Mobility Makes States : : Migration and Power in Africa / / ed. by Darshan Vigneswaran, Joel Quirk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Allina, Eric,; Bakewell, Oliver,; Gupta, Pamila,; Kleist, Nauja,; Landau, Loren B.,; Quirk, Joel,; Ribeiro da Silva, Filipa,; Rossi, Benedetta,; Turner, Simon,; Vigneswaran, Darshan,
• HerausgeberIn: Quirk, Joel,; Vigneswaran, Darshan,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 10 illus.

Human mobility has long played a foundational role in producing state territories, resources, and hierarchies. When people move within and across national boundaries, they create both challenges and opportunities. In Mobility Makes States, chapters written by historians, political scientists, sociol...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Chapter 1. Mobility Makes States
• PART I. Channeling Human Mobility
• Chapter 2. Portuguese Empire Building and Human Mobility in São Tomé and Angola, 1400s-1700s
• Chapter 3. ''Captive to Civilization'': Law, Labor Mobility, and Violence in Colonial Mozambique
• Chapter 4. Victims, Saviors, and Suspects: Channeling Mobility in Post-Genocide Rwanda
• Chapter 5. Channeling Mobility Across a Segregated Johannesburg
• Chapter 6. Policy Spectacles: Promoting Migration- Development Scenarios in Ghana
• PART II. Moving Concentrations of Power
• Chapter 7. Kinetocracy: The Government of Mobility at the Desert's Edge
• Chapter 8. Decolonization and (Dis)Possession in Lusophone Africa
• Chapter 9. Moving from War to Peace in the Zambia-Angola Borderlands
• Chapter 10. Recognition, Solidarity, and the Power of Mobility in Africa's Urban Estuaries
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments