Migration in Africa : : shifting patterns of mobility from the 19th to the 21st century / / edited by Michiel de Haas, Ewout Frankema.

• TeilnehmendeR: Frankema, Ewout,; Haas, Michiel de,
• Place / Publishing House: Abingdon, Oxon, England ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (421 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

"This book introduces readers to the age of intra-African migration, a period from the mid-19th century onwards in which the centre of gravity of African migration moved decisively inwards. Most books tend to zoom in on Africa's external migration during the earlier intercontinental slave...

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of maps
• List of contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 The Age of Intra-African Migration: A Synthesis
• Part One Slavery and Migration in the 19th Century
• 2 Migration in the Contexts of Slaving and States in 19th-Century West Africa
• 3 Boom and Bust: The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade in the 19th Century
• 4 Slaves, Porters, and Plantation Workers: Shifting Patterns of Migration in 19th- and Early 20th-Century East Africa
• Part Two Frontiers, Connections, and Confrontations in the 19th Century
• 5 Cattle, Climate, and Caravans: The Dynamics of Pastoralism, Trade, and Migration in 19th-Century East Africa
• 6 Migration and State Formation in Pre-colonial South Africa: Why the 19th Century Was Different
• 7 The Settlers of South Africa: Economic Forces of the Expanding Frontier
• Part Three Colonial Policies and Labor Mobility
• 8 Forced Labor and Migration in British East and West Africa: Shifting Discourses and Practices during the Colonial Era
• 9 Governing Free and Unfree Labor Migration in Portuguese Africa, 19th-20th Century
• 10 Migration and Stabilization: Mining Labor in the Belgian Congo, Northern Rhodesia, and South Africa
• Part Four Shifting Patterns of Circulation and Settlement in the 20th Century
• 11 Cash-Crop Migration Systems in East and West Africa: Rise, Endurance, Decline
• 12 From Temporary Urbanites to Permanent City Dwellers? Rural-Urban Labor Migration in Colonial Southern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo
• 13 Urban Migration in East and West Africa since 1950: Contrasts and Transformations
• Part Five Conflict and Mobility in the 20th Century
• 14 African Military Migration in the First and Second World Wars.
• 15 From Integration to Repatriation. Flight, Displacement, and Expulsion in Post-colonial Africa
• Part Six The End of the Age of Intra-African Migration
• 16 Counting and Categorizing African Migrants, 1980-2020: Global, Continental, and National Perspectives
• Epilogue
• 17 Migration and Development: Lessons from Africa's Long-Run Experience
• Index.