12. ‘Making New Connections’: Interview with Brian Chikwava

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors’ Preface and Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: The Making of Zimbabwe’s New Diaspora 1
5. Zimbabwean Diasporic Communities in South Africa
6. 1. Makwerekwere: Migration, Citizenship and Identity among Zimbabweans in South Africa 37
7. 2. Zimbabwean Farmworkers in Limpopo Province, South Africa Blair Rutherford 59
8. 3. The Politics of Legal Status for Zimbabweans in South Africa 77
9. The Cultural Politics of Survival in Britain
10. 4. Zimbabwean Transnational Diaspora Politics in Britain 103
11. 5. Diaspora and Dignity: Navigating and Contesting Civic Exclusion in Britain 122
12. 6. Burial at Home? Dealing with Death in the Diaspora and Harare 144
13. 7. Negotiating Transnational Families: HIV Positive Zimbabwean Women’s Accounts of Obligation and Support 164
14. Diasporic Identities and Transnational Media
15. 8. Debating ‘Zimbabweanness’ in Diasporic Internet Forums: Technologies of Freedom? 183
16. 9. Rhodesians Never Die? The Zimbabwe Crisis and the Revival of Rhodesian Discourse 202
17. 10. Exile and the Internet: Ndebele and Mixed-race Online Diaspora ‘Homes’ 229
18. 11. One Dandelion Seed-head 246
19. 12. ‘Making New Connections’: Interview with Brian Chikwava 255
20. Notes on Contributors 261
21. Index 265