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

Author : Kudakwashe Vanyoro

Publisher : Policy Press

Page : 191 pages

File Size : 27,79 MB

Release : 2024-02-29

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1529225833

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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.



The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality

Author : Heaven Crawley

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 768 pages

File Size : 39,15 MB

Release : 2023-12-27

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3031398149

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This open access handbook examines the phenomenon of South-South migration and its relationship to inequality in the Global South, where at least a third of all international migration takes place. Drawing on contributions from nearly 70 leading migration scholars, mainly from the Global South, the handbook challenges dominant conceptualisations of migration, offering new perspectives and insights that can inform theoretical and policy understandings and unlock migration’s development potential. The handbook is divided into four parts, each highlighting often overlooked mobility patterns within and between regions of the Global South, as well as the inequalities faced by those who move. Key cross-cutting themes include gender, race, poverty and income inequality, migration decision making, intermediaries, remittances, technology, climate change, food security and migration governance. The handbook is an indispensable resource on South-South migration and inequality for academics, researchers, postgraduates and development practitioners.



Temporality in Mobile Lives

Author : Shanthi Robertson

Publisher : Policy Press

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 12,76 MB

Release : 2022-07-12

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1529211522

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This innovative study of young Asian migrants’ lives in Australia sheds new light on the complex relationship between migration and time. With in-depth interviews and a new conceptual framework, Robertson reveals how migration influences the trajectories of migrants’ lives, from career pathways to intimate relationships.



Mediated Emotions of Migration

Author : Sukhmani Khorana

Publisher : Policy Press

Page : 158 pages

File Size : 27,86 MB

Release : 2023-01-03

Category : Affect (Psychology)

ISBN : 1529218233

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This book unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around migration. Drawing on empirical research, grassroots projects with migrants and refugees, and mediated stories of migration and asylum-seeking from the Global North, the book sheds light on the affects of empathy, aspiration and belonging to reveal how they can be harnessed as public emotions of positive collective change. In the face of increasing precariousness and the wake of intersecting global crises, Khorana calls for uncovering the potential of these affects in order to build new forms of care and solidarities across differences.



Social Networks and Migration

Author : Louise Ryan

Publisher : Policy Press

Page : 214 pages

File Size : 39,82 MB

Release : 2024-06-11

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 152921355X

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This intersectional study provides fresh insights into the complex networks of migrants. More than 200 interviews with people following multiple routes over eight decades help to illustrate how social support and trust are developed, how networks evolve over time, and how they impact the opportunities and obstacles migrants encounter.



The German Migration Integration Regime

Author : Morgan Etzel

Publisher : Policy Press

Page : 212 pages

File Size : 50,5 MB

Release : 2023-10-23

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1529231272

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Syrian refugees who gained asylum in Germany following the so-called refugee crisis in 2015 quickly entered into an ‘integration regime’ which produced a binary notion of ‘well integrated’ migrants versus refugees falling short of the narrow social and political definitions of a ‘good’ refugee. Etzel’s rich ethnographic study shows how refugees navigated this conditional inclusion. While some asylum seekers gained international protection, others were left with limited agency to demand government accountability for the ever-moving target of integration. Putting a spotlight on the inconsistencies and failings of a universal approach to integration, this is an important contribution to the wider field of migration and anthropology of the state.



Zimbabwe's Exodus

Author : Jonathan Crush

Publisher : African Books Collective

Page : 434 pages

File Size : 28,41 MB

Release : 2010-07-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1552504999

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The ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe has led to an unprecedented exodus of over a million desperate people from all strata of Zimbabwean society. The Zimbabwean diaspora is now truly global in extent. Yet rather than turning their backs on Zimbabwe, most maintain very close links with the country, returning often and remitting billions of dollars each year. Zimbabwe's Exodus. Crisis, Migration, Survival is written by leading migration scholars many from the Zimbabwean diaspora. The book explores the relationship between Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis and migration as a survival strategy. The book includes personal stories of ordinary Zimbabweans living and working in other countries, who describe the hotility and xenophobia they often experience.



Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis

Author : Vickers, Tom

Publisher : Bristol University Press

Page : 254 pages

File Size : 27,64 MB

Release : 2020-10-14

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1529201829

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This book responds to global tendencies toward increasingly restrictive border controls and populist movements targeting migrants for violence and exclusion. Informed by Marxist theory, it challenges standard narratives about immigration and problematises commonplace distinctions between ‘migrants’ and ‘workers’. Using Britain as a case study, the book examines how these categories have been constructed and mobilised within representations of a ‘migrant crisis’ and a ‘welfare crisis’ to facilitate capitalist exploitation. It uses ideas from grassroots activism to propose alternative understandings of the relationship between borders, migration and class that provide a basis for solidarity.



Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa

Author : Francis Musoni

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 190 pages

File Size : 38,57 MB

Release : 2020-04-07

Category : History

ISBN : 0253047161

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With the end of apartheid rule in South Africa and the ongoing economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the border between these Southern African countries has become one of the busiest inland ports of entry in the world. As border crossers wait for clearance, crime, violence, and illegal entries have become rampant. Francis Musoni observes that border jumping has become a way of life for many of those who live on both sides of the Limpopo River and he explores the reasons for this, including searches for better paying jobs and access to food and clothing at affordable prices. Musoni sets these actions into a framework of illegality. He considers how countries have failed to secure their borders, why passports are denied to travelers, and how border jumping has become a phenomenon with a long history, especially in Africa. Musoni emphasizes cross-border travelers' active participation in the making of this history and how clandestine mobility has presented opportunity and creative possibilities for those who are willing to take the risk.



Time, Migration and Forced Immobility

Author : Stock, Inka

Publisher : Bristol University Press

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 16,91 MB

Release : 2019-06-26

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1529201977

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book is concerned with the effects of migration policy-making in Europe on migrants in the Global South and challenges current migration politics to consider alternative ways of looking at the modern migratory phenomenon. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in Morocco with migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, the author considers current migration dynamics from the perspectives of migrants themselves to examine the long-term social effects of immobility experienced by migrants whom get stuck in ‘transit’ countries. This book is an invaluable learning resource for those wishing to understand the social and political processes that migration policies lead to, particularly in countries in the Global South.