Xulu-Gama, Nomkhosi is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town in the Department of Sociology and a Fulbright scholar. She is also a Honorary Research Affiliate at the Faculty of Management Sciences at the Durban University of Technology. She is part of the South African Review of Sociology Journal Editorial Collective and a former vice president of the South African Sociological Association. Her research interests include hostels, rural-urban connections, migration, livelihoods, gender, higher education. Her latest publications include (2024) Xulu-Gama N & Mlambo, Y. (Un)paid social reproductive labour at a taxi rank in Cape Town, South Africa. Gender Questions (2024) Xulu-Gama N. From the City’s supposed ‘Edge’ in (eds) Oldfield, S, Selmeczi, A & Barnett C.  Knowing the City: South African Urban Scholarship from apartheid to democracy. University of KwaZulu Natal Press. Pietermaritzburg.