Migration, borders, and borderlands : making national identity in Southern African communities / edited by Munyaradzi Mushonga, John Aerni-Flessner, Chitja Twala and Grey Magaiza.

Format Book
PublicationLanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2024]
Descriptionix, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorMushonga, Munyaradzi, editor, author.
Other author/creatorAerni-Flessner, John, editor, author.
Other author/creatorTwala, Chitja editor, author.
Other author/creatorMagaiza, Grey, editor, author.
Contents Introduction: Migration, Borders, and Borderlands in Southern Africa in Historical Perspective / Munyaradzi Mushonga, John Aerni-Flessner, Chitja Twala, and Grey Magaiza -- "Putting Gunboats on the Lake": Frelimo's Guerrilla War and Malawi's Border Dispute with Tanzania in the 1960s / Michael G. Panzer -- Permitless Crossing and Tourism: Constructing Border Regimes in the Drakensberg Mountains, 1950s-Present / John Aerni-Flessner -- Posted Passports and Fake Stamps: Documented Mobility, Invisibility, and the Informal Enforcement of South Africa's Border with Zimbabwe / Xolani Tshabalala -- Contested Borderscapes, Border Farms, and Guided Travels in Zimbabwe's Struggle for Self-Rule, 1960-1970s / Nicholas Nyachega -- "The River is a Natural Resource, not a Border?": Understanding Tonga Borderland Community Responses to State Border Security Policy in Binga District of Zimbabwe, c. 1957 to 2017 / Teverayi Muguti -- Crossing a "Ficticious" Border: Angolan Refugees' Mobility and Settling Dynamics in the Lower-Congo (1950s-1970s) / Ana Guardião -- Angolan and Mozambican Border Towns: Interconnecting and Consolidating Southern African Mobilities / Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues -- Cross-Border Mobility of Mozambicans to South Africa and the Growth of Informal Trade in the City of Xai-Xai, 2005-2022 / Victor Simões Henrique -- Cultural Capital, Virtual Borderlands and the Making of the Southern African Communities in Two Zambian Novels / Mwaka Siluonde -- "You Have to Pay with Your Body": The Precarity of Subaltern Basotho Migrant Women within the Lesotho-South Africa Border(land)s / Munyaradzi Mushonga and Stephanie Cawood -- Women Entrepreneurs and Border Jumpers in the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border / Francis Musoni -- Of Paqama Gates and Paqama Scouts: The Innerworkings of Regulated Illegal and Irregular Border Crossing Between Lesotho and South Africa / Chitja Twala and Grey Magaiza.
Abstract "Using a historical lens to interrogate why and how people cross borders in the SADC region, this book explains how nation-states and national communities are made in the borderlands and shows how communities and individuals have fought back against regimes attempting to contain and control them through securitized borders"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Migration, borders, and borderlands Lanham : Lexington Books, 2023 9781666942811
LCCN 2023036525
ISBN9781666942804
ISBN1666942804 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book