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In this book the author addresses the tenacity of the nation-state and how it continues to regulate transnational migration. She critiques assumptions on motivations embedded in the North-South dichotomy and shows how motivations transcend the regional divide with specific reference to non-missionary migrants in Zimbabwe in relation to South-North migrants. She also addresses Zimbabwe’s non-conformity to the conventional profile of a destination country. The circumstances of migrants from the global North living in Zimbabwe also challenge the migration lexicon in which countries and mobile populations are named and categorized in an either/or schematic. The author addresses spatial demarcation of space premised on the colonial dividend and neoliberalism’s influence on the organization and occupation of urban space. She specifically juxtaposes non-missionary migrants’ lives in the gated communities of Harare with those of missionaries in the low-income neighborhoods and at a rural hospital. She analyzes transnational outcomes in relation to the liminality that multi-sited belonging and cosmopolitanism engender.

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Deviant Destinations is a valuable addition to debates on migration in Zimbabwe, which is synonymous with emigration.--Leben Nelson Moro, University of Juba Rose Jaji's Deviant Destinations has moved the needle in migration studies. This book is fresh, nuanced, informed, and full of the economic and political contradictions that represent the complexities of migration to and from Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. Jaji insists that Zimbabwe cannot be correctly viewed by simple polarities amidst its heroic and tragic demographic catastrophe.--Richard Lobban, Naval War College Refusing to deal with the obvious, Deviant Destinations is a brave and challenging piece forcing us to rethink global migration in contemporary times.--Vupenyu Dzingirai, University of Zimbabwe This book on North-South migration to Zimbabwe is an original work on a most important topic. It turns the tables and breaks from the often referred to Global South/Global North divide. It is set in a solid transnational perspective whilst recognizing the role of the nation state in determining migration, and encourages critical and reflective thinking about migration at a time when it seems to be one of the most controversial issues. Highly recommended!--Tanja Kleibl, University of Applied Sciences Wurzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS) This study of Zimbabwe is a timely reminder that there is a lot more to migration than is provided for in the problematic assumptions and binary oppositions about who gets to move where, how, and on whose terms in an interconnected world that is more appropriately characterized by flexible mobility.--Francis B. Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town; author of Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa

This study of Zimbabwe is a timely reminder that there is a lot more to migration than is provided for in the problematic assumptions and binary oppositions about who gets to move where, how, and on whose terms in an interconnected world that is more appropriately characterized by flexible mobility.--Francis B. Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town; author of Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa

"Deviant Destinations is a valuable addition to debates on migration in Zimbabwe, which is synonymous with emigration. Refusing to deal with the obvious, Deviant Destinations is a brave and challenging piece forcing us to rethink global migration in contemporary times. Rose Jaji's Deviant Destinations has moved the needle in migration studies. This book is fresh, nuanced, informed, and full of the economic and political contradictions that represent the complexities of migration to and from Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. Jaji insists that Zimbabwe cannot be correctly viewed by simple polarities amidst its heroic and tragic demographic catastrophe. This book on North-South migration to Zimbabwe is an original work on a most important topic. It turns the tables and breaks from the often referred to Global South/Global North divide. It is set in a solid transnational perspective whilst recognizing the role of the nation state in determining migration, and encourages critical and reflective thinking about migration at a time when it seems to be one of the most controversial issues. Highly recommended! This study of Zimbabwe is a timely reminder that there is a lot more to migration than is provided for in the problematic assumptions and binary oppositions about who gets to move where, how, and on whose terms in an interconnected world that is more appropriately characterized by flexible mobility. In her recent book ""Deviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration,"" Rose Jaji, senior lecturer in Sociology at Harare University, pays attention to an unusual type of migration journey. . . Rose Jaji`s book gives an entirely new reading of Zimbabwe, showing how studying migration from the Global North to the Global South can give new insights into the common elements of migration motivations, the place of migrants in a host society and the pitfalls of a containerized understanding of the nation-state. . . . Jaji`s deconstruction of motivations, consequences and territorialisation of common migration containers is vital reading for anyone seeking nuanced debates that go beyond the norm."

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Rose Jaji is senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe.

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