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AFRICA GENERAL

Asiwaju, A. (2005). The Border Areas Initiative, An In-depth Analysis of Relevant UN, EU, World Bank and ECOWAS Reports, Dakar, UN Office for West Africa. 

Asiwaju, A. I. (2003). Comparative African history: Prospects and challenges. Afrika Zamani. Annual Journal of African History, 11-12.

Asiwaju, A. (2003). Boundaries and African Integration: Essays in Comparative History and Policy Analysis. Lagos, PANAF Publishing Inc. 

Asiwaju, A. (2000). Fragmentation or Integration: What Future for African Boundaries? in Pratt, M.A., Brown, J.A. (eds) Borderlands Under Stress. London, Kluwer Law International. 

Asiwaju, A.I. & Adeniyi, P.O. (eds) (1989). Borderlands in Africa. Lagos, Lagos University Press. 

Asiwaju, A.I., Ogun G.O. & Ojukwu E.C.S (eds) (2006). Cross Border Crimes and Community Policing: Prospects and Challenges in Nigeria-Benin Cross-Border Areas of Ogun State. Imeko, African University Institute. 

AUBP (2013). From Barriers to Bridges: Collection of Official Texts on African Borders from 1963 to 2012: Creation and Operation of Boundary Commissions in Africa: The User’s Guide; Delimitation and Demarcation of Boundaries in Africa: The User’s Guide; Installation of a Cross-Border Basic Service Infrastructure: The User’s Guide; Delimitation and Demarcation of Boundaries in Africa: General Issues and Case Studies. Addis Ababa, African Union Commission.

Castryck, G. (ed.) (2019). The bounds of Berlin’s Africa: Space-making and multiple territorialities in East and Central Africa. International Journal of African Historical Studies 52, 1 (special issue).

De Vries, L., Englebert, P., & Schomerus, M. (eds) (2018). Secessionism in African Politics: Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, Disenchantment. London, Palgrave Macmillan.

Dobler, G. (2021). Localising Smuggling. In: Gallien, M., Weigand, F. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling. London and New York: Routledge, 19-29.

Dobler, G. (2016). The green, the grey and the blue: a typology of cross-border trade in Africa. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 54(1), 145.

Engel, U. & Nugent, P. (2010). Respacing Africa. Amsterdam, Brill. 

Frowd, P. M. (2018). Security at the Borders: Transnational Practices and Technologies in West Africa. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Grace, D., & Little, P. (2020). Informal trade in livestock and livestock products. Revue Scientifique et Technique, 39(1), 183-192.

Herbst, J. (1989). The creation and maintenance of national boundaries in Africa. International Organization, 43(4), 673-692.

Katzenellenbogen, S. (1996). It didn’t happen at Berlin. In Nugent, P. & Asiwaju, A.I. (eds) African Boundaries. London, Pinter.

Kopytoff, I. (1987). The African Frontier. The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies. Bloomington, Indiana University Press. 

Korf, B. & Raeymaekers, T. (eds) (2013). Violence on the Margins. States, Conflict, and Borderlands. New York, Palgrave Macmillan. 

Laine, J., Moyo, I. & Nshimbi, C.C. (eds) (2020). Expanding Boundaries: Borders, Mobilities and the Future of Europe-Africa Relations. London, Routledge.

Larémont R.R. (ed.) (2005). Borders, Nationalism and the African State. London, Lynne Reiner. 

Lefebvre, C. (2011). We have tailored Africa: French colonialism and the ‘artificiality’ of Africa’s borders in the interwar period. Journal of Historical Geography, 37(2), 191-202.

Meagher, K. (2014). Smuggling ideologies: from criminalization to hybrid governance in African clandestine economies. African Affairs, 113(453), 497-517.

Mbembé, J. A., & Rendall, S. (2000). At the edge of the world: Boundaries, territoriality, and sovereignty in Africa. Public Culture, 12(1), 259-284.

Moyo, I., Laine, J. & Nshimbi, C.C. (eds) (2021). Intra-Africa Migrations: Reimaging Borders and Migration Management. London, Routledge.

Moyo, I., Nshimbi, C.C. & J. Laine (eds) (2020). Migration Conundrums, Regional Integration and Development: Africa-Europe Relations in a Changing Global Order. London, Palgrave Macmillan.

Nshimbi, C. & Moyo, I. (eds) (2020). Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and Development. Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development. Cham, Springer.

Nshimbi, C., Moyo, I. & Laine, J. (eds) (2021). Borders, Sociocultural Encounters and Contestations. London, Routledge.

Nugent, P., Dorman, S., & Hammett, D. (2007). Citizenship in Africa: Creating Nations, Making Strangers. Leiden, Brill.

Nugent, P., & Asiwaju, A. I. (1996). African Boundaries: Barriers, Conduits and Opportunities, London, Pinter.

Raeymaekers, T., Wilson, T., & Donnan, H. (2012). African boundaries and the new capitalist frontier. In A Companion to Border Studies, 318-331.

Seymour, L. J. (2013). Sovereignty, territory and authority: Boundary maintenance in contemporary Africa. Critical African Studies, 5(1), 17-31.

Soi, I., & Nugent, P. (2017). Peripheral urbanism in Africa: Border towns and twin towns in Africa. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 32(4), 535-556.

Rodrigues, C. U., & Tomas, J. (2012). Crossing African Borders: Migration and Mobility. Lisbon, CEA.

Walther, O. J., & Miles, W. F. (eds) (2017). African Border Disorders: Addressing Transnational Extremist Organizations. London, Routledge.

Zips, W. & Zips-Mairitsch, M. (eds) (2020). Bewildering Borders: The Economy of Conservation in Africa. Munster, LIT Verlag.

WEST AFRICA

Asiwaju, A. (2004). Frontier in Egba History: Abeokuta, Dahomey and Yewaland in the 19th Century. Lagos Historical Review 4, 18-48. 

Asiwaju, A. (2001). West African Transformations: Comparative Impacts of French and British Colonialism. Lagos and Oxford: Malthouse Press. 

Asiwaju, A. (1976). Western Yorubaland Under European Rule: A Comparative Analysis of French and British Colonialism. New York, Humanities Press.

Boilley, P. (2019). Nord-Mali: Les frontières coloniales de l’Azawad. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 53(3), 469-484.

Chalfin, B. (2010). Neoliberal Frontiers. An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press. 

Chalfin, B. (2001). Border zone trade and the economic boundaries of the state in north-east Ghana. Africa, 202-224.

Chilson, P. (2015). Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa. Athens, University of Georgia Press.

Deets, M. W. (2023). A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal. Athens, Ohio University Press.

Evans, M. (2005). Insecurity or isolation? Natural resources and livelihoods in lower Casamance. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 39(2), 284-314.

Faleye, O. A. (2019). Irregular migration and the EU-external border policy in Africa: Historical and philosophical insights. Filosofia Theoretica, 8(3), 59-76.

Faleye, O. A. (2019). Border Securitisation and Politics of State Policy in Nigeria, 2014–2017. Insight on Africa, 11(1), 78-93.

Faleye, O. A. (2016). Regional integration from “below” in West Africa: A study of transboundary town-twinning of Idiroko (Nigeria) and Igolo (Benin). Regions and Cohesion, 6(3), 1-19.

Gaibazzi, P. (2014). Visa problem: certification, kinship, and the production of ‘ineligibility’ in the Gambia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20(1), 38-55.

Hiribarren, V. (2017). A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State, Hurst & Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Kehinde, M. (2007). Comparative impacts of the colonial partition on the Yoruba of Nigeria and Benin. Global South, 4(2), 7-15.

Lefebvre, C. (2015). Frontières de sable, frontières de papier. Histoires de territoires et de frontières, du jihad de Sokoto à la colonisation française du Niger, XIXe-XXe siècles, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne. 

Lentz, C. (2003). ‘This is Ghanaian territory!’: Land conflicts on a West African border. American Ethnologist, 30(2), 273-289.

Masaki, T. (2021). Indian guinée cloth, West Africa, and the French colonial empire 1826–1925: Colonialism and imperialism as agents of globalisation.  Economic History of Developing Regions. DOI:10.1080/20780389.2021.1985454.

Meagher, K. (2003). A back door to globalisation? Structural adjustment, globalisation & transborder trade in West Africa. Review of African Political Economy, 30(95), 57-75.

Miles, W. F. (2015). Postcolonial borderland legacies of Anglo–French partition in West Africa. African Studies Review, 58(3), 191-213.

Miles, W. F. (2005). Development, not division: Local versus external perceptions of the Niger-Nigeria boundary. Journal of Modern African Studies, 297-320.

Miles, W. F. (2003). Shari’a as de-Africanization: Evidence from Hausaland. Africa Today, 51-75.

Miles, W. F. S. (1994). Hausaland Divided: Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger. Ithaca, Cornell University Press.

Nugent, P. (2019). Boundaries, Communities and State-making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Nugent, P. (2004). Africa Since Independence: A Comparative History. London, Palgrave Macmillan. 

Nugent, P. (2003). Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens of the Ghana-Togo Frontier: The Life of the Borderlands Since 1914. Oxford, James Currey. 

Nugent, P. & Lentz, C. (2000). Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention. London, Macmillan. 

Nwaka, G. I, (2021). Colonial boundaries and pointless border conflicts in contemporaneity Africa: Nigeria, Cameroon and the Bakassi crisis. AFRICA, 3(1), 5-23.

Okolie, M. J. (2019). The Politics and Poetics of Ethnic Bordering: Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawn. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 1-14.

Okolie, M. J. (2019). Things Fall Apart, Border Crossing and the Psychology of Exile. Journal of Refugee Studies, fez085.

Okunade, S. K. and Ogunnubi, O (eds) (2023). ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement and the AfCFTA in West Africa. Cham, Springer.

Raunet Robert-Nicoud, N. (2019). Elections and borderlands in Ghana. African Affairs, 118(473), 672-691.

Retaillé, D., & Walther, O. (2011). Spaces of uncertainty: A model of mobile space in the Sahel. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 32(1), 85-101.

Tandia, A. (2018). Islam and Borders in Western Senegambia: A Historical Perspective on Muslim Leaders and Boundary Management. In Mustafa, A.M., Usman, M.T. & Samaila, A. (eds) Readings in (Post-)colonial Borders and Economy in West Africa. Kaduna, Pyla-mak Services Limited.

Trémolières, M., & Walther, O. (2017). Cross-border Co-operation and Policy Networks in West Africa. Paris, OECD.

Valerio, V. C., Walther, O. J., Eilittä, M., Cissé, B., Muneepeerakul, R., & Kiker, G. A. (2020). Network analysis of regional livestock trade in West Africa. PlOS ONE, 15(5), e0232681.

Walther, O. J., Dambo, L., Koné, M., & van Eupen, M. (2020). Mapping travel time to assess accessibility in West Africa: The role of borders, checkpoints and road conditions. Journal of Transport Geography, 82.

Walther, O. (2012). Traders, agricultural entrepreneurs and the development of cross-border regions in West Africa. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 24(3-4), 123-141.

Walther, O. (2009). A mobile idea of space. Traders, patrons and the cross‐border economy in Sahelian Africa. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 24(1), 34-46.

CENTRAL AFRICA

Behrends, A. (2020). Renegotiating humanitarian governance. Challenging invisibility in the Chad-Sudan borderlands. In Bjarnesen, J. & Turner S. (eds) Invisibility in African Displacements. From Structural Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance. London, New York: Zed Books.

Büscher, K., & Vlassenroot, K. (2010). Humanitarian presence and urban development: new opportunities and contrasts in Goma, DRC. Disasters, 34, 256-273.

Bennafla, K. (2002). Le commerce frontalier en Afrique centrale: Acteurs, espaces, pratiques. Paris, Karthala. 

Castryck, G (ed.) (2019). The bounds of Berlin’s Africa: Space-making and multiple territorialities in East and Central Africa. International Journal of African Historical Studies, 52(1).

De Boeck, F. (2000). Borderland breccia: the mutant hero in the historical imagination of a Central-African diamond frontier. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 1(2).

De Vries, L. (2020). Navigating violence and exclusion: The Mbororo’s claim to the Central African Republic’s margins. Geoforum, 109, 162-170.

Devlieger, C. (2018). Rome and the Romains: laughter on the border between Kinshasa and Brazzaville. Africa, 88(1), 160-182.

Devlieger, C. (2022). ‘Losing complexes’: navigating technology, moral careers and mobility among disabled people in Kinshasa. Africa, 92(4), 501-521.

Doevenspeck, M. (2011). Constructing the border from below: narratives from the Congolese–Rwandan state boundary. Political Geography, 30(3), 129-142.

Gordon, D. (2006). Nachituti’s Gift: Economy, Society and Environment in Central Africa. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press. 

Justin, P. H., & De Vries, L. (2019). Governing unclear lines: Local boundaries as a (re) source of conflict in south Sudan. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 34(1), 31-46.

Larmer, M. (2019). Nation-making at the border: Zambian diplomacy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 61(1), 145-175.

Leonardi, C. (2019). Patchwork states: The localization of state territoriality on the South Sudan–Uganda border, 1914–2014. Past & Present, 1-44.

MacGaffey, J. (1991). The Real Economy of Zaire. The Contribution of Smuggling & Other Unofficial Activities to National Wealth. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press. 

Raeymaekers, T. (2010). Protection for sale? War and the transformation of regulation on the Congo–Ugandan border. Development and Change, 41(4), 563-587.

Raeymaekers, T. (2009). The silent encroachment of the frontier: A politics of transborder trade in the Semliki Valley (Congo–Uganda). Political Geography, 28(1), 55-65.

Roitman, J. (2008). A successful life in the illegal realm: smugglers and road bandits in the Chad Basin. Readings in Modernity in Africa, 214-20.

Roitman, J. (2005). Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa. Princeton, Princeton University Press. 

Schomerus, M., & De Vries, L. (2014). Improvising border security:‘A situation of security pluralism’along South Sudan’s borders with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Security Dialogue, 45(3), 279-294.

Scorgie, L. (2013). Prominent peripheries: The role of borderlands in Central Africa's regionalized conflict. Critical African Studies, 5(1), 32-47.

Sowa, K. (2020). Cultural profiling during passport control: Ugandan migration officers’ informal selection practices. Sociologus, 70, 1.

Titeca, K., & Vlassenroot, K. (2012). Rebels without borders in the Rwenzori borderland? A biography of the Allied Democratic Forces. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 6(1), 154-176.

Titeca, K. (2009). The ‘Masai’and miraa: Public authority, vigilance and criminality in a Ugandan border town. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 47(2), 291-317.

Vaughan, C., Schomerus, M., De Vries, L., & de Vries, L. (Eds.). (2013). The Borderlands of South Sudan: Authority and Identity in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. Springer.

Vlassenroot, K., & Raeymaekers, T. (2004). The politics of rebellion and intervention in Ituri: the emergence of a new political complex? African Affairs, 103(412), 385-412.

EAST AFRICA AND THE HORN

Abbink, J. (2001). Creating borders: Exploring the impact of the Ethio-Eritrean war on the local population. Africa, 447-458.

Clapham, C. (1996) Boundary and Territory in the Horn of Africa. In Nugent, P. & Asiwaju, A.I. (eds) African Boundaries: Barriers, Conduits and Opportunities. London, Pinter, 237-250 

Feyissa, D. & Hoehne, M. (2010). Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa. London, James Currey. 

Hagmann, T., & Stepputat, F. (Eds.). (2023). Trade Makes States: Governing the Greater Somali Economy. Hurst Publishers.

Imbert-Vier, S. (2011). Tracer des frontières à Djibouti. Des territoires et des hommes aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Paris, Karthala.

James, W. (2007). War and Survival in Sudan’s Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

James, W. (2001). ‘People-friendly’ projects and practical realities: Some contradictions on the Sudan-Ethiopian border. In Johannsen, M.B. & Kastfelt, N. (eds) Sudanese Society in the Context of Civil War. Copenhagen, Centre of African Studies, 29-47. 

Johnson, D. H. (2010). Border battle line. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies, 5(1), 36-47.

Johnson, D. H. (2008). Why Abyei matters: The breaking point of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement? African Affairs, 107(426), 1-19.

Little, P. D., Tiki, W., & Debsu, D. N. (2015). Formal or informal, legal or illegal: the ambiguous nature of cross-border livestock trade in the Horn of Africa. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 30(3), 405-421.

Little, P. D. 2013. Unofficial Trade when States are Weak: The Case of Cross-Border Livestock Trade in the Horn of Africa. In Bollig, M. et al. (eds) African Pastoralism: Past, Present and Future. New York, Berghahn, 387-410

Little, P. D. (2005). Pastoralism in a stateless environment: The case of the southern Somalia borderlands. Geography Research Forum, 25, 128-47.

Little, P. D. (2003). Somalia: Economy Without State. Bloomington, Indiana University Press.

McPeak, J. G., & Little, P. D. (2018). Mobile peoples, contested borders: Land use conflicts and resolution mechanisms among Borana and Guji Communities, Southern Ethiopia. World Development, 103, 119-132.

Nugent, P., & Soi, I. (2020). One-stop border posts in East Africa: state encounters of the fourth kind. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 1-21.

Schmidt-Sane, M. M., Nielsen, J. O., Chikombero, M., Lubowa, D., Lwanga, M., Gamusi, J., ... & Kaawa-Mafigiri, D. (2020). Challenges to Ebola preparedness during an ongoing outbreak: An analysis of borderland livelihoods and trust in Uganda. PLOS One, 15(3), e0230683.

Simala, K., Amutabi, M. (2005). Small Arms, Cattle Raiding and Borderlands. The Ilemi Triangle. In van Schendel, W. & Itty, A. (eds) Illicit Flows and Criminal Things. States, Borders and the other Side of Globalization. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 201-225.

Tiki, W., & Little, P. D. (2022). Deception and default in a global marketplace: the political economy of livestock export trade in Ethiopia. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1-24.

Thompson, D. K. (2020). Capital of the imperial borderlands: urbanism, markets, and power on the Ethiopia-British Somaliland boundary, ca. 1890–1935. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 1-24.

Thompson, D. K. (2020). Border crimes, extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the racialization of sovereignty in the Ethiopia-British Somaliland borderlands during the 1920s. Africa, 90(4).

Titeca, K. (2012). Tycoons and contraband: Informal cross-border trade in West Nile, north-western Uganda. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 6(1), 47-63.

Titeca, K., & De Herdt, T. (2010). Regulation, cross-border trade and practical norms in West Nile, north-western Uganda. Africa, 80(4), 573-594.

Zeller, W. (2009). Danger and opportunity in Katima Mulilo: A Namibian border boomtown at transnational crossroads. Journal of Southern African Studies, 35(1), 133-154.

NORTH AFRICA

Gallien, M. (2020). Informal institutions and the regulation of smuggling in North Africa. Perspectives on Politics, 18(2), 492-508.

Hüsken, T., & Klute, G. (2015). Political orders in the making: Emerging forms of political organization from Libya to northern Mali. African Security, 8(4), 320-337.

Hüsken, T. (2019). Tribal Politics in the Borderland of Egypt and Libya. New York, Palgrave-Macmillan.

Hüsken, T. (2017). The practice and culture of smuggling in the borderland of Egypt and Libya. International Affairs, 93(4), 897-915.

Hüsken, T. (2017), Tribes and Political Islam in the Borderland of Egypt and Libya - a (Trans) Local Perspective. In Roy, O. & Colombier, V. (eds) Tribes and Islamism in the Middle East. New York, Routledge, 59-81.

Lecocq, B. (2003). This country is your country: Territory, borders, and decentralisation in Tuareg politics. Itinerario, 27(1), 59-78.

Leopold, M. (2005). Inside West Nile: Violence, History and Representation on an African Frontier. Oxford, James Currey.

Malik, A., & Gallien, M. (2020). Border economies of the Middle East: why do they matter for political economy? Review of International Political Economy, 27(3), 732-762.

Marcelino, P. F., & Farahi, H. (2011). Transitional African spaces in comparative analysis: Inclusion, exclusion and informality in Morocco and Cape Verde. Third World Quarterly, 32(5), 883-904.

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Aerni-Flessner, J. (2018). Passports, citizenship, residency and asylum: The meanings of decolonisation in Lesotho. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 46(4), 758-783.

Aerni-Flessner, J., & Twala, C. (2021). Bargaining with land: Borders, Bantustans, and sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies, 47(6), 993-1009.

Aerni-Flessner, J., Twala, C., Mushonga, M., & Magaiza, G. (2022). A transnational history of stock theft on the Lesotho–South Africa border, nineteenth century to 1994. South African Historical Journal, 1-24.

Blaszkiewicz, H. (2019). Enriching the analysis of commercial movement: Convergence and the blurring of trade flows on a border in Southern Africa. Area, 51(4), 797-803.

Blaszkiewicz, H. (2017). La mise en politique des circulations commerciales transfrontalières en Zambie: Infrastructures et moment néolibéral. Géocarrefour, 91(91/3).

Brambilla, C. (2007). Borders and identities/border identities: The Angola‐Namibia border and the plurivocality of the Kwanyama identity. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 22(2), 21-38.

Coplan, D. B. (2001). A river runs through it: The meaning of the Lesotho‐free state border. African Affairs, 100(398), 81-116.

Coplan, D. B. (2000). Unconquered territory: Narrating the Caledon Valley. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 13(2), 185-206.

Dobler, G., Kesselring, R. (2019). Swiss extractivism: Switzerland’s role in Zambia’s copper sector. Journal of Modern African Studies, 57(2), 223-245.

Dobler, G. (2010). On the border to chaos: Identity formation on the Angolan‐Namibian border, 1927–2008. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 25(2), 22-35.

Dobler, G. (2009). Oshikango: the dynamics of growth and regulation in a Namibian boom town. Journal of Southern African Studies, 35(1), 115-131.

Dobler, G. (2009). Chinese shops and the formation of a Chinese expatriate community in Namibia. The China Quarterly, 199, 707-727.

Dobler, G. (2008). Boundary drawing and the notion of territoriality in pre-colonial and early colonial Ovamboland. Journal of Namibian Studies, 3, 7-30.

Dobler, G. (2008). From Scotch whisky to Chinese sneakers: international commodity flows and new trade networks in Oshikango, Namibia. Africa, 410-432.

Englund, H. (2002), From War to Peace in the Mozambique-Malawi Borderland. Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh Press.

Hughes, D. M. (2006). From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier. Seattle,University of Washington Press. 

Impey, A. (2006). Sounding place in the western Maputaland borderlands. Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, 3(1), 55-79.

Landau, L. B., & Monson, T. (2008). Displacement, estrangement and sovereignty: Reconfiguring state power in urban South Africa. Government and Opposition, 43(2), 315-336.

McGregor, J. (2009). Crossing the Zambezi: The Politics of Landscape on a Central African Frontier. Oxford, James Currey.

Monson, T. (2012). Alibis for the state? Producing knowledge and reproducing state borders after the May 2008 ‘xenophobic’attacks in South Africa. Geopolitics, 17(3), 455-481.

Mushonga, M., Aerni-Flessner, J. et al. (2024). Migration, Borders, and Borderlands: Making National Identity in Southern African Communities. Lanham, Lexington Books.

Musoni, F. (2020). Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa. Bloomington, Indiana University Press.

Rodgers, G. (2008). Everyday life and the political economy of displacement on the Mozambique–South Africa borderland. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 26(4), 385-399.

Roque, A. C. (2010). Sources for the history of the southern border of Mozambique: Preliminary results of a project on the archives of the Portuguese Commission of Cartography. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 25(2), 77-93.

Thompson, D. K. (2017). Scaling statelessness: Absent, present, former, and liminal states of Somali experience in South Africa. Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 40(1), 86-103.

Tornimbeni, C. (2005). The state, labour migration and the transnational discourse–A historical perspective from Mozambique.Vienna Journal of African Studies, 8, 307-328.

Tornimbeni, C. (2007). ‘Isto foi sempre assim’: The politics of land and human mobility in Chimanimani, Central Mozambique. Journal of Southern African Studies, 33(3), 485-500.

Udelsmann Rodrigues, C., & Russo, V. (2017). No walk in the park: Transboundary cooperation in the Angolan war-torn Okavango. Environmental Practice, 19(1), 4-15.

Udelsmann Rodrigues, C. U. (2010). Angola’s southern border: entrepreneurship opportunities and the state in Cunene. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 48(3), 461-484.

Wittmayer, J. M., & Büscher, B. (2010). Conserving conflict? Transfrontier conservation, development discourses and local conflict between South Africa and Lesotho. Human Ecology, 38(6), 763-773.

Zeller, W. (2010). Neither arbitrary nor artificial: Chiefs and the making of the Namibia‐Zambia borderland. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 25(2), 6-21.

Zeller, W. (2007). Chiefs, Policing, and Vigilantes:“Cleaning Up” the Caprivi Borderland of Namibia. In State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 79-104). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Zeller, W. (2007). “Now we are a Town”: Chiefs, Investors, and the State in Zambia’s Western Province. In State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 209-231). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

AFRICA AND OTHER REGIONS

Asiwaju, A. (2004). Transfrontier Regionalism: The European Union Perspective On Post-Colonial Africa with Special Reference to Borg. In Heather N. & Townsend-Gault, I. (eds) Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World. Vancouver, University of British Colombia Press, 119-141.

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