Zimbabwe S Migrants And South Africa S Border Farms
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Zimbabwe S Migrants And South Africa S Border Farms
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Author : Maxim Bolt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-25
Zimbabwe S Migrants And South Africa S Border Farms written by Maxim Bolt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-25 with Business & Economics categories.
This book addresses the complex labour and life conditions faced by workers in the agricultural borderlands of northern South Africa.
Rooting Production
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Author : Maxim Bolt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Rooting Production written by Maxim Bolt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
This thesis is about a workforce in the midst of regional economic fragmentation. It is an ethnographic study of a commercial farm on South Africa's border with Zimbabwe, where farmer-landowners are white Afrikaners, and workers black and overwhelmingly Zimbabwean. Fleeing the hyperinflation and violent state oppression of the 'Zimbabwean crisis', farm workers encounter South Africa's neoliberal restructuring, contraction of labour-intensive industry, and land reform. Economic informalisation in both countries - a shift to short-term strategies of 'making do' - seems to hail the disappearance of southern Africa's longer-term patterns of racialised migrant labour systems. This thesis, however, argues for a labour relations or 'productivist' perspective on current trends. Agricultural workforces on the Zimbabwean-South African border, with their established forms of everyday organisation and on-site residence, profoundly shape the local setting. Their highly structured arrangements bear the mark of the region's labour history, yet also reflect the forms of fragmentation currently characterising southern Africa. The thesis begins by exploring white border farmers' self-understandings through their notions of success. It then offers a wider historical account of the border's settler capitalists, their struggles for control of land and labour, and the role played by their enterprises as hubs of settlement. Focusing on one border farm today, the study turns to the black workforce itself. It investigates how permanent workers consolidate their powerful positions in diverse areas of life, blurring spheres of work and non-work; how seasonal workers, many displaced from Zimbabwe, with diverse socio-economic backgrounds, engage with the hierarchies built around their permanent counterparts; and how, in the midst of all this, senior black workers struggle over status by means of contrasting models of authority, pitting established paternalism against idioms of corporate management. Together, these perspectives reveal how a workforce's internal arrangements both reflect and refract the wider dynamics of the border and of Zimbabwean displacement. The thesis finally develops this central theme by addressing the position of farm work in a wider economy of trade and services on the farms and across the border. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on one border farm, and in the border area more generally (November 2006-April 2008), and supported by archival research, this thesis contributes to the anthropology of work. It shows how workplace dynamics act as a prism, refracting the meanings of work, movement and upheaval in an era of informalisation, and embed displaced migrant workers in dense webs of dependence and obligation.
Unprotected Migrants
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Author : Norma Kriger
language : en
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Release Date : 2006
Unprotected Migrants written by Norma Kriger and has been published by Human Rights Watch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Alien labor, Zimbabwean categories.
Recommendations. To the government of South Africa. -- Background. Migration to South Africa - Foreign migrants on farms in South Africa - Zimbabwean farm workers in Limpopo Province -- The International Organization for Migration and Zimbabwean migrants. -- The legal framework: Migrants' status and employment conditions. -- The Immigration Act : Violations and gaps resulting in human rights abuses. Unlawful procedures and acts in the arrest, detention, and deportation of undocumented foreigners: Officers' failure to verify the status and identity of suspected "illegal foreigners"--Assault, bribery, and theft by police during arrest of suspected illegal migrants - Detention exceeding 30 days without proper procedures - Detention not in compliance with prescribed standards. --Deportation without an opportunity to collect remuneration, savings, and personal belongings -- Migrants' vulnerability to arrest and deportation arising from government deficiencies in documenting corporate workers -- Migrants' vulnerability to financial abuses by corporate permit holders. -- Employment laws : Violations and gaps resulting in human rights violations. -- Employers' failure to pay minimum wages, their unlawful use of piece rate, and their disregard of overtime rules -- Employers' failure to comply with provisions governing deductions from wages -- Discrimination and violence against Zimbabwean workers by South Africans in the private sector -- Housing and living conditions -- Workers' compensation -- Employer deductions for emergency travel documents (ETDs) -- Conclusion. -- Acknowledgements.
Zimbabwe S Exodus
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Author : Jonathan Crush
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2010
Zimbabwe S Exodus written by Jonathan Crush and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with African diaspora categories.
Zimbabwe's Exodus: Crisis, Migration, Survival is written by leading migration scholars, many from the Zimbabwean diaspora. The book explores the relationship between Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis and migration as a survival strategy.
Hyenas Of The Limpopo
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Author : Xolani Tshabalala
language : en
Publisher: Linköping University Electronic Press
Release Date : 2017-11-03
Hyenas Of The Limpopo written by Xolani Tshabalala and has been published by Linköping University Electronic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-03 with Africa, Southern categories.
