Tag: Mobilities
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Historical Migrations in Africa: From Flexible Configurations to Transgressive Mobilities
Historical mobilities in Africa challenge the conceptualisation of mobility and immobility as binaries. In this post, Rose Jaji elaborates on how contemporary migration governance on the continent can be traced back to the transplantation of Western notions of statehood and nationhood to Africa through colonialism, and how these ideas transformed migration and non-migration from continuums…
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“Inequality isn’t just ‘out there’”: Interrogating disparities in research on mobilities and inequality in Africa
In this post, Hassan Ould Moctar and Heike Drotbohm reflect on historical and enduring structural inequalities that affect the conduct and framing of migration scholarship in different ways. They draw on the discussion during a Point Sud workshop co-organised by AMMODI in Ghana in March 2023.