Crossing African Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crossing African Borders write by Collectif. This book was released on 2017-08-04. Crossing African Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication is one of the results of a conference organised in Lisbon in 2011 on the theme of African borders and their relationships with migration and mobility. The selected papers are a sample of the diverse perspectives on the general theme presented at the meeting. The African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE) promoted this event, allowing a substantial number of its members to exchange results of ongoing and long-term research. The Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) funded the research project Borders and Identity in Africa (PTDC/AFR/098339/2008) which prepared this publication.
Crossing the Line in Africa
Crossing the Line in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crossing the Line in Africa write by Ngwa, Canute Ambe. This book was released on 2019-01-06. Crossing the Line in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores a collective understanding of the perception and treatment of borders in Africa. The notion of boundary is universal as boundaries are also an important part of human social organization. Through the ages, boundaries have remained the ‘container’ by which national space is delineated and ‘contained’. For as long as there has been human society based on territoriality and space, there have been boundaries. With their dual character of exclusivism and inclusivism, states have proven to adopt a more structural approach to the respect of the former in consciousness of the esteem of international law governing sovereignty and territorial integrity. However, frontier peoples and their realities have often opted for the latter situation, imposing a more functionalist perception of these imaginary lines and prompting a border opinion shift to a more blurring form of representation and meaning in most African communities. This collective multidisciplinary effort of understanding how tangible and intangible borders have influenced Africa’s attitude and existence for ages is worthy in its own rights. The difference between what borders are and what they are not to a people is the mere product of their own estimations and practices, a disposition that leads the contributors to this book to study borders beyond states or nations and how borders are crossed or transferred from one point to the other for the convenience of their histories and being.
Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa
Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa write by Francis Musoni. This book was released on 2020-04-07. Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the end of apartheid rule in South Africa and the ongoing economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the border between these Southern African countries has become one of the busiest inland ports of entry in the world. As border crossers wait for clearance, crime, violence, and illegal entries have become rampant. Francis Musoni observes that border jumping has become a way of life for many of those who live on both sides of the Limpopo River and he explores the reasons for this, including searches for better paying jobs and access to food and clothing at affordable prices. Musoni sets these actions into a framework of illegality. He considers how countries have failed to secure their borders, why passports are denied to travelers, and how border jumping has become a phenomenon with a long history, especially in Africa. Musoni emphasizes cross-border travelers' active participation in the making of this history and how clandestine mobility has presented opportunity and creative possibilities for those who are willing to take the risk.
African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration
African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration write by Inocent Moyo. This book was released on 2019-04-25. African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks at the ways African borders impact war and conflict, as well as the ways continental integration could contribute towards cooperation, peace and well-being in Africa. African borders or borderlands can be a source of problems and opportunity. There is often a historical, geospatial and geopolitical architecture rooted in trajectories of war, conflict and instability, which could be transformed into those of peace, regional and continental integration and development. An example is the cross-border and regional response to the Boko Haram insurgency in West Africa. This book engages with cross-border forms of cooperation and opportunity in Africa. It considers initiatives and innovations which can be put in place or are already being employed on the ground, within the current regional and continental integration projects. Another important element is that of cross-border informality, which similarly provides a ready resource that, if properly harnessed and regulated, could unleash the development potential of African borders and borderlands. Students and scholars within Geography, International Relations and Border Studies will find this book useful. It will also benefit civil society practitioners, policymakers and activists in the NGO sector interested in issues such as migration, social cohesion, citizenship and local development.
Crossing African Borders
Crossing African Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crossing African Borders write by Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues. This book was released on 2012. Crossing African Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
