Zimbabwe's New Diaspora Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival [Hardcover]

Zimbabwes 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 Zimbabwes 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 McGregoris Lecturer at University College London. She has published on Zimbabwean politics, society and history, and on forced migration. She is co-author ofViolence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the Dark Forests of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe(2000) and co-edits theJournal of Southern African Studies.

The ambiguity in [this] text is a breath of fresh air and the harbinger of something new in a world seemingly dominated by the imperatives of nation, race, ethnicity, and heteronormativity.? ??JRAI

Anyone who has witnessed the plight and sense of desperation of Zimbabweans who have fled Robert Mugabes violent regime of terror, and its consequent economic meltdown, should read this book. Its different chapters inform, document, analyse and evoke with great sensitivity and conceptual clarity some of the legal, economic and emotional struggles and predicaments Zimbabweans in the diaspora face. The outcome is a diverse and complex picture l“*