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Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and DevelopmentShopping-Oriented Mobility Across the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border: Modalities and Encounters

Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and Development: Shopping-Oriented Mobility Across the... [In recent years, South African border towns such as Musina have grown exponentially in retail services and become subregional “hubs” for cross-border shopping. The existing literature on cross-border shopping has paid little attention to understanding the nature and extent of this phenomenon in less popular shopping destinations. This chapter discusses the spatial practices of shoppers, especially how different categories of shoppers experienced mobility across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border depending on whether they travelled by car, bus or other forms of public transport. It examines the modalities and practices associated with cross-border shopping by Zimbabweans in South Africa’s border town of Musina. The focus is on long-distance shoppers whose shopping trips require more organising, planning and financial resources while their journeys take anything from 3 to 8 h to get to the border post. These shoppers are worth studying because most of them come to Musina from larger towns and cities (than Musina) such as Bulawayo, Mutare and Harare the capital city. This brings a fascinating twist to common norms in the study of cross-border shopping, where scholars have paid attention to shopping by communities which live astride borders. Through their mobility patterns, Zimbabwean cross-border shoppers stimulate mobility of other actors whose aims are to control or benefit from their movements.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and DevelopmentShopping-Oriented Mobility Across the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border: Modalities and Encounters

Part of the Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development Book Series
Editors: Nshimbi, Christopher Changwe; Moyo, Inocent
Pophiwa, Nedson
Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and Development — Jun 23, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-42889-1
Pages
65 –83
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-42890-7_6
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Abstract

[In recent years, South African border towns such as Musina have grown exponentially in retail services and become subregional “hubs” for cross-border shopping. The existing literature on cross-border shopping has paid little attention to understanding the nature and extent of this phenomenon in less popular shopping destinations. This chapter discusses the spatial practices of shoppers, especially how different categories of shoppers experienced mobility across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border depending on whether they travelled by car, bus or other forms of public transport. It examines the modalities and practices associated with cross-border shopping by Zimbabweans in South Africa’s border town of Musina. The focus is on long-distance shoppers whose shopping trips require more organising, planning and financial resources while their journeys take anything from 3 to 8 h to get to the border post. These shoppers are worth studying because most of them come to Musina from larger towns and cities (than Musina) such as Bulawayo, Mutare and Harare the capital city. This brings a fascinating twist to common norms in the study of cross-border shopping, where scholars have paid attention to shopping by communities which live astride borders. Through their mobility patterns, Zimbabwean cross-border shoppers stimulate mobility of other actors whose aims are to control or benefit from their movements.]

Published: Jun 23, 2020

Keywords: Cross-border shoppers; Cross-border mobility; Zimbabwe-South Africa border; Musina

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