Enforcing the Line

An Ethnography of the Kenyan Border Regime
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-98017-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 606 g

This book analyses historic and contemporary border regime developments in East Africa, and draws a complex picture of borders control in Africa beyond stereotypical “Western” imaginations. Based on ethnographic research, it describes the everyday realities of Kenyan border officers dealing with colonial border legacies on the ground, and analyses actual enforcement practices. Moreover, the book examines the implementation process of One Stop Border Post (OSBP), which is currently taking place all over the African continent. OSBPs stand in between regional, pan-African as well as neo-colonial, capitalist interests, and will shape cross-border trade, migration, security and transnational relations in the future. The book offers a critical analysis of this implementation process with reference to local voices from different borderlands of Kenya with Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Sudan and Uganda. The case studies thereby exemplify the ambivalent reality of borders worldwide, which simultaneously open and close at the same time, whereby reproducing inequalities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sowa, Katrin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Border Life.- 3. The Border Post.- 4. B/order Control.- 5. Discussion.

Über Autor(innen)

Katrin Sowa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research project in Kenya was financed by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme in affiliation with Kenyatta University, Kenya.