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, sociologists, and anthropologists
explore different patterns of mobility in sub-Saharan Africa and
how African states have sought to harness these movements toward
their own ends. While border control and intercontinental migration
policies remain important topics of study, Mobility Makes States
demonstrates that immigration control is best understood alongside
parallel efforts by states in Africa to promote both long-distance
and everyday movements. The contributors challenge the image of a
fixed and static state that is concerned only with stopping foreign
migrants at its border, and show that the politics of mobility
takes place across a wide range of locations, including colonial
hinterlands, workplaces, camps, foreign countries, and city
streets. They examine short-term and circular migrations, everyday
commuting and urban expansion, forced migrations, emigrations,
diasporic communities, and the mobility of gatekeepers and officers
of the state who push and pull migrant populations in different
directions. Through the experiences and trajectories of migration
in sub-Saharan Africa, this empirically rich volume sheds new light
on larger global patterns and state making processes. Contributors:
Eric Allina, Oliver Bakewell, Pamila Gupta, Nauja Kleist, Loren B.
Landau, Joel Quirk, Benedetta Rossi, Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, Simon
Turner, Darshan Vigneswaran.
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