Borders Mobility Regional Integration And Development

Author : Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Inocent Moyo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030428907

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Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and Development by Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Inocent Moyo Pdf

This book examines social, economic and political issues in West, Eastern and Southern Africa in relation to borders, human mobility and regional integration. In the process, it highlights the innovative aspects of human agency on the African continent, and presents a range of empirical case studies that shed new light on Africa’s social, economic and political realities. Further, the book explores cooperation between African nation-states, including their historical socioeconomic interconnections and governance of transboundary natural resources. Moreover, the book examines the relationship between the spatial mobility of borders and development, and the migration regimes of nation-states that share contiguous borders in different geographic territories. Further topics include the coloniality of borders, sociocultural and ethnic relations, and the impact of physical borders on human mobility and wellbeing. Given its scope, the book represents a unique resource that offers readers a wealth of new insights into today’s Africa.

Author : Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Inocent Moyo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319553993

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Migration, Cross-Border Trade and Development in Africa by Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Inocent Moyo Pdf

Based on migration dynamics in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, this edited volume focuses on the activities of grassroots and informal non-state actors. The authors explore cross-border economic activities, migration governance issues, the regional integration project of the SADC, and implications for sustainable development in Africa. Examining the apparent success of immigrant entrepreneurs operating in cities of economically depressed countries such as Zimbabwe, it also discusses the role of local authorities in managing migration to achieve development. Thus, the book is centred on human mobility, the building of cohesive communities between immigrants and indigenous people, the informal economic activities of cross-border traders and undocumented migrants, and regional integration, providing a multidisciplinary and rich source of knowledge for scholars interested in African politics, labour, migration and economy.

Author : Inocent Moyo,Jussi P. Laine,Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000343908

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Intra-Africa Migrations by Inocent Moyo,Jussi P. Laine,Christopher Changwe Nshimbi Pdf

This book discusses regional and continental integration in Africa by examining the management of migration across the continent. It examines borders and securitisation of migration and the challenges and opportunities that arise out of reconfigured continental demographics. The book offers insights on intra-Africa migrations and highlights how intra-continental migration creates socio-economic and cultural borders. It explores how these borders, beyond the physical boundaries of states, including the Berlin Conference-constructed borders, create cultural divides, challenges for economic integration and cross-border security, and irregular migration patterns. While the movement of economic goods is valued for regional economic integration, the mobility of people is seen as a threat. This approach to migration contradicts the intentions of true integration and development, and triggers negative responses such as xenophobia that cannot be addressed by simply managing the physical border and allowing free movement. This book engages in a pivotal discussion of these issues, which are hitherto missing in African border studies, by demonstrating the ubiquity and overreaching influence of various kinds of borders on the African continent. With multidisciplinary contributions that provide an in-depth understanding of intra-Africa migrations and strategies for enhanced migration management, this book will be a useful resource for scholars and students studying geography, politics, security studies, development studies, African studies and sociology.

Author : Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137479532

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Migration and Regional Integration in West Africa by Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran Pdf

This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of the ECOWAS' intent of transmuting the sub-region into a single socio-economic (and political) entity.

Author : Witada Anukoonwattaka,Adam Heal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Asia
ISBN : OCLC:929632296

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Regional Integration and Labour Mobility by Witada Anukoonwattaka,Adam Heal Pdf

Labour migration in the Asia-Pacific is dynamic and growing. Variable economic growth, deepening regional integration, and growing disparities in wealth, both within and among countries, have created strong incentives for workers to relocate across borders. Patterns of migration are also becoming more complex: the traditional concept of labour migration as being from 'South' to 'North' is no longer accurate to capture the nuanced patterns of flows across the Asia-Pacific. There is a broad consensus that international labour mobility can contribute positively to development and poverty reduction under certain conditions. The ability to earn higher salaries abroad is broadly good for migrants and their families, and for communities remaining behind in the sending countries. Further, contrary to widespread beliefs that inward migration is socially and economically harmful, receiving countries can also benefit from the skills and economic dynamism brought by new arrivals. But there are also costs involved with migration including: high transaction costs for migrants themselves, low levels of protection for workers' rights, and high human and social costs associated with distance from places of origin. Migration, when not well-managed, can also raise social tensions. Unlike international trade, mechanisms for international governance of migration are underdeveloped. However, some regional initiatives, including regional trade agreements, are increasingly including provisions on migration. This paper reviews recent labour migration trends in the Asia-Pacific region. This is followed by a discussion of the main channels which link labour migration and development combined with analysis of policies that can enhance the developmental impact of migration. Finally, regional co-operation initiatives in the area of migration are summarized and proposals for reform at the regional and bilateral level are advanced.

