Migration, Borders, and Borderlands: Making National Identity in Southern African Communities

ISBN 10: 1666942804 / ISBN 13: 9781666942804

Published by Lexington Books, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Migration, Borders, and Borderlands: Making National Identity in Southern African Communities
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666942804
• ISBN 13: 9781666942804
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Munyaradzi Mushonga is the program director for the Africa Studies Program in the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State.
John Aerni-Flessner is associate professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, and research fellow in the Department of History at the University of the Free State.
Chitja Twala is professor of history at the University of Limpopo, and research fellow in the Department of History at the University of the Free State.
Grey Magaiza is deputy director for the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State, Qwaqwa.