The Closing Frontier: Agrarian Change, Immigrants and the 'Squatter Menace' in Gokwe, 1980-1990s

Autor:	Pius Nyambara
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	Archeology Global and Planetary Change Economic growth media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Closing (real estate) Frontier Agrarian society Anthropology Local government Economics Land tenure Citizenship media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Agrarian Change. 1:534-549
ISSN:	1471-0366 1471-0358
DOI:	10.1111/1471-0366.00017
Popis:	‘Squatting’ in the communal areas of Zimbabwe has been largely ignored in the literature because it is assumed that it does not exist in a ‘communal’ land tenure system. This article argues that ‘squatting’ in Gokwe villages has become a common strategy by landless immigrants to access land. Gokwe has been a frontier region for many immigrants in search of land since the 1950s with intense pressure on land by the 1990s. As the frontier closed, the question of citizenship in Gokwe villages became more signi?cant than ever before. Those who are not formally registered as residents are de?ned by local government authorities and established villagers as ‘squatters’ who should be evicted. The article traces how local authorities and established villagers have responded to what they perceive as the ‘squatter menace’. It further examines the means used by ‘squatters’ to lay claims to land and to defend those claims in Gokwe villages.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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