An increasing number of people today cross the Beitbridge border of South Africa and Zimbabwe. This comes with a corresponding growth of creative strategies that seek to aid the crossing of those people and goods that may lack the necessary documentation. Such ‘informal’ border crossings have come to define one of the important economic regions in Southern Africa, the post-1994 Limpopo Valley. This thesis approaches routine acts of facilitating undocumented border crossings as an everyday social politics with deep historical roots. By use of archival and ethnographic methods, the thesis examines the social history and embodied practices of a variety of actors who engage in undocumented border crossings. A particular focus is placed on the role of private transporters (omalayitsha), who represent an important link between an exclusionary and yet fragmentary migration regime and undocumented travellers. In three theoretical and four empirical chapters, and inspired by border studies as well as the critical realist approach in migration studies, the thesis connects border practice to irregular movement and cheap labour within a regional context defined, in part, by dispossession. Through thick interpretations of the lived experience of border practice, the study also connects such political economic processes (e.g. migrant irregularity, labour precarity and economic informality) to questions of social identity and migrant subjectivities. By situating the figure of the hyena at the centre of Southern African border struggles, the thesis invents an analytical concept that serves both an empirical and a theoretical task. Empirically, it enables a synthetic understanding of how everyday contestations around the possibility to work across the border for low-skill migrants have been interacting, through time, with broader processes of capital accumulation to partly shape the region’s migrant labour system. Theoretically, it shows how facilitation of undocumented border crossings calls for new sociological models that can account for processes that escape binary classification (as formal or informal, inclusive or exclusive, legal or illegal, ordered or disordered), thus contributing to a better understanding of the role of migration in the contemporary world. Allt fler människor korsar idag gränsen vid Beitbridge mellan Sydafrika och Zimbabwe. Samtidigt sker en motsvarande ökning av kreativa strategier som gör att även personer och varor som saknar rätt handlingar kan ta sig över gränsen. Dessa ‘informella’ gränsövergångar har kommit att definiera vad som efter 1994 blivit en av de viktigaste ekonomiska regionerna i södra Afrika, Limpopodalen. I denna avhandling betraktas rutinerna vid sådana oregistrerade gränsövergångar som en vardagens politik med djupa historiska rötter. Genom arkivstudier och etnografiska observationer undersöker avhandlingen en samhällshistoria och en mänsklig aktivitet där en rad aktörer är inblandade i en pågående, papperslös migration. En viktig roll i sammanhanget har omalayitsha, dvs. privata transportörer, som ofta är en viktig länk mellan de papperslösa resenärerna och den migrationsregim som å ena sidan stänger dem ute och å andra sidan är så fragmenterad att de tillåts passera igenom. I tre teoretiska och fyra empiriska kapitel, samt med ett angreppssätt hämtat från gränsstudier (border studies) och den kritiskt realistiska skolan inom migrationsstudier, syftar avhandlingen till att förstå gränsövergångens praktik i förhållande till den irreguljära mobilitet och det överskott på billig arbetskraft som sätter sin prägel på en region där många är fattiga och fördrivna. I avhandlingens djuptolkningar av migranternas levda erfarenhet vid gränsen förbinds i sin tur de politiskt-ekonomiska processerna (irreguljär migration, prekära arbetsvillkor och ekonomisk informalitet) med frågor om samhällelig identitet och migrantens subjektivitet. Avhandlingen ser hyenafiguren som central för förståelsen av de ’gränskamper’ (border struggles) som utkämpas i södra Afrika; med hyenan introduceras också ett analytiskt begrepp. Empiriskt sett möjliggör begreppet en syntetisk förståelse av hur vardagliga tvister och problem som präglar arbetsmigrantens försök att jobba på andra sidan gränsen över tid samverkar med större processer av kapitalackumulation, som delvis formar regionens migrantarbetarsystem. I teoretiskt avseende visar begreppet hur förhandlingarna som sker vid gränskontrollen klargör behovet av nya sociologiska modeller som kan redogöra för samhällsprocesser som undflyr varje binär klassificering (som formell eller informell, inkluderande eller exkluderande, legal eller illegal, ordnad eller oordnad), och på så vis bidrar det till en bättre förståelse av migrationens betydelse i dagens värld.
Border Jumping And Migration Control In Southern Africa
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Author : Francis Musoni
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-07
Border Jumping And Migration Control In Southern Africa written by Francis Musoni and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with History categories.
With the end of apartheid rule in South Africa and the ongoing economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the border between these Southern African countries has become one of the busiest inland ports of entry in the world. As border crossers wait for clearance, crime, violence, and illegal entries have become rampant. Francis Musoni observes that border jumping has become a way of life for many of those who live on both sides of the Limpopo River and he explores the reasons for this, including searches for better paying jobs and access to food and clothing at affordable prices. Musoni sets these actions into a framework of illegality. He considers how countries have failed to secure their borders, why passports are denied to travelers, and how border jumping has become a phenomenon with a long history, especially in Africa. Musoni emphasizes cross-border travelers' active participation in the making of this history and how clandestine mobility has presented opportunity and creative possibilities for those who are willing to take the risk.
Cross Border Migration Zimbabwe South Africa Exodus
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Author : Elvis A Masawi
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-01-14
Cross Border Migration Zimbabwe South Africa Exodus written by Elvis A Masawi and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-14 with History categories.
The tribulations and terrors of the Zimbabwean diaspora seeking economic sanctuary in South Africa.
Zimbabwe S New Diaspora
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Author : JoAnn McGregor
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010-06-01
Zimbabwe S New Diaspora written by JoAnn McGregor and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with Social Science categories.
Zimbabwe’s 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 Zimbabwe’s 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.
Borderline Farming
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Borderline Farming written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Migrant agricultural laborers categories.
To Be A Man Is Not A One Day Job
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Author : Daniel Jordan Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-11-24
To Be A Man Is Not A One Day Job written by Daniel Jordan Smith and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-24 with History categories.
From boys to men: learning to love women and money -- Expensive intimacies: courtship, marriage, and fatherhood -- "Money problem": work, class, consumption, and men's social status -- "Ahhheee club": money, intimacy, and male peer groups -- Masculinity gone awry: intimate partner violence, crime, and insecurity -- Becoming an elder, burying one's father.