ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|13 pages
Intra-Africa migrations
part Two|71 pages
Intra and inter-Africa migrations and implications
chapter 2|14 pages
Greener grass on the other side
chapter 4|20 pages
Irregular emigration of Nigeria youths
chapter 5|16 pages
Human mobility in the Southern African Development Community region
part Three|70 pages
African physical and symbolic borders and the migration question
chapter 7|20 pages
Stereotyping and regional integration in the East African community
chapter 9|17 pages
Integration, borders and migration in West Africa
part Four|39 pages
Migration governance in Africa: prospects, contests and controversies
chapter 10|19 pages
Migration, governance and geopolitical conflicts in Africa
part Five|7 pages
Reimaging borders and migration management in Africa