Moving Bodies: Omalayitsha, Transnational Practices, and the Embodying of Movement between South Western Zimbabwe and South Africa

Project

Principal investigator Xolani Tshabalala (REMESO Project Leader), Stefan Jonsson (Scientifically Responsible), Carl-Ulrik Schierup (Participants from REMESO)
Description
This project examines circular movement in Southern Africa in the context of entrepreneurship, multiple logics of legitimacy, and everyday interaction between travelers and state functionaries. The project builds on the ideas of the human economy and embodiment as a way to investigate how movement can be understood by those that are involved in its everyday practice. The projects specifically focuses on the practice of private transporting of goods, people and ideas between South-Western Zimbabwe and South Africa. A focus on practices of movement has some implications for the understanding of migration in Southern Africa, of economic livelihoods and of the continued development of the African state in general.
Year 2012

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Disciplines
Geographies
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