Editors:
- Assesses human mobility, borders and regional integration in Africa
- Written from an African perspective
- Highlights complex historical interconnections on the African continent
Part of the book series: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development (AAESPD)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Borders, Mobility and Integration in Africa: Concepts and Issues
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Front Matter
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Borders, the Governance Question and Integration
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Front Matter
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Borders, the Transboundary Natural Resources Question and Integration
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About this book
This book examines social, economic and political issues in West, Eastern and Southern Africa in relation to borders, human mobility and regional integration. In the process, it highlights the innovative aspects of human agency on the African continent, and presents a range of empirical case studies that shed new light on Africa’s social, economic and political realities.
Further, the book explores cooperation between African nation-states, including their historical socioeconomic interconnections and governance of transboundary natural resources. Moreover, the book examines the relationship between the spatial mobility of borders and development, and the migration regimes of nation-states that share contiguous borders in different geographic territories. Further topics include the coloniality of borders, sociocultural and ethnic relations, and the impact of physical borders on human mobility and wellbeing.
Given its scope, the book represents a unique resource that offers readers a wealth of new insights into today’s Africa.
Keywords
- Regional integration and development
- Border studies
- Human mobility
- African nation-states
- Coloniality of borders
- African worldview
- Development studies
- Social, economic and political issues in Africa
- Easters, Southern and West Africa
- Transboundary natural resources governance
- African gender studies
- Migration in Africa
- Post-Colonial studies
Editors and Affiliations
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Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn), Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa
Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
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Geography & Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, South Africa
Inocent Moyo
About the editors
Dr Inocent Moyo is a Senior Lecturer at and Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand (South Africa). His research interests include migration and development, migration and immigration politics, cross-border trade, regional integration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), transnationalism, borders and borderlands, and urban informality and governance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and Development
Book Subtitle: Issues, Dynamics and Perspectives in West, Eastern and Southern Africa
Editors: Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo
Series Title: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42890-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42889-1Published: 23 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42892-1Published: 24 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42890-7Published: 22 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2198-7262
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7270
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 187
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: African Economics, Regional Development, African Politics, Migration, Development and Post-Colonialism, Development and Social Change