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Zimbabwean Farm Workers in Northern South Africa

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  • Blair Rutherford
  • Lincoln Addison

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This article analyses the precarious livelihoods of Zimbabweans working on commercial farms in northern South Africa. Based on research carried out in 2004 and 2005, we examine how these Zimbabweans seek pathways of survival and, for a few, potential accumulation across space, sectors, and international boundaries. The article analyses how these Zimbabwean farm workers are situated in an ambivalent legal terrain, the neo-liberal restructuring of agriculture and the articulation of paternalistic rule into a far more authoritarian logic of rule on the farms, all of which have made the border-zone a 'state of exception' for them which conditions their livelihoods. The article highlights that although these processes intensify labour exploitation, they also recalibrate the survival strategies of Zimbabweans and generate varied forms of resistance.

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  • Blair Rutherford & Lincoln Addison, 2007. "Zimbabwean Farm Workers in Northern South Africa," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(114), pages 619-635, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:34:y:2007:i:114:p:619-635
    DOI: 10.1080/03056240701819491
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    1. Oya, Carlos., 2010. "Rural inequality, wage employment and labour market formation in Africa : historical and micro-level evidence," ILO Working Papers 994582213402676, International Labour Organization.
    2. Vusilizwe Thebe, 2017. "“Two Steps Forward, One Step Back”: Zimbabwean Migration and South Africa’s Regularising Programme (the ZDP)," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 18(2), pages 613-622, May.
    3. Rian Villiers & Zenzele Weda, 2018. "Zimbabwean Teachers in South Africa: their Needs and Advice to Prospective Migrant Teachers," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 299-314, May.
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