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Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and DevelopmentImagining Borders, Borderlands, Migration and Integration in Africa: The Search for Connections and Disjunctures

Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and Development: Imagining Borders, Borderlands,... [Recent literature on African borders, informality and migration focuses on the potential role of political borders as the key architecture of mobility. This chapter makes the case for considering national borders as vital sites in the construction of social geographies in Africa that focus on mobility, informality and regional integration. This chapter argues that there is a need for border studies that address cross-border issues and borderlands in ways that provide meaning to the largely invisible aspects of border spaces. Drawing on conceptual debates and empirical work on bordering processes, mobility and regional integration, this chapter addresses the tension between opening borders up for increased mobility and intensification of border control measures aimed at increased border securitization.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and DevelopmentImagining Borders, Borderlands, Migration and Integration in Africa: The Search for Connections and Disjunctures

Part of the Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development Book Series
Editors: Nshimbi, Christopher Changwe; Moyo, Inocent
Tevera, Daniel
Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and Development — Jun 23, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-42889-1
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15 –23
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-42890-7_2
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[Recent literature on African borders, informality and migration focuses on the potential role of political borders as the key architecture of mobility. This chapter makes the case for considering national borders as vital sites in the construction of social geographies in Africa that focus on mobility, informality and regional integration. This chapter argues that there is a need for border studies that address cross-border issues and borderlands in ways that provide meaning to the largely invisible aspects of border spaces. Drawing on conceptual debates and empirical work on bordering processes, mobility and regional integration, this chapter addresses the tension between opening borders up for increased mobility and intensification of border control measures aimed at increased border securitization.]

Published: Jun 23, 2020

Keywords: African borders; Informality; Migration; Mobility; Regional integration; Cross border

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