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Berghahn Books Zimbabwes New Diaspora Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival 2010 Edition by Joann McGregor, Ranka Primorac
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 :- Editors' PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. The Making of Zimbabwe's New DiasporaJoAnn McGregorPART I: ZIMBABWEAN DIASPORIC COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH AFRICAChapter 2. Makwerekwere: Migration, Citizenship and Identity among Zimbabweans in South AfricaJames MuzondidyaChapter 3. Zimbabwean Farmworkers in Limpopo Province, South AfricaBlair RutherfordChapter 4.The Politics of Legal Status for Zimbabweans in South AfricaNorma KrigerPART II: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF SURVIVAL IN BRITAINChapter 5. Zimbabwean Transnational Diaspora Politics in BritainDominic PasuraChapter 6. Diaspora and Dignity: Navigating and Contesting Civic Exclusion in the UKJoAnn McGregorChapter 7. Burial at Home? Negotiating Death in the Diaspora and HarareBeacon MbibaChapter 8. Maintaining Transnational Families: HIV Positive Zimbabwean Women's Narratives of Obligation and SupportMartha ChinouyaPART III: DIASPORIC IDENTITIES AND TRANSNATIONAL MEDIAChapter 9. Debating 'Zimbabweanness' in Diasporic Internet Forums: Technologies of Freedom?Winston Mano and Wendy WillemsChapter 10. Rhodesians Never Die? The Zimbabwe Crisis and the Revival of Rhodesian DiscourseRanka PrimoracChapter 11. Exile and the Internet: Ndebele and Mixed-Race Diaspora 'Homes' OnlineClayton PeelChapter 12. One Dandelion SeedheadBrian Chikwava, introduced by Ranka Primorac