Author : Inocent Moyo,Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Jussi P. Laine
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811524783

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Migration Conundrums, Regional Integration and Development by Inocent Moyo,Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Jussi P. Laine Pdf

This book examines Africa-Europe relationships and intra-Africa relationships vis-à-vis migration. It analyses the African integration project that is being used to effectively manage migration within Africa and across its RECs, and harnessing it for development. The book presents debates related to the EU’s hardening and securitisation of its external border against migrants from Africa. It shows that migration actually challenges Africa-European relations, which is discussed as an important theme in this book. Authors in this book volume investigate several issues ranging from conundrums relating to migration between Africa and Europe to migration within Africa, but also in relation to borders and boundaries, its bearing on regional and continental integration and the significance of this in terms of relations between Africa and Europe. This book volume brings into conversation issues relating to the governance of migration for development, social cohesion and regional integration.

Author : Dr Martin van der Velde,Dr Ton van Naerssen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472407627

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Mobility and Migration Choices by Dr Martin van der Velde,Dr Ton van Naerssen Pdf

The crossing of national state borders is one of the most-discussed issues of contemporary times and it poses many challenges for individual and collective identities. This concerns both short-distance mobility as well as long-distance migration. Choosing to move - or not - across international borders is a complex decision, involving both cognitive and emotional processes. This book tests the approach that three crucial thresholds need to be crossed before mobility occurs; the individual’s mindset about migrating, the choice of destination and perception of crossing borders to that location and the specific routes and spatial trajectories available to get there. Thus both borders and trajectories can act as thresholds to spatial moves. The threshold approach, with its focus on processes affecting whether, when and where to move, aims to understand the decision-making process in all its dimensions, in the hope that this will lead to a better understanding of the ways migrants conceive, perceive and undertake their transnational journeys. This book examines the three constitutive parts discerned in the cross-border mobility decision-making process: people, borders and trajectories and their interrelationships. Illustrated by a global range of case studies, it demonstrates that the relation between the three is not fixed but flexible and that decision-making contains aspects of belonging, instability, security and volatility affecting their mobility or immobility.

Author : Yuichi Sasaoka,Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo,Sayoko Uesu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000542783

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Perspectives on the State Borders in Globalized Africa by Yuichi Sasaoka,Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo,Sayoko Uesu Pdf

Assessing the different kinds of borders between African nations, the contributors present a borderland and trans-region approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the peoples of the African continent. Africa faces rampant violence, terrorism, deterioration of water-energy-food provision, influxes of refugees and immigrants, and religious hatred under the trends of globalization. Solutions for these issues require new perspectives that are not attempted by conventional state-building approaches. Statehood is limited in many places on the African continent because many states are combined by loose political ties. African states’ borders tend to be regarded as porous and fragile. However, as the contributors to this volume argue, those porous borders can contribute to cultural and socio-economic network construction beyond states and the creation of active borderlands by increasing people’s mobility, contact, and trade. A must read for scholars of African studies that will also be of great value to academics and students with a broader interest in nationhood, globalization, and borders.

Author : Eduardo Medeiros
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000472356

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Border Cities and Territorial Development by Eduardo Medeiros Pdf

This monograph analyses the role of border cities in promoting territorial development processes in border regions across the world. It not only embraces the scientific fields of regional and urban studies but also addresses territorial (urban, local, regional) development and planning theories, as well as the effects of development policies applied to border regions in both Europe and North America. In essence, the book offers a full toolkit of border regions' territorial development knowledge and, in particular, advances a range of policy development proposals. It provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary thinking about how border cities can play a decisive role in boosting territorial development processes in border regions. The book is divided into three parts. Part I presents a theoretical framework on the role of border cities in promoting territorial development and planning in border regions. Part II debates current mainstream policies focusing on supporting border regions and specifically border cities in the EU, the UK, and North America. Finally, Part III presents a wealth of updated knowledge, based on the analysis of several concrete case studies: border cities from both Europe (north, south, east and west) and North America (Canada, the United States, and Mexico). The chapters are written by some of the most renowned authors on the subject, including scholars from several European and North American countries, as well as the secretary generals of three European border regions associations (AEBR, MOT, and CESCI). The book will thoroughly prepare students and provide knowledge to academics and policymakers in the fields of urban and regional planning and development studies, human geography, economic development, EU policies, border regions, and policy impacts.

Author : Nita, Sonja,Pécoud, Antoine,Lombaerde, Philippe de,Neyts, Kate,Gartland, Joshua,United Nations University. UNU-CRIS
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002588

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Migration, free movement and regional integration by Nita, Sonja,Pécoud, Antoine,Lombaerde, Philippe de,Neyts, Kate,Gartland, Joshua,United Nations University. UNU-CRIS Pdf

Author : M. van der Velde,Henk van Houtum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Boundaries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110128944

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Borders, Regions, and People by M. van der Velde,Henk van Houtum Pdf

Author : Vusi Gumede,Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba,Serges Djoyou Kamga
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004411227

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Regional Integration and Migration in Africa by Vusi Gumede,Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba,Serges Djoyou Kamga Pdf

This comparative book debates migration and regional integration in the two regional economic blocs, namely the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The book takes a historical and nuanced citizenship approach to integration by analysing regional integration from the perspective of non-state actors and how they negotiate various structures and institutions in their pursuit for life and livelihood in a contemporary context marked by mobility and economic fragmentation.

Author : Gabriel Popescu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742556218

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Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century by Gabriel Popescu Pdf

This timely book introduces readers to the central question of borders in the twenty-first century. After familiarizing readers with border thinking and making from antiquity to the present, Gabriel Popescu turns a critical eye on current border-making concepts, processes, and contexts. Throughout, he offers a balanced understanding of borders, explaining why and how interstate borders have emerged, whose interest they serve, who is involved in border making, and how border-making practices affect societies. Assessing the latest theoretical approaches to border studies, the author deftly incorporates a range of disciplinary perspectives, including geography, international relations, sociology, history, security studies, and anthropology. Popescu exploresrecent world events, discussing how current issues such as migration, terrorism, global warming, pandemics, the human rights regime, outsourcing, the economic crisis, supranational integration, regionalization, and digital technology relate to borders andinfluence our lives. Written with a clear eye and voice, this book makes a complex subject accessible to a wide readership.

Author : Vincent Kaufmann,Ander Audikana,Guillaume Drevon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000479935

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Europe Beyond Mobility by Vincent Kaufmann,Ander Audikana,Guillaume Drevon Pdf

Mobility, which has represented a critical scientific category and political driver, is currently under strong public scrutiny: has mobility lost its potential for social cohesion and political integration? Europe Beyond Mobility: Mobilities, Social Cohesion and Political Integration assesses this question by focusing on the European integration process, conceptualized as a political project for the promotion of different flows of mobility. Mobility has been a fundamental tool for territorial strength and political integration among European countries. Based on a realistic understanding of the potentials and limits of mobility, this book pleads for a "resonant mobility" in the interest of a renovated European integration process. It examines how, in opposition to those advocating for national borders and mobility restrictions, the EU needs to explore new regulatory models which limit mobility’s adverse social, economic, and environmental impacts and make accessible the benefits of alternative flow models. It also provides an analytical framework for the study of current trends of mobility limitation, migration restriction and re-bordering, and offers a complementary and innovative framework for the study of globalization. Europe Beyond Mobility will be of interest to academics and students as well as policy makers and practitioners internationally in the fields of mobility, migration and border studies.

Author : Reece Jones,Md. Azmeary Ferdoush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Borderlands
ISBN : 9462984549

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Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond by Reece Jones,Md. Azmeary Ferdoush Pdf

This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders.