Class-switching: Migrants’ multiple class identities in rural and urban Namibia

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2020
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  • AIDS/HIV
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1
  • Antiretroviral Therapy
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  • Pentecostalism
  • Religion
  • AIDS/HIV
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1
  • Antiretroviral Therapy
  • Pentecostal
  • Pentecostalism
  • Religion
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  • To better understand migrants’ adjustments to varying class structures at multiple places, the linguistic concept of code-switching is translated into the novel concept of class-switching. I suggest that class positions, like language repertoires, can be switched. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Namibia, this article examines middle-class urbanites’ class-switching. Since independence, a new black middle class has emerged in Namibia, one that is still strongly con-nected to its rural homelands. Members of this middle class switch into rural elite structures when visiting their home villages; however, most of the time, they live urban middle-class lives. Focusing on this emerging middle class, I trace the flexibility of class identities through migrants’ switching of class and place.
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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