Zimbabwe's New Diaspora

Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84545-658-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 611 g

Reihe: Forced Migration

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcgregor, Joann

Primorac, Ranka

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors’ Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Making of Zimbabwe’s New Diaspora

JoAnn McGregor

PART I: ZIMBABWEAN DIASPORIC COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Chapter 2. Makwerekwere: Migration, Citizenship and Identity among Zimbabweans in South Africa

James Muzondidya

Chapter 3. Zimbabwean Farmworkers in Limpopo Province, South Africa

Blair Rutherford

Chapter 4.The Politics of Legal Status for Zimbabweans in South Africa

Norma Kriger

PART II: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF SURVIVAL IN BRITAIN

Chapter 5. Zimbabwean Transnational Diaspora Politics in Britain

Dominic Pasura

Chapter 6. Diaspora and Dignity: Navigating and Contesting Civic Exclusion in the UK

JoAnn McGregor

Chapter 7. Burial at Home? Negotiating Death in the Diaspora and Harare

Beacon Mbiba

Chapter 8. Maintaining Transnational Families: HIV Positive Zimbabwean Women’s Narratives of Obligation and Support

Martha Chinouya

PART III: DIASPORIC IDENTITIES AND TRANSNATIONAL MEDIA

Chapter 9. Debating 'Zimbabweanness' in Diasporic Internet Forums: Technologies of Freedom?

Winston Mano and Wendy Willems

Chapter 10. Rhodesians Never Die? The Zimbabwe Crisis and the Revival of Rhodesian Discourse

Ranka Primorac

Chapter 11. Exile and the Internet: Ndebele and Mixed-Race Diaspora ‘Homes’ Online

Clayton Peel

Chapter 12. One Dandelion Seedhead

Brian Chikwava, introduced by Ranka Primorac

Über Autor(innen)

Mcgregor, Joann
JoAnn McGregor is Lecturer at University College London. She has published on Zimbabwean politics, society and history, and on forced migration. She is co-author of Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the Dark Forests of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe (2000) and co-edits the Journal of Southern African Studies.

Primorac, Ranka
Ranka Primorac is Teaching Fellow at University of Southampton. She has published on Zimbabwean literature and culture, and is author of The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe and co-editor of Zimbabwe in Crisis: The International Response and the Space of Silence (2007).

JoAnn McGregor is Lecturer at University College London. She has published on Zimbabwean politics, society and history, and on forced migration. She is co-author of Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the Dark Forests of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe (2000) and co-edits the Journal of Southern African Studies.