Zimbabwe's Migrants and South Africa's Border Farms

Maxim Bolt is Lecturer in Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Birmingham and a Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand. His doctoral thesis, on whose research this monograph draws, was awarded runner-up in the biennial Audrey Richards Prize by the African Studies Association of the UK. He has published in the leading African studies and anthropology journals and serves on the editorial boards of Africa and the Journal of Southern African Studies.

• 1. Introduction; 2. 'It's in our blood, it's in our skin'; 3. Behind the mountain; 4. Producing permanence; 5. Reimagining men; 6. 'Management' or 'paternalism?'; 7. Scaling up; 8. Conclusion.

'This closely attentive ethnography of a particular border farm in the new South Africa adds remarkable experiential and cultural depth to the understanding of migrant farm workers, as they manage and conceptualize work, time, money and relationships in their intimate lives, on and off the farm.' Jane I. Guyer, The Johns Hopkins University