Migration, Crisis and Temporality at the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border: Governing Immobilities

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Kudakwashe Vanyoro (University of the Witwatersrand)

Migration, Crisis and Temporality at the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border

Governing Immobilities

Kudakwashe Vanyoro (University of the Witwatersrand)

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English

Bristol University Press
01 March 2024

Migration, immigration & emigration; Social & cultural anthropology; Social welfare & social services; Aid & relief programmes

Series: Global Migration and Social Change

Only 15 kilometres away from the border of Zimbabwe, Musina is an obscure town in South Africa that the media cast into the public eye in the wake of the 2008 Zimbabwean economic crisis.

Taking as its starting point the arrival of thousands of displaced Zimbabwean migrants at Musina, this book presents valuable new perspectives on the temporality of migration and the governance of immobilities. The author explores the role of humanitarian actors in supporting migrants, and examines the outcomes of government-led activities in the longer term.

This is an insightful assessment of how state and non-state practices intertwine in the management of largely immobile people, and of the importance of time in understanding African migration and borders.

By: Kudakwashe Vanyoro (University of the Witwatersrand)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529225815
ISBN 10: 1529225817
Series: Global Migration and Social Change
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Experiences and Governance of Immobilities: an Introduction 1. The Making of South Africa’s Time-Space: A Historical Perspective on the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border 2. 'Saving’ Immobile Zimbabweans: Humanitarian Responses to the Zimbabwean ‘Crisis’ at the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border 3. The Temporal-Biopolitics of Governing Immobilities at the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border 4. ‘Laughing at ‘Them’ in Silence’: Everyday Governance and Harm on Immobile Migrant Bodies at the Border Transit Shelters 5. ‘This Place is a Bus Stop’: Temporalities of Zimbabwean Migrant Men Wwaiting at the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border Conclusion: Bringing Time to the Study of African Borders

Kudakwashe Vanyoro is a Zimbabwean Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.