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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMusoni has written an exciting book that challenges our notions of what borders on the African continent mean.
* H-Africa *
Francis Musoni's book Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa is an interesting and compelling read, mapping out the history of border jumping or "illegal migration" in Southern Africa.
* African Studies Review *
Overall this book is a good, effective read and a must for scholars of migration. It will make a timely contribution across the social sciences and humanities, providing new theoretical perspectives while challenging traditional notions of legality and illegality in cross border movements in Africa.
-- Kalpana Hiralal - University of KwaZulu-Natal * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction: A Site of Contestations: The Zimbabwe-South Africa Border and Illegal[ized] Movements Across it
1. Colonial Statecraft and the Rise of Border Jumping
2. Promoting Illegality: South Africa's Ban on "Tropical Natives"
3. Border Jumping and the Politics of Labor
4. Apartheid, African Liberation Struggles and the Securitization of Cross-Limpopo Mobility
5. Crossing the Boundary Fence: The Zimbabwe Crisis and the Surge in Border Jumping
Conclusion: The Past in the Present: Border Jumping as a Legacy of the European Partition of Africa
Bibliography
Index
