Book launch: Mobility Makes States – Migration and Power in Africa

Human mobility has long played a foundational role in producing state territories, resources, and hierarchies. When people move within and across national boundaries, they create both challenges and opportunities. In Mobility Makes States, chapters written by historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists explore different patterns of mobility in sub-Saharan Africa and how African states have sought to harness these movements toward their own ends.

The following authors and editors of the book will be on hand to engage in a lively conversation on the book’s efforts to provide a new voice for African research in the study of the politics of migration:

Simon Turner (AMIS, UCPH), Nauja Kleist (DIIS), Filipa Ribeiro da Silva (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) & Darshan Vigneswaran (Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam).

The event is co-organized by AMIS & DIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies).