African Migrants and the Refugee Crisis

0546565 - SOÚ 2022 RIV CH eng M - Monography Chapter
Uhde, Zuzana
The Global Border Industrial Complex and Eastern Africa: Analyzing the Political Economy of Transnational Migration.
African Migrants and the Refugee Crisis. Cham: Springer, 2021 - (Abegunrin, O.; Abidde, S.), s. 73-93. ISBN 978-3-030-56641-8
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/15
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : migration * political economy * Africa
OECD category: Sociology

The chapter analyses the political economy of transnational migration to shed light on the structural sources of transnational migration and how the geopolitical economy determines political responses to transnational migration. The author argues that global capital benefits from the economic order which produces the structural causes of migration and is also benefiting from today’s political responses to migration – militarisation and securitisation of migration management. The chapter shows how the migration management agenda is shaped by a global border industrial complex and how this broader context is unfolding in Eastern Africa.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0323039