Zimbabwe's New Diaspora : : Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival / / ed. by JoAnn McGregor, Ranka Primorac.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Chikwava, Brian,; Chinouya, Martha,; Kriger, Norma,; Mano, Winston,; Mbiba, Beacon,; McGregor, JoAnn,; Muzondidya, James,; Pasura, Dominic,; Peel, Clayton,; Pimorac, Ranka,; Primorac, Ranka,; Rutherford, Blair,; Willems, Wendy,
• HerausgeberIn: McGregor, JoAnn,; Primorac, Ranka,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Forced Migration ; 31
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)

Zimbabwe’s crisis since 2000 has produced a dramatic global scattering of people. 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. Not only is this the first book on the diasporic connections created through Zimbabwe’s multifaceted crisis, but it also offers an innovative combination of research on the political, economic, cultural and legal dimensions of movement across borders and survival thereafter with a discussion of shifting identities and cultural change. 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/students in migration, diaspora and postcolonial literary studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors’ Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Making of Zimbabwe’s New Diaspora -- Zimbabwean Diasporic Communities in South Africa -- 1. Makwerekwere: Migration, Citizenship and Identity among Zimbabweans in South Africa -- 2. Zimbabwean Farmworkers in Limpopo Province, South Africa Blair Rutherford -- 3. The Politics of Legal Status for Zimbabweans in South Africa -- The Cultural Politics of Survival in Britain -- 4. Zimbabwean Transnational Diaspora Politics in Britain -- 5. Diaspora and Dignity: Navigating and Contesting Civic Exclusion in Britain -- 6. Burial at Home? Dealing with Death in the Diaspora and Harare -- 7. Negotiating Transnational Families: HIV Positive Zimbabwean Women’s Accounts of Obligation and Support -- Diasporic Identities and Transnational Media -- 8. Debating ‘Zimbabweanness’ in Diasporic Internet Forums: Technologies of Freedom? -- 9. Rhodesians Never Die? The Zimbabwe Crisis and the Revival of Rhodesian Discourse -- 10. Exile and the Internet: Ndebele and Mixed-race Online Diaspora ‘Homes’ -- 11. One Dandelion Seed-head -- 12. ‘Making New Connections’: Interview with Brian Chikwava -- Notes on Contributors -- Index