Migration, Borders, and Borderlands

Making National Identity in Southern African Communities

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvMunyaradzi Mushonga,John Aerni-Flessner,Chitja Twala,Grey Magaiza

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-10-30
Mått158 x 236 x 24 mm
Vikt635 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor322
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666942804

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Munyaradzi Mushonga is the program director for the Africa Studies Program in the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State.John Aerni-Flessner is associate professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, and research fellow in the Department of History at the University of the Free State.Chitja Twala is professor of history at the University of Limpopo, and research fellow in the Department of History at the University of the Free State.Grey Magaiza is deputy director for the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State, Qwaqwa.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Migration, Borders, and Borderlands in Southern Africa in Historical Perspective by Munyaradzi Mushonga, John Aerni-Flessner, Chitja Twala, and Grey MagaizaPart 1: Bordermaking, Smuggling, and Contemporary ResonancesChapter 1: “Putting Gunboats on the Lake”: Frelimo’s Guerrilla War and Malawi’s Border Dispute with Tanzania in the 1960s by Michael G. PanzerChapter 2: Permit-less Crossing and Tourism: Constructing Border Regimes in the Drakensberg Mountains, 1950s-Present by John Aerni-FlessnerChapter 3: Posted Passports and Fake Stamps: Documented Mobility, Invisibility, and the Informal Enforcement of South Africa’s Border with Zimbabwe by Xolani TshabalalaChapter 4: Contested Borderscapes, Border Farms, and Guided Travels in Zimbabwe’s Struggle for Self-Rule, 1960-1970s by Nicholas NyachegaPart 2: (Im)Mobilities, Transnational Communities, and SettlementChapter 5: “The River is a Natural Resource, not a Border?” Understanding Tonga Borderland Community Res

[The]... authors manage to clarify the complex and shifting factors and outcomesof the unique border policies, histories, regulations, and cultures of the region, managing tocapture the complexity of borders and migration in the region, particularly both existentialbut also tangible ramifications that state regulation of borders – typically in unequal, punitive,and prejudicial policies – have on local communities around the borders.