While recognizing that women are part of the most vulnerable sections of migrant communities, the article affirms their social agency by locating their responses to difficulties they face as migrants within a framework of precarious resistance. Based on indepth interviews with Zimbabwean migrant women working in Johannesburg, South Africa, the article discusses a duality of precarious work and precarious resistance. Women who would have been carers of families at their homes in Zimbabwe, and been supported financially by men who worked in the cities like Johannesburg, are now breadwinners who take risks by travelling to Johannesburg in search of work. The first aspect dealt with in this paper narrates problems faced by the women when travelling to Johannesburg. Being women doubles the risk in a way as the women have to deal with violence against women and generalized lack of basic services and goods like those necessary for female hygiene and washing facilities. Arriving in Johannesburg means the beginning of a new struggle of searching for work and finding work which tends to be precarious. As a response to this precariousness, the second aspect of this duality comes into play where the female workers amass strategies and tactics which are defined as precarious resistance, because they are individualized and isolated. However, networks play a major role in anchoring precarious resistance of the women migrants who work as precarious workers in Johannesburg.

虽然承认妇女是移民社区中最弱势群体的一部分，但文章通过将她们对作为移民所面临的困难的反应定位在不稳定的抵抗框架内来肯定她们的社会能动性。基于对在南非约翰内斯堡工作的津巴布韦移民妇女的深入采访，本文讨论了不稳定的工作和不稳定的抵抗的双重性。原本在津巴布韦的家中照顾家庭的女性，并得到在约翰内斯堡等城市工作的男性的经济支持，现在她们承担了到约翰内斯堡寻找工作的风险，成为养家糊口的人。本文涉及的第一个方面叙述了妇女在前往约翰内斯堡时所面临的问题。身为女性在某种程度上使风险增加了一倍，因为女性必须应对针对女性的暴力行为以及普遍缺乏基本服务和商品，例如女性卫生和洗涤设施所需的那些。到达约翰内斯堡意味着寻找工作和寻找工作的新斗争的开始，这往往是不稳定的。作为对这种不稳定的回应，这种二元性的第二个方面发挥了作用，女工们积累了被定义为不稳定抵抗的战略和战术，因为她们是个体化的和孤立的。然而，网络在锚定在约翰内斯堡担任不稳定工人的女性移民的不稳定抵抗方面发挥了重要作用。到达约翰内斯堡意味着寻找工作和寻找工作的新斗争的开始，这往往是不稳定的。作为对这种不稳定的回应，这种二元性的第二个方面发挥了作用，女工们聚集了被定义为不稳定抵抗的战略和策略，因为她们是个体化的和孤立的。然而，网络在锚定在约翰内斯堡担任不稳定工人的女性移民的不稳定抵抗方面发挥了重要作用。到达约翰内斯堡意味着寻找工作和寻找工作的新斗争的开始，这往往是不稳定的。作为对这种不稳定的回应，这种二元性的第二个方面发挥了作用，女工们聚集了被定义为不稳定抵抗的战略和策略，因为她们是个体化的和孤立的。然而，网络在锚定在约翰内斯堡担任不稳定工人的女性移民的不稳定抵抗方面发挥了重要作用。