TY - BOOK ID - 67008418 TI - Circular migration in Zimbabwe & contemporary sub-Saharan Africa PY - 2010 SN - 1847010237 9781847010230 9781846159169 9786613584373 1846159164 1280489146 PB - Suffolk Boydell & Brewer DB - UniCat KW - Migration, Internal KW - Migrant labor KW - Economic aspects KW - Harare (Zimbabwe) KW - Economic conditions KW - Rural-urban migration KW - #SBIB:314H252 KW - #SBIB:39A6 KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - Cities and towns, Movement to KW - Country-city migration KW - Migration, Rural-urban KW - Rural exodus KW - Rural-urban relations KW - Urbanization KW - Internal migration KW - Mobility KW - Population geography KW - Internal migrants KW - Labor, Migrant KW - Migrant workers KW - Migrants (Migrant labor) KW - Migratory workers KW - Transient labor KW - Employees KW - Casual labor KW - Internationale migratie KW - Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - City of Harare (Zimbabwe) KW - Горад Харарэ (Zimbabwe) KW - Horad Khararė (Zimbabwe) KW - Харарэ (Zimbabwe) KW - Khararė (Zimbabwe) KW - Хараре (Zimbabwe) KW - Χαράρε (Zimbabwe) KW - Charare (Zimbabwe) KW - Harareo (Zimbabwe) KW - IHarara (Zimbabwe) KW - הארארה (Zimbabwe) KW - Harareh (Zimbabwe) KW - Arare (Zimbabwe) KW - Hararensis Urbs (Zimbabwe) KW - ハラレ (Zimbabwe) KW - Xarare (Zimbabwe) KW - הארארע (Zimbabwe) KW - 哈拉雷 (Zimbabwe) KW - Halalei (Zimbabwe) KW - Salisbury (Zimbabwe) KW - Migration, Internal - Economic aspects - Zimbabwe KW - Migrant labor - Zimbabwe KW - Migration, Internal - Economic aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan KW - Migrant labor - Africa, Sub-Saharan KW - Harare (Zimbabwe) - Economic conditions - 20th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67008418 AB - Circular migration, whereby rural migrants do not remain permanently in town, has particular significance in the academic literature on development and urbanization in Africa, often having negative connotations in southern Africanist studies due to its links with an iniquitous migrant labour system. Literature on other African regions often views circular migration more positively. This book reviews the current evidence about circular migration and urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa. The author challenges the dominant view that rural-urban migration continues unabated and shows that circular migration has continued and has adapted, with faster out-migration in the face of declining urban economic opportunities. The empirical core of the book illustrates these trends through a detailed examination of the case of Zimbabwe based on the author's longstanding research on Harare. The political and economic changes in Zimbabwe since the 1980s transformed Harare from one of the best African cities to live in over this period to one of the worst. Harare citizens' livelihoods exemplify, in microcosm, the central theme of the book: the re-invention of circulation and rural-urban links in response to economic change. Deborah Potts is a Senior Lecturer in the Geography Department of King's College London. She works in the broad research field of urbanization and migration in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly southern Africa and has conducted research on these themes in Harare in Zimbabwe since 1985. South Africa: University of Cape Town Press (pbk). ER -