Vigneswaran / Quirk Mobility Makes States

Migration and Power in Africa
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8122-9129-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

In Mobility Makes States, political scientists, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists examine the role of mobility in shaping how states are formed and how they behave. Focusing on links between power and migration across sub-Saharan Africa, the book explores how and why states have sought to harness movements towards their own ends.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vigneswaran, Darshan

Quirk, Joel

Über Autor(innen)

Darshan Vigneswaran is Codirector of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Amsterdam, as well as a Senior Researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand. Joel Quirk is Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is author of The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.