"The papers in this volume cast new light on Zimbabwe's difficult
recent history through the experiences of the large numbers of
Zimbabweans now settled across the world, mostly in South Africa
and Britian. Especially in South Africa, building popular support
for the Zimbabwean diaspora is an urgent political challenge, and
one for which this book provides plenty of resources. At the same
time it offers a creative and intelligent contribution to the wider
academic literature on diasporas." . Prof. Jennifer Robinson, UCL
"The volume is to be welcomed as 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...Comparing the Zimbabwean
'diaspora' in depth in two important and different contexts (the UK
and South Africa) gives it significant added value." . Prof. Ralph
Grillo, University of Sussex
"This rich collection of case studies reveals the complexities
of Zimbabweaness and diasporic identities and demonstrates how
these particular diasporas are inserted into layers of
interpretative schemes both in South Africa and UK. This focus on
historical intertwining and the layers of interpretation that it
creates, is an important contribution to Diaspora studies and
studies on transnationalism that tend merely to explore
contemporary issues of exclusion/marginalization or 'political
opportunity structures' in the host society." . Prof. Simon Turner,
Danish Institute for International Studies
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.
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)
and co-edits 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 and co-editor of Zimbabwe in Crisis: The International
Response and the Space of Silence (2007)."
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