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Zimbabwe's exodus : crisis, migration, survival / edited by Jonathan Crush and Daniel Tevera.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African diaspora--Economic aspects.
- African diaspora.
- Emigrant remittances--Zimbabwe.
- Emigrant remittances.
- Zimbabwe--Emigration and immigration.
- Zimbabwe.
- Zimbabwe--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (434 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town : Southern African Migration Programme ; Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- The ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe has led to an unprecedented exodus of over a million desperate people from all strata of Zimbabwean society. The Zimbabwean diaspora is now truly global in extent. Yet rather than turning their backs on Zimbabwe, most maintain very close links with the country, returning often and remitting billions of dollars each year. 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. T
- Contents:
- Exiting Zimbabwe / Jonathan Crush and Daniel Tevera
- A history of Zimbabwean migration to 1990 / Alois S. Mlambo
- Internal migration in Zimbabwe : the impact of livelihood destruction in rural and urban areas / Deborah Potts
- Discontent and departure : attitudes of skilled Zimbabweans towards emigration / Daniel Tevera and Jonathan Crush
- Nursing the health system : the migration of health professionals from Zimbabwe / Abel Chikanda
- Transnational lives : the experience of Zimbabweans in Britain / Alice Blach
- Between obligation, profit and shame : Zimbabwean migrants and the UK Care Industry / JoAnn McGregor
- Regendering the Zimbabwean diaspora in Britain / Dominic Pasura
- Zimbabwe in Johannesburg / Daniel Makina
- Zimbabweans on the farms of northern South Africa / Blair Rutherford
- The voices of migrant Zimbabwean women in South Africa / Kate Lefko-Everett
- Smuggling on the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border / Nedson Pophiwa
- Migrant remittances and household survival in Zimbabwe / Daniel Tevera, Jonathan Crush and Abel Chikanda
- Remittances, informalisation and dispossession in urban Zimbabwe / Sarah Bracking and Lloyd Sachikonye
- Transnationalism and undocumented migration between rural Zibabwe and South Africa / France Maphosa
- Metaphors of Migration : South African responses to Zimbabwean migration / Tara Polzer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612806421
- 9781282806429
- 1282806424
- 9781920118976
- 1920118977
- 9781552504994
- 1552504999
- OCLC:
- 830166450
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