Border jumping and migration control in southern Africa /

"With the end of apartheid rule and the on-going economic crisis in Zimbabwe, Francis Musoni observes that border crossing has become a way of life for many of those who live on both sides of the Limpopo River. This border has become one of the busiest inland ports in entry in the world and as...

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Main Author: Musoni, Francis (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • A site of contestations: the Zimbabwe-South Africa border and illegal[ized] movements across it
  • Colonial statecraft and the rise of border jumping
  • Promoting illegality: South Africa's ban on "tropical natives"
  • Border jumping and the politics of labor
  • Apartheid, African liberation struggles and the securitization of cross-Limpopo mobility
  • Crossing the boundary fence: the Zimbabwe crisis and the surge in border jumping
  • The past in the present: border jumping as a legacy of the European partition of Africa.