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Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland
Journal of Southern African Studies ( IF 0.864 ) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 , DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2023.2174716
James Hlongwana, Elize S. van Eeden

The Ndau society in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique borderland has seemingly been neglected by colonial and post-independence governments. Exclusion from the mainstream economies of the region by the Zimbabwean and Mozambican governments has forced the Ndau to rely largely upon themselves to survive in the remote, poverty-stricken borderland. This survival practice means that many borderland residents embrace an economy of illegality in which trade in drugs, used clothes, game meat and fuel has become a coping mechanism against hardships in the borderland. Among other reactions, the Ndau people take advantage of the remoteness of the borderland to criss-cross the border to seek opportunities and resources to sustain themselves. Relentless cross-border transgressions have thus contributed to a virtual state of ‘borderlessness’ in the region, and this is manipulated by the Ndau to participate in a variety of informal cross-border survival pursuits. The discussion that follows provides a critical review of the lives and economic practices of the marginalised Ndau communities within an illegal borderland economy. It is the authors’ contention that the borderland illegal economy has sustained the Ndau community’s existence.



中文翻译:

津巴布韦-莫桑比克边境地区 Ndau 人民底层经济的无国界与 20 世纪崛起

津巴布韦-莫桑比克边境地区的 Ndau 社会似乎被殖民政府和独立后政府所忽视。津巴布韦和莫桑比克政府将该地区的主流经济排除在外,迫使恩道人在很大程度上依靠自己在偏远、贫困的边境地区生存。这种生存实践意味着许多边境居民接受了一种非法经济,在这种经济中,毒品、旧衣服、野味和燃料贸易已成为应对边境苦难的一种应对机制。在其他反应中,Ndau 人利用边境地区的偏远优势,纵横交错地穿越边境,寻找机会和资源来维持自己的生计。因此,无情的越境行为促成了该地区“无国界”的虚拟状态,这是 Ndau 操纵的,以参与各种非正式的跨境生存追求。接下来的讨论对非法边境经济中边缘化的 Ndau 社区的生活和经济实践进行了批判性回顾。作者的论点是,边境地区的非法经济维持了 Ndau 社区的存在。

更新日期:2023-03-13
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