Vanyoro Migration, Crisis and Temporality at the Zimbabwe–South Africa Border

Governing Immobilities
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2582-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Global Migration and Social Change

Only 15 kilometres away from the border of Zimbabwe, Musina is an obscure town in South Africa that the media cast into the public eye in the wake of the 2008 Zimbabwean economic crisis.

Taking as its starting point the arrival of thousands of displaced Zimbabwean migrants at Musina, this book presents valuable new perspectives on the temporality of migration and the governance of immobilities. The author explores the role of humanitarian actors in supporting migrants and examines the outcomes of government-led activities in the longer term.

This is an insightful assessment of how state and non-state practices intertwine in the management of largely immobile people, and of the importance of time in understanding African migration and borders.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vanyoro, Kudakwashe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Resozialisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Zimbabwe’s Crisis and Immobilities

1. Critical Perspectives on African Borders

2. Contesting and Politicising the Zimbabwean Crisis

3. Governing the Crisis at The Zimbabwe-South Africa Border Through Humanitarian Interventions

4. Humanitarian Politics: Ambivalence and Undecidabilities of the Border

5. ‘Laughing at Them in Silence’: Life in the Men’s Transit Shelter

6. ‘This Place is a Bus Stop’: Temporalities of Zimbabwean Migrant Men Waiting at the Transit Shelter

Conclusion: Bringing Time to the Study of Migration Governance and Borders in Africa

Über Autor(innen)

Vanyoro, Kudakwashe
Kudakwashe Vanyoro is a Zimbabwean Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Kudakwashe Vanyoro is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the university’s African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) (2021–3).