Zimbabwe's Migrants and South Africa's Border Farms

The Roots of Impermanence

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, History
Cover of the book Zimbabwe's Migrants and South Africa's Border Farms by Maxim Bolt, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Maxim Bolt ISBN: 9781316366028
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: September 25, 2015
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Maxim Bolt
ISBN: 9781316366028
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: September 25, 2015
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

During the Zimbabwean crisis, millions crossed through the apartheid-era border fence, searching for ways to make ends meet. Maxim Bolt explores the lives of Zimbabwean migrant labourers, of settled black farm workers and their dependants, and of white farmers and managers, as they intersect on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa. Focusing on one farm, this book investigates the role of a hub of wage labour in a place of crisis. A close ethnographic study, it addresses the complex, shifting labour and life conditions in northern South Africa's agricultural borderlands. Underlying these challenges are the Zimbabwean political and economic crisis of the 2000s and the intensified pressures on commercial agriculture in South Africa following market liberalization and post-apartheid land reform. But, amidst uncertainty, farmers and farm workers strive for stability. The farms on South Africa's margins are centers of gravity, islands of residential labour in a sea of informal arrangements.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

During the Zimbabwean crisis, millions crossed through the apartheid-era border fence, searching for ways to make ends meet. Maxim Bolt explores the lives of Zimbabwean migrant labourers, of settled black farm workers and their dependants, and of white farmers and managers, as they intersect on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa. Focusing on one farm, this book investigates the role of a hub of wage labour in a place of crisis. A close ethnographic study, it addresses the complex, shifting labour and life conditions in northern South Africa's agricultural borderlands. Underlying these challenges are the Zimbabwean political and economic crisis of the 2000s and the intensified pressures on commercial agriculture in South Africa following market liberalization and post-apartheid land reform. But, amidst uncertainty, farmers and farm workers strive for stability. The farms on South Africa's margins are centers of gravity, islands of residential labour in a sea of informal arrangements.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book Yeats and Modern Poetry by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book The Ethics of Influence by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book Organ Shortage by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book The Economic Consequences of the War by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book Latin Alive by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to William James by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book Berkeley: Philosophical Writings by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book American Imperialism and the State, 1893–1921 by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book Forest Preservation in a Changing Climate by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book Maximum Likelihood for Social Science by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book Fragile Democracies by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book Proconsuls by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book Equivalents of the Riemann Hypothesis: Volume 2, Analytic Equivalents by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology by Maxim Bolt
Cover of the book Direct Democracy Worldwide by Maxim Bolt
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy