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12 - Migration and Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa during the Colonial Period

from Part IV - Circulations of Laborers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2023

Marcelo J. Borges
Affiliation:
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
Madeline Y. Hsu
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme worldwide across the post-1800 centuries was the differentiation between “skilled” and “unskilled” workers, often considered through a racialized lens; it emerged as the primary divide between greater rights of immigration and citizenship for the former, and confinement to temporary or unauthorized migrant status for the latter. Through thirty-one chapters, this volume further evaluates the long global history of migration; and it shows that despite the increased disciplinary systems, the primacy of migration remains and continues to shape political, economic, and social landscapes around the world.

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Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Arrighi, Giovanni. “Labour Supplies in Historical Perspective: A Study of Proletarianization of the African Peasantry in Rhodesia.” Journal of Development Studies 6, 3 (1970), 197234.Google Scholar
Asiwaju, A. I.Migrations as Revolt: The Example of the Ivory Coast and the Upper Volta before 1945.” Journal of African History 17, 4 (1976), 577594.Google Scholar
Baker, Jonathan and Akin Aina, Tade, eds. The Migration Experience in Africa. Upsala: Nordic African Institute, 1995.Google Scholar
Falola, Toyin and Usman, Aribedesi, eds. Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Lindsay, Beverly, ed. African Migration and National Development. State College: Penn State University Press, 1990.Google Scholar
Manning, Patrick. Migration in World History. New York: Routledge, 2013.Google Scholar
Stichter, Sharon. Migrant Labourers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Swindell, K.Labour Migration in Underdeveloped Countries: The Case of Subsaharan Africa.” Progress in Geography 3, 2 (1979), 239598.Google Scholar
Wolpe, Harold. “Capitalism and Cheap Labour-Power in South Africa: From Segregation to Apartheid.” Economy and Society 1, 4 (1972), 425456.Google Scholar
Zegeye, Abebe and Ishemo, Shubi, eds. Forced Labour and Migration: Patterns of Movement within Africa. London: Hans Zell, 1990.Google Scholar

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