Borders, Sociocultural Encounters and Contestations: Southern African Experiences in Global View

ISBN-13: 9780367408466 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 150 str.

Chris Changwe Nshimbi; Inocent Moyo; Jussi P. Laine

Opis

This book examines the enduring significance of borders in Southern Africa, covering encounters between people, ideas and matter, and the new spatialities and transformations they generate in their historical, social, economic and cultural contexts.

Spis treści

1. Borders as sites of encounter and contestation  2. Sociocultural encounters in geography historicised  3. Grassroots actors, border interactions and regional integration in the Southern African region and SADC  4. Resilience nodes: grassroots-state encounter and interactions in COMESA-EAC-SADC tripartite free trade area border spaces  5. From circumvention to overt resistance at the urban margins: protests against statutory regulations at South Africa-Zimbabwe border  6. Sustaining family ties across the border: unaccompanied child migration across the Botswana-Zimbabwe and South Africa-Zimbabwe borders  7. Long march to South Africa: the breaking of colonial borders through human smuggling of Congolese 8. The securitization of asylum in South Africa: a catalyst for human/physical insecurity  9. Implications of the micro processes of encounter contest in borders