Zimbabwe's new diaspora : displacement and the cultural politics of survival

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Title:

Author:

McGregor, JoAnn.

ISBN:

9781845456580

Publication Information:

New York : Berghahn Books, c2010.

Physical Description:

vi, 286 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in forced migration ; v. 31

Studies in forced migration ; v. 31.

Contents:

Introduction: The making of Zimbabwe's new Diaspora / JoAnn McGregor -- Makwerekwere: migration, citizenship and identity among Zimbabweans in South Africa / James Muzondidya --Zimbabwean farmworkers in Limpopo Province, South Africa / Blair Rutherford -- The politics of legal status for Zimbabweans in South Africa / Norma Kriger -- Zimbabwean transnational Diaspora politics in Britain / Dominic Pasura -- Diaspora and dignity: navigating and contesting civic exclusion in Britain / JoAnn McGregor -- Burial at home? Dealing with death in the Diaspora and Harare / Beacon Mbiba -- Negotiating transnational families: HIV positive Zimbabwean women's accounts of obligation and support / Martha Chinouya -- Debating 'Zimbabweanness' in Diasporic internet forums: technologies of freedom? / Winston Mano and Wendy Willems -- Rhodesians never die? The Zimbabwe crisis and the revival of Rhodesian discourse / Ranka Primorac -- Exile and the internet: Ndebele and mixed- race online diaspora 'homes' / Clayton Peel -- One dandelion seed-head / Brian Chikwava, introduced by Ranka Primorac -- 'Making new connections': interview with Brian Chikwava / Ranka Primorac.

Subject Term:

Zimbabweans -- Foreign countries -- Politics and government.

Forced migration -- Zimbabwe.

Added Author:

McGregor, JoAnn.

Primorac, Ranka.

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Summary

Zimbabwe's crisis since 2000 has produced a dramatic global scattering of people. This volume investigates this enforced dispersal, and the processes shaping the emergence of a new "diaspora" of Zimbabweans abroad, focusing on the most important concentrations in South Africa and in Britain. Not only is this the first book on the diasporic connections created through Zimbabwe's multifaceted crisis, but it also offers an innovative combination of research on the political, economic, cultural and legal dimensions of movement across borders and survival thereafter with a discussion of shifting identities and cultural change. It highlights the ways in which new movements are connected to older flows, and how displacements across physical borders are intimately linked to the reworking of conceptual borders in both sending and receiving states. The book is essential reading for researchers/students in migration, diaspora and postcolonial literary studies.