Migration in Africa : shifting patterns of mobility from the 19th to the 21st century /
"This book introduces readers to the age of intra-African migration, a period from the mid-19th century onwards in which the centre of gravity of African migration moved decisively inwards. Most books tend to zoom in on Africa's external migration during the earlier intercontinental slave...
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Abingdon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of maps
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The Age of Intra-African Migration: A Synthesis
- Part One Slavery and Migration in the 19th Century
- 2 Migration in the Contexts of Slaving and States in 19th-Century West Africa
- 3 Boom and Bust: The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade in the 19th Century
- 4 Slaves, Porters, and Plantation Workers: Shifting Patterns of Migration in 19th- and Early 20th-Century East Africa
- Part Two Frontiers, Connections, and Confrontations in the 19th Century
- 5 Cattle, Climate, and Caravans: The Dynamics of Pastoralism, Trade, and Migration in 19th-Century East Africa
- 6 Migration and State Formation in Pre-colonial South Africa: Why the 19th Century Was Different
- 7 The Settlers of South Africa: Economic Forces of the Expanding Frontier
- Part Three Colonial Policies and Labor Mobility
- 8 Forced Labor and Migration in British East and West Africa: Shifting Discourses and Practices during the Colonial Era
- 9 Governing Free and Unfree Labor Migration in Portuguese Africa, 19th-20th Century
- 10 Migration and Stabilization: Mining Labor in the Belgian Congo, Northern Rhodesia, and South Africa
- Part Four Shifting Patterns of Circulation and Settlement in the 20th Century
- 11 Cash-Crop Migration Systems in East and West Africa: Rise, Endurance, Decline
- 12 From Temporary Urbanites to Permanent City Dwellers? Rural-Urban Labor Migration in Colonial Southern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo
- 13 Urban Migration in East and West Africa since 1950: Contrasts and Transformations
- Part Five Conflict and Mobility in the 20th Century
- 14 African Military Migration in the First and Second World Wars.
- 15 From Integration to Repatriation. Flight, Displacement, and Expulsion in Post-colonial Africa
- Part Six The End of the Age of Intra-African Migration
- 16 Counting and Categorizing African Migrants, 1980-2020: Global, Continental, and National Perspectives
- Epilogue
- 17 Migration and Development: Lessons from Africa's Long-Run Experience
- Index.