The report titled "Collaboration and Conflict in Transnationally-Dispersed Zimbabwean Families", was compiled by William Suk, a PhD candidate of Anthropology at the United States of America's Syracuse University.
It will be officially presented at South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand during a lunchtime seminar on Tuesday afternoon.
The report reviews migration trends that have seen great numbers of people move from one country to another, including the millions of Zimbabweans that have been displaced into mostly neighbouring countries, especially South Africa and Botswana.
"Using the case study of Zimbabwean families that are divided between two or more locations, this multi-sited ethnographic research investigates how dispersed international migration influences family life," said Wits University's African Centre for Migration Studies in a statement.
"In particular, the study looks into collaboration and cooperation in family projects such as caring for parents and children, starting businesses, and leaving/returning to Zimbabwe."
The study draws on more than 16 months of research in South Africa, Zimbabwe and the United States through ethnographic interviews and participant-observation.
The author traces transnationally dispersed families through the various diasporic sites where they are located, as well as to interview Zimbabweans who visit, or relocate to, their home country.
William Suk is a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays fellowship for ongoing research on dispersed Zimbabwean families.
His other academic interests include online social networking, particularly in how social media like Facebook and Whatsapp create virtual spaces for relational practices like parenting in dispersed groups, as well as the social implications of the rapidly expanding use of autonomous drone technology in military, civilian and academic applications.
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