Full Description
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.
Contents
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
