Mobility Makes States : Migration and Power in Africa
Darshan Vigneswaran, Joel Quirk.
Bok · Engelsk · 2015
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| Utgitt | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2015
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (336 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Includes index. While border control and intercontinental migration policies remain important topics of study,Mobility Makes Statesdemonstrates that immigration control is best understood alongside parallel efforts by states in Africa to promote both long-distance and everyday movements. The contributors challenge the image of a fixed and static state that is concerned only with stopping foreign migrants at its border, and show that the politics of mobility takes place across a wide range of locations, including colonial hinterlands, workplaces, camps, foreign countries, and city streets. They examine short-term and circular migrations, everyday commuting and urban expansion, forced migrations, emigrations, diasporic communities, and the mobility of gatekeepers and officers of the state who push and pull migrant populations in different directions. Through the experiences and trajectories of migration in sub-Saharan Africa, this empirically rich volume sheds new light on larger global patterns and state making processes.
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| Emner | Case studies
Government policy Human mobility Internal Vis mer... Migrants
Migration Political aspects Social policy Statebuilding Sub-Saharan Africa JSTOR2020 Peacegroup Russiagroup Securitygroup |
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| ISBN | 978-0-8122-9129-2
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