ISBN:
9781666942804
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 312 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Migration, borders, and borderlands
DDC:
320.120968
Keywords:
Border crossing
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Borderlands
;
Border security
;
Smuggling
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Africa, Southern Boundaries
Abstract:
"Using a historical lens to interrogate why and how people cross borders in the SADC region, this book explains how nation-states and national communities are made in the borderlands and shows how communities and individuals have fought back against regimes attempting to contain and control them through securitized borders"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: Migration, Borders, and Borderlands in Southern Africa in Historical Perspective /
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Chapter 1: "Putting Gunboats on the Lake": Frelimo's Guerrilla War and Malawi's Border Dispute with Tanzania in the 1960s /
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Chapter 2: Permit-less Crossing and Tourism: Constructing Border Regimes in the Drakensberg Mountains, 1950s-Present /
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Chapter 3: Posted Passports and Fake Stamps: Documented Mobility, Invisibility, and the Informal Enforcement of South Africa's Border with Zimbabwe /
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Chapter 4: Contested Borderscapes, Border Farms, and Guided Travels in Zimbabwe's Struggle for Self-Rule, 1960-1970s /
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Chapter 5: "The River is a Natural Resource, not a Border?" Understanding Tonga Borderland Community Responses to State Border Security Policy in Binga District of Zimbabwe, c. 1957 to 2017 /
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Chapter 6: Crossing a 'Ficticious' Border: Angolan Refugees' Mobility and Settling Dynamics in the Lower Congo (1950s-1970s) /
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Chapter 7: Angolan and Mozambican Border Towns: Interconnecting and Consolidating Southern African Mobilities /
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Chapter 8: Cross-Border Mobility of Mozambicans to South Africa and the Growth of Informal Trade in the City of Xai-Xai, 2005-2022 /
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Chapter 9: Cultural Capital, Virtual Borderlands and the Making of the Southern African Communities in Two Zambian Novels /
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Chapter 10: 'You Have to Pay with Your Body': The Precarity of Subaltern Basotho Migrant Women within the Lesotho-South Africa Border(land)s /
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Chapter 11: Woman Entrepreneurs and Border Jumpers in the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border /
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Chapter 12: Of 'Paqama Gates' and 'Paqama Scouts': The Innerworkings of Regulated Illegal and Irregular Border Crossing Between Lesotho and South Africa /
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