Forced Migration in Southern Africa

Abstract This chapter outlines five phases of displacement in the ‘fifty years war’ of Southern Africa, from the wars of independence of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s to the mass exodus of people from Zimbabwe and mass deportations of migrants, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, and refugees to other states. It first provides an overview of pre-colonial and colonial forced migration and periodizes the five-decade war from 1960 to the …