Circular Migration in Zimbabwe and Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa
本书综述并重新解读了非洲城乡迁移的过往研究，结合对津巴布韦1980-2010年的严谨学术调查，揭示了循环迁移在南部非洲依然活跃，并批判了关于迁移的过度概括和错误二分法。
Deborah Potts has set herself several ambitious tasks, and has succeeded to a remarkable degree. The book under review combines a masterly overview and re-interpretation of past writing on rural–urban migration in Africa with a rigorous scholarly research study of Zimbabwe, 1980–2010. John Caldwell's classic pioneering study exclusively on Ghana was naughtily titled African Rural–Urban Migration: in contrast this properly titled book ranges from the macro-level of sub-Saharan Africa to the micro-level of individual neighbourhoods of Harare. Similarly in terms of topic, much of this book is presenting a broad overview of both internal migration and contemporary urbanization, especially issues of urban employment (60 index entries), but is providing this as a framework for sharply focused investigation of circularity and return migration. The author shows very clearly that circular migration, often thought to be in terminal decline in Southern Africa, is very much alive – if not entirely well. The book offers much healthy scepticism about all-too-common over-generalizations and false dichotomies regarding migration in Africa. Widespread ambivalence as to whether to move either to or from the city, and very mixed motives for moving are both acknowledged. A recurring theme is ‘the range of intersecting and often conflicting factors at play’ (p. 256) in the migration dynamics of Africa.