Research Catalog

Title

Zimbabwe's new diaspora : displacement and the cultural politics of survival / edited by JoAnn McGregor and Ranka Primorac.

Publication

• New York : Berghahn Books, [2010]
• ©2010

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Details

Additional Authors

• McGregor, JoAnn
• Primorac, Ranka

Description

vi, 286 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"'Impressively well informed and up to date both factually and theoretically, the book should be read by all those interested in new African diasporas. It will undoubtedly constitute a baseline for any future research on the Zimbabwean diaspora'-Pnina Werbner, Keele University" "'[A] creative and intelligent contribution to the wider academic literature on diasporas:-Jennifer Robinson, University College London" "'[A] considerable addition to the growing literature on African migrants and refugees in Europe and elsewhere. It brings together research conducted by a range of scholars from different disciplines and of different backgrounds, including many from Zimbabwe itself..:£Ralph Grillo, University of Sussex" "Zimbabwe's crisis has produced a dramatic global scattering of people for the past decade. This volume investigates this enforced dispersal, and the processes shaping the emergence of a new 'diaspora' of Zimbabweans abroad, focusing on the most important concentrations in South Africa and in Britain. The first book on the diasporic connections created through Zimbabwe's multifaceted crisis, it offers an innovative combination of research on the political, economic, cultural and legal dimensions of movement across borders and survival thereafter. It highlights the ways in which new movements are connected to older flows, and how displacements across physical borders are intimately linked to the reworking of conceptual borders in both sending and receiving states. The book is essential reading for researchers and students in migration, diaspora and postcolonial literary studies." "Joann Mcgregor is Lecturer at University College London. She has published on Zimbabwean politics, society and history, and on forced migration. She is co-author of Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the Dark Forests of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe (2000), author of Crossing the Zambezi: The Politics of Landscape on a Central African Frontier (2010) and co-editor of the Journal of Southern African Studies." "Ranka Primorac is Teaching Fellow at University of Southampton. She has published on Zimbabwean literature and culture, and is author of The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe, editor of African City Textualities (2010) and co-editor of Zimbabwe in Crisis: The International Response and the Space of Silence (2007)."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Studies in forced migration ; v. 31

Uniform Title

Studies in forced migration ; v. 31.

Subject

• Forced migration > Zimbabwe
• Zimbabweans > South Africa > Social conditions
• Zimbabweans > Great Britain > Social conditions
• Zimbabweans > Foreign countries > Politics and government
• Forced migration
• Zimbabwe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The making of Zimbabwe's new Diaspora / JoAnn McGregor -- Makwerekwere: migration, citizenship and identity among Zimbabweans in South Africa / James Muzondidya --Zimbabwean farmworkers in Limpopo Province, South Africa / Blair Rutherford -- The politics of legal status for Zimbabweans in South Africa / Norma Kriger -- Zimbabwean transnational Diaspora politics in Britain / Dominic Pasura -- Diaspora and dignity: navigating and contesting civic exclusion in Britain / JoAnn McGregor -- Burial at home? Dealing with death in the Diaspora and Harare / Beacon Mbiba -- Negotiating transnational families: HIV positive Zimbabwean women's accounts of obligation and support / Martha Chinouya -- Debating 'Zimbabweanness' in Diasporic internet forums: technologies of freedom? / Winston Mano and Wendy Willems -- Rhodesians never die? The Zimbabwe crisis and the revival of Rhodesian discourse / Ranka Primorac -- Exile and the internet: Ndebele and mixed- race online diaspora 'homes' / Clayton Peel -- One dandelion seed-head / Brian Chikwava, introduced by Ranka Primorac -- 'Making new connections': interview with Brian Chikwava / Ranka Primorac.

Call Number

Sc E 22-757

ISBN

• 9781845456580
• 1845456580

LCCN

2010018161

OCLC

437298827

Title

Zimbabwe's new diaspora : displacement and the cultural politics of survival / edited by JoAnn McGregor and Ranka Primorac.

Publisher

New York : Berghahn Books, [2010]

Copyright Date

©2010

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in forced migration ; v. 31

Studies in forced migration ; v. 31.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: UNIV. OF SOUTHAMPTON. BASED ON PAPERS FROM CONFERENCE.

Added Author

McGregor, JoAnn, editor.

Primorac, Ranka, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-757