Saana Hansen is Postdoctoral Researcher in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. She is affiliated with the Kone Foundation-funded project Postcolonial Apology and Legacies of Problematic Pasts (2021-2026) and the Research Council of Finland-funded project The Politics of Repair (2025-2029).

• List of Maps and FiguresAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and AcronymsIntroduction: Economies of Care and Return Migration in ZimbabweChapter 1. Chronology of Care, Control and Crisis in BulawayoChapter 2. Crossing Limpopo River: Migration as a Historically Constituted Form of CareChapter 3. Child Migration and the Care of ‘Posted Back Children’Chapter 4. Repatriating the Dead and DyingChapter 5. Power of Papers: Claiming Travel Documents and Birth RegistrationsChapter 6. Serving the ‘Child’s Best Interests’: Custody, Maintenance and Repatriation of ChildrenChapter 7. Working from Their Heart? Community Care, Vulnerability and Affective StateConclusionAppendix: Legislative DocumentsGlossaryReferencesIndex

Saana Hansen is Postdoctoral Researcher in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. She is affiliated with the Kone Foundation-funded project Postcolonial Apology and Legacies of Problematic Pasts (2021-2026) and the Research Council of Finland-funded project The Politics of Repair (2025-2029).

• List of Maps and FiguresAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and AcronymsIntroduction: Economies of Care and Return Migration in ZimbabweChapter 1. Chronology of Care, Control and Crisis in BulawayoChapter 2. Crossing Limpopo River: Migration as a Historically Constituted Form of CareChapter 3. Child Migration and the Care of ‘Posted Back Children’Chapter 4. Repatriating the Dead and DyingChapter 5. Power of Papers: Claiming Travel Documents and Birth RegistrationsChapter 6. Serving the ‘Child’s Best Interests’: Custody, Maintenance and Repatriation of ChildrenChapter 7. Working from Their Heart? Community Care, Vulnerability and Affective StateConclusionAppendix: Legislative DocumentsGlossaryReferencesIndex

Saana Hansen is Postdoctoral Researcher in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. She is affiliated with the Kone Foundation-funded project Postcolonial Apology and Legacies of Problematic Pasts (2021-2026) and the Research Council of Finland-funded project The Politics of Repair (2025-2029).

• List of Maps and FiguresAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and AcronymsIntroduction: Economies of Care and Return Migration in ZimbabweChapter 1. Chronology of Care, Control and Crisis in BulawayoChapter 2. Crossing Limpopo River: Migration as a Historically Constituted Form of CareChapter 3. Child Migration and the Care of ‘Posted Back Children’Chapter 4. Repatriating the Dead and DyingChapter 5. Power of Papers: Claiming Travel Documents and Birth RegistrationsChapter 6. Serving the ‘Child’s Best Interests’: Custody, Maintenance and Repatriation of ChildrenChapter 7. Working from Their Heart? Community Care, Vulnerability and Affective StateConclusionAppendix: Legislative DocumentsGlossaryReferencesIndex