Migration, Crisis and Temporality at the Zimbabwe–South Africa Border

Governing Immobilities

Kudakwashe Vanyoro (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

190 Seiten

2024
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2581-5 (ISBN)

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This insightful book explores the governance of immobilities and temporality in African migration. It shares lessons from the experiences of Zimbabwean migrants fleeing economic crisis to the South African town of Musina and asks what the work of state and non-state actors there tell us about the management of immobile people and places.

Only 15 kilometres away from the border of Zimbabwe, Musina is an obscure town in South Africa that the media cast into the public eye in the wake of the 2008 Zimbabwean economic crisis.

Taking as its starting point the arrival of thousands of displaced Zimbabwean migrants at Musina, this book presents valuable new perspectives on the temporality of migration and the governance of immobilities. The author explores the role of humanitarian actors in supporting migrants and examines the outcomes of government-led activities in the longer term.

This is an insightful assessment of how state and non-state practices intertwine in the management of largely immobile people, and of the importance of time in understanding African migration and borders.

Kudakwashe Vanyoro is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the university’s African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) (2021–3).

Introduction: Zimbabwe’s Crisis and Immobilities

1. Critical Perspectives on African Borders

2. Contesting and Politicising the Zimbabwean Crisis

3. Governing the Crisis at The Zimbabwe-South Africa Border Through Humanitarian Interventions

4. Humanitarian Politics: Ambivalence and Undecidabilities of the Border

5. ‘Laughing at Them in Silence’: Life in the Men’s Transit Shelter

6. ‘This Place is a Bus Stop’: Temporalities of Zimbabwean Migrant Men Waiting at the Transit Shelter

Conclusion: Bringing Time to the Study of Migration Governance and Borders in Africa

Erscheinungsdatum	01.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Global Migration and Social Change
Zusatzinfo	7 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5292-2581-7 / 1529225817
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-2581-5 / 9781529225815
Zustand	Neuware