Migration, Borders, and Borderlands (eBook, ePUB)

Making National Identity in Southern African Communities
Redaktion: Mushonga, Munyaradzi; Magaiza, Grey; Twala, Chitja; Aerni-Flessner, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666942811
• Artikelnr.: 68619562

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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