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Economies of Care

Return Migration from South Africa to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Saana Hansen

280 pages, 6 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-508-5 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (June 2026)


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Crises and displacement have shaped practices and relations of care among Zimbabwean migrants and their families upon their return from South African urban areas. Through ethnographic research primarily in Bulawayo,Economies of Care addresses the intersection of kinship, state functions and migration in sustaining livelihoods amidst Zimbabwe's economic and political instability. It offers an in-depth analysis of how bureaucratic and intimate care structures intertwine, making it an essential resource for scholars of migration, anthropology and African studies.

Saana Hansen is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. She is affiliated with the Kone Foundation–funded project Postcolonial Apology and Legacies of Problematic Pasts (2021–2026) and the Academy of Finland–funded project The Politics of Repair (2025-2029).

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologySociologyRefugee and Migration Studies


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