Introduction. Displacing Zimbabwe: Crisis and Construction in Southern Africa

‘Kids sold, desperate moms need cash’: Media representations of Zimbabwean women migrants

“…As new modes of citizenship and political economies become established, individual and group agency ensure that there is never a return to the stability and settlement of the past, but to unstable existence in the present re-settlement, in which the notion of 'home' keeps shifting between Zimbabwe and South Africa, depending on socio-economic and political conditions in space and time (cf. Hammar, McGregor and Landau 2010). Individual agency, in particular, becomes critical, as it becomes the means for managing the detrimental effects of the twin opposing counterpoints described above (cf.…”

“…In this article, following Hammar, McGregor and Landau (2010), we see 'displacement' as referring to general movement of people (voluntary or by force of circumstances) from one place to another, replacement of a people by another, an act of being forced out of a place and the distance of the trajectory between two places. Thus, displacement becomes a metaphor not just to describe issues of dispossession of 'home,' families and livelihoods; it is also a metaphor to describe new beginnings and hope in the diaspora.…”

“We Are Working Hand to Mouth”: Zimbabwean Teachers’ Experiences of Vulnerability in South Africa

“…Sisulu, Moyo and Tshuma (2007) also struggle to define Zimbabweans' migration to SA by revealing that after 2005, Zimbabwean politics has affected the economics which can result in a debate on whether Zimbabweans in SA are economic migrants or political refugees. Similarly, scholars at a conference in SA on the Zimbabwean diaspora deliberated these categories in addition to arguing from various perspectives for the use of selected terminology, such as displacement and dislodgement (Hammar, McGregor and Landau, 2010). While Betts (2010) claimed that his work doesn't constitute indepth research, he did provide some interesting recommendations to the Commonwealth Advisory Council on Mobility and Migration of teachers.…”

“…Some descriptions of the extent of immigration to SA have led to perceptions of a tidal wave of Zimbabweans engulfing SA (Brown, 2008;Hammar, McGregor and Landau, 2010). Kriger (2010: 81) notes that "there are more Zimbabweans in SA than there were Mozambican refugees during its civil war in the 1980's and 1990's".…”

Shifting Formalization Policies and Recentralizing Power: The Case of Zimbabwe's Artisanal Gold Mining Sector

“…Despite growing scholarship on economic crisis and livelihoods struggles (Jones 2010) and politicized land reforms and state-induced displacement in Zimbabwe (Hammar, McGregor, and Landau 2010;Rutherford 2012), limited attention has been given to the roles of national and local government institutions responsible for managing the ASM sector. This article addresses this research gap by examining shifts from a period in which national government agencies officially supported the formalization of artisanal gold mining in the 1990s to a period of nationwide crackdowns against artisanal miners.…”