Smugglers, speculators, and the city in the Ethiopia-Somalia borderlands / Daniel K. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Daniel K., author.

Series:

African studies series ; 171.

African studies series ; 171

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Ethiopia--Jijiga.

City and town life.

Smugglers--Ethiopia--Jijiga--Social conditions.

Smugglers.

Return migrants--Ethiopia--Jijiga--Social conditions.

Return migrants.

Jijiga (Ethiