Mobility makes states : migration and power in Africa

Author(s)

• Vigneswaran, Darshan
• Quirk, Joel

Bibliographic Information

Mobility makes states : migration and power in Africa

edited by Darshan Vigneswaran and Joel Quirk

University of Pennsylvania Press, c2015

Note

Includes index

Contents of Works

• Mobility makes states / Joel Quirk and Darshan Vigneswaran
• Portuguese empire building and human mobility in São Tomé and Angola, 1400s-1700s / Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
• "Captive to civilization" : law, labor mobility, and violence in colonial Mozambique / Eric Allina
• Victims, saviors, and suspects : channeling mobility in post-genocide Rwanda / Simon Turner
• Channeling mobility across a segregated Johannesburg / Darshan Vigneswaran
• Policy spectacles : promoting migration-development scenarios in Ghana / Nauja Kleist
• Kinetocracy : the government of mobility at the desert's edge / Benedetta Rossi
• Decolonization and (dis)possession in Lusophone Africa / Pamila Gupta
• Moving from war to peace in the Zambia-Angola borderlands / Oliver Bakewell
• Recognition, solidarity, and the power of mobility in Africa's urban estuaries / Loren B. Landau

Details

• NCID: BB19097814
• ISBN:
  • 9780812247114
• LCCN: 2015008531
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 297 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HB2121.A3
  • DC23 : 307.20967
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Migration, Internal -- Political aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Internal migrants -- Government policy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social policy -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- Case studies
  • LCSH : State, The