Migration, Borders, and Borderlands

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.