Hyenas of the Limpopo : The Social Politics of Undocumented Movement Across South Africa's Border with Zimbabwe.

Tshabalala, Xolani.

Hyenas of the Limpopo : The Social Politics of Undocumented Movement Across South Africa's Border with Zimbabwe. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (405 pages) - Link�oping Studies in Arts and Sciences Series ; v.729 . - Link�oping Studies in Arts and Sciences Series .

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Contents -- Figures -- INTRODUCTION: Braving the Limpopo -- METHODS AND METHODOLOGY: Social history and mobile phenomenology -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: Locating border practices in the political economy of migrant labour -- SURPLUS MOVEMENT AND ITS FACILITATION: Border struggles in colonial Limpopo -- A HYENA ECONOMY: The embodiment and sociality of assisted border crossings -- 'GHOST PASSPORTS': Disembodiment, illegibility and the negotiation of undocumented border crossings -- CONTESTING MIGRANT SUBJECTIVITIES: Crisis, ambivalence and political identities of transition -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

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