Deviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration

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In this book the author addresses the tenacity of the nation-state and how it continues to regulate transnational migration. She critiques assumptions on motivations embedded in the North-South dichotomy and shows how motivations transcend the regional divide with specific reference to non-missionary migrants in Zimbabwe in relation to South-North migrants. She also addresses Zimbabwes non-conformity to the conventional profile of a destination country. The circumstances of migrants from the global North living in Zimbabwe also challenge the migration lexicon in which countries and mobile populations are named and categorized in an either/or schematic. The author addresses spatial demarcation of space premised on the colonial dividend and neoliberalisms influence on the organization and occupation of urban space. She specifically juxtaposes non-missionary migrants lives in the gated communities of Harare with those of missionaries in the low-income neighborhoods and at a rural hospital. She analyzes transnational outcomes in relation to the liminality that multi-sited belonging and cosmopolitanism engender.

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In her recent book "Deviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration," Rose Jaji, senior lecturer in Sociology at Harare University, pays attention to an unusual type of migration journey. . . Rose Jaji`s book gives an entirely new reading of Zimbabwe, showing how studying migration from the Global North to the Global South can give new insights into the common elements of migration motivations, the place of migrants in a host society and the pitfalls of a containerized understanding of the nation-state. . . . Jaji`s deconstruction of motivations, consequences and territorialisation of common migration containers is vital reading for anyone seeking nuanced debates that go beyond the norm.

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Rose Jaji is senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe.