Elusive Histories - 9780821425749

Elusive HistoriesMozambican Migrant Laborers in Rhodesia, Ca. 19001980\nAuthor(s): Allen F. Isaacman, Joy M. Chadya, Barbara S. Isaacman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821425749, 978-0821425749\nSynopsis\nAt the heart of Elusive Histories is a long-neglected story of the clandestine journeys of Mozambican migrant laborers and their families to Rhodesia. Drawing from oral histories, court records, archives, newspapers, and popular magazines, the authors chronicle Mozambican migration, work experiences, and settlement in Rhodesia. Thousands of men, women, and children traveled long distances, often on foot, to reach Rhodesia. Starting with a trickle of workers seeking to avoid chibharo, a Mozambican agricultural forced-labor system, the number of migrants peaked in the 1950s.\n In 1958, the Rhodesian government passed legislation to bar new Mozambican migrants from entering large cities, redirecting them .