Governing Mobility in Southern African Cities projects |
As Africa's cities grow and their administrations become decentralised, mobility is generating new social configurations and patterns of power, authority, and belonging. Projects developed under this theme explore how movement is transforming urban governance by redistributing population, resources and claims on these resources, shifting policy networks, altering the flow of information and resources, and generating new political subjectivities and forms of citizenship.
Control remains the central objective of global migration governance, however, the literature has been mostly focused on movements from developing to developed countries. We know comparatively little...
This project is a joint initiative from the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS – University of the Witwatersrand) and the French Institute of South Africa. It is part of an international...
This project addresses the politics of spatial redistribution of people and power in six African cities: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Maputo, Lubumbashi, Nairobi, and Kinshasa. As Africa’s cities grow,...