The closing frontier: Agrarian change, immigrants and the 'squatter menace' in Gokwe, 1980-1990s

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 534-549

  Nyambara, Pius S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Agrarian change; Frontier; Immigrants; Land; Squatters; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038507907     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0366.00017     Document Type: Article

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