ECAS 2009
3rd European Conference on African Studies
Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

Panel 75: Refiguring Mobility, Space, and Sovereignty in Southern Africa (Loren Landau)

Panel Organiser: Loren Landau

Nowhere are the effects of human migration and displacement more visible than in Africa. But while the relationship between sovereignty and mobility are central debates elsewhere, there are few efforts to consider migration and sovereign practices on the continent. This panel explores how human mobility is generating new additions to Africa's heterogeneous spatial, ethnic, national, religious, political and territorial configurations.

Accepted Abstracts

Ambivalent Mobilities: Displaced Zimbabwean Commercial Farmers in Western Mozambique
 
Regional migration policy fora in Southern Africa: bilateral hegemony, regional integration and policy transfers.
 
Sovereignty, Space and African Exceptionalism
 
Changing ways to be South African ? When sovereignty is refered to an oppositon between Nationals and foreigners
Migration and the violence of human rights practice.
The end of laissez-faire refugee integration? Reasserting sovereignty on the Zambia/Angola border
 
Respatialising authority: migrant/migration regimes and their challenge(r)s in Southern Africa