THE STATE, CHIEFS AND THE CONTROL OF FEMALE MIGRATION IN COLONIAL SWAZILAND, c. 1930s-1950s.

Discusses the use of the experience of Swaziland to extend the discourse on why men dominated the migration currents in Swaziland during the colonial period. Argument that it is no longer useful to rely on purely economic explanations of why more men were migrating than women in colonial Swaziland; Power relations at the homestead level whereby men had the power to determine if and when women could migrate; Different strategies employed by Swazi men, in collaboration with colonial administrators, to control the mobility of women.