant couriers assess and respond to these perils and promises?

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