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

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Migration, Borders, and Borderlands

Making National Identity in Southern African Communities

By: Chitja Twala (Editor), Munyaradzi Mushonga (Editor), John Aerni-Flessner (Editor), Grey Magaiza (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 October 2023

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338 Pages

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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.

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What a distinctive work characterized by historical nuances of various aspects of borders and migrations. Most of the existing books on borders, migrations and attendant disputes and conflicts are largely pivoted on the present, and this volume takes us back to detailed historical case studies that are enlightening as they are groundbreaking. This is a most welcomed addition to the studies of borders in Southern African historiography and will definitely appeal to a wide audience of readers across disciplines. -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, University of Bayreuth The work presents a compelling collection of nuanced analyses of the complex and enduring legacies of borders in southern Africa. In their robust critical engagement with several borderlands, the authors provide novel insights into the agentic ways in which borders are traversed, manipulated, endured, and undermined by their constituent communities. It sets a new benchmark for historical and contemporary inquiry on borders and identity formation in the region and is likely to become a standard reference for future research. -- Jared McDonald, University of the Free State

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