Description
Compiling various perspectives from borderlands across the SADC region, Migration, Borders, and Borderlands: Making National Identity in Southern African Communities, edited by Munyaradzi Mushonga, John Aerni-Flessner, Chitja Twala, and Grey Magaiza, provides a synthesis of the experiences of borderland residents in this economically and socially integrated region. This book reframes debates around nationalism and belonging in southern Africa as it uses the idea of a "borderscape" to argue that nations are made at the border and in the contestations that take place in the borderlands. Understanding borders and bordering in the SADC region is crucial to understanding how policies made in oft-distant national capitals have played out among borderlands residents over time. The contributors present why national citizens in SADC so often end up in countries distant from where they were born and reside, and why leaders need to be cognizant of this. Exploring gender, history, policy, and the ways that people have moved across borders despite a myriad of restrictions stretching from the early twentieth century to the present, this collection centers the voices and experiences of the most marginal to make the plea for a more humane border regime in Southern Africa and globally.
Author: Munyaradzi Mushonga
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 10/30/2023
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9781666942804
ISBN10: 1666942804
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | World | African
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | African Studies