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Migration, Borders, and Borderlands
Making National Identity in Southern African Communities
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2023
Summary
Compiling various perspectives from borderlands across the SADC region, Migration, Borders, and Borderlands: Making National Identity in Southern African Communities, edited by Munyaradzi Mushonga, John Aerni-Flessner, Chitja Twala, and Grey Magaiza, provides a synthesis of the experiences of borderland residents in this economically and socially integrated region. This book reframes debates around nationalism and belonging in southern Africa as it uses the idea of a “borderscape” to argue that nations are made at the border and in the contestations that take place in the borderlands. Understanding borders and bordering in the SADC region is crucial to understanding how policies made in oft-distant national capitals have played out among borderlands residents over time. The contributors present why national citizens in SADC so often end up in countries distant from where they were born and reside, and why leaders need to be cognizant of this. Exploring gender, history, policy, and the ways that people have moved across borders despite a myriad of restrictions stretching from the early twentieth century to the present, this collection centers the voices and experiences of the most marginal to make the plea for a more humane border regime in Southern Africa and globally.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-4280-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-4281-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
312
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Bibliography No access Pages 13 - 16
Chapter 1: “Putting Gunboats on the Lake”: Frelimo’s Guerrilla War and Malawi’s Border Dispute with Tanzania in the 1960s No access
Chapter 2: Permitless Crossing and Tourism: Constructing Border Regimes in the Drakensberg Mountains, 1950s–Present No access
Chapter 3: Posted Passports and Fake Stamps: Documented Mobility, Invisibility, and the Informal Enforcement of South Africa’s Border with Zimbabwe No access
Chapter 4: Contested Borderscapes, Border Farms, and Guided Travels in Zimbabwe’s Struggle for Self-Rule, 1960–1970s No access
Chapter 5: “The River Is a Natural Resource, Not a Border?”: Understanding Tonga Borderland Community Responses to State Border Security Policy in Binga District of Zimbabwe, c. 1957 to 2017 No access
Chapter 6: Crossing a “Fictitious” Border: Angolan Refugees’ Mobility and Settling Dynamics in the Lower-Congo (1950s–1970s) No access
Chapter 7: Angolan and Mozambican Border Towns: Interconnecting and Consolidating Southern African Mobilities No access
Chapter 8: Cross-Border Mobility of Mozambicans to South Africa and the Growth of Informal Trade in the City of Xai-Xai 2005–2022 No access
Chapter 9: Cultural Capital, Virtual Borderlands, and the Making of the Southern African Communities in Two Zambian Novels No access
Chapter 10: “You Have to Pay with Your Body”: The Precarity of Subaltern Basotho Migrant Women within the Lesotho-South Africa Border(land)s No access
Chapter 11: Women Entrepreneurs and Border Jumpers in the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border No access
Chapter 12: Of Paqama Gates and Paqama Scouts: The Innerworkings of Regulated Illegal and Irregular Border Crossing between Lesotho and South Africa No access
