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Crisis, Identity and Migration in Post-Colonial Southern AfricaUneven Development and Conflict in Southern Africa: Interrogating the Patterns and Accumulation Processes

Crisis, Identity and Migration in Post-Colonial Southern Africa: Uneven Development and Conflict... [Over the past two decades, Southern Africa has witnessed economic growth powered by relative political stability. Development has occurred at varying pace in different parts of the region on the foundation of unequal share of resources, opportunities and benefits. In most cases, politically and economically privileged elites are reaping the economic benefits whilst exploiting and excluding millions of the disenfranchised poor. This paper interrogates development patterns, mechanisms of resource allocation and the conflicts associated with uneven geographies of income and poverty. This paper draws exclusively from secondary data on urban, economic and social development between 2000 and 2015 in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Observations show that more and more poor Africans are forced to migrate to better performing economies as a sheer survival strategy. The paper concludes by discussing why the competition for opportunities in receiving countries has witnessed negative responses characterised by xenophobic attacks on foreigners in some instances. In doing so, it highlights the difficulties that governments in southern African face in reconciling the redistributive priorities of the urban poor with strategies to maintain long-term economic and political stability.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Crisis, Identity and Migration in Post-Colonial Southern AfricaUneven Development and Conflict in Southern Africa: Interrogating the Patterns and Accumulation Processes

Part of the Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development Book Series
Editors: Magidimisha, Hangwelani Hope; Khalema, Nene Ernest; Chipungu, Lovemore; Chirimambowa, Tamuka C.; Chimedza, Tinashe Lukas
Nengomasha, Calvin; Magidimisha, Hangwelani Hope
Crisis, Identity and Migration in Post-Colonial Southern Africa — Jul 26, 2017
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-59234-3
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39 –52
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-59235-0_3
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Abstract

[Over the past two decades, Southern Africa has witnessed economic growth powered by relative political stability. Development has occurred at varying pace in different parts of the region on the foundation of unequal share of resources, opportunities and benefits. In most cases, politically and economically privileged elites are reaping the economic benefits whilst exploiting and excluding millions of the disenfranchised poor. This paper interrogates development patterns, mechanisms of resource allocation and the conflicts associated with uneven geographies of income and poverty. This paper draws exclusively from secondary data on urban, economic and social development between 2000 and 2015 in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Observations show that more and more poor Africans are forced to migrate to better performing economies as a sheer survival strategy. The paper concludes by discussing why the competition for opportunities in receiving countries has witnessed negative responses characterised by xenophobic attacks on foreigners in some instances. In doing so, it highlights the difficulties that governments in southern African face in reconciling the redistributive priorities of the urban poor with strategies to maintain long-term economic and political stability.]

Published: Jul 26, 2017

Keywords: Uneven development; Economic growth; Poverty; Migration; Conflict; Southern Africa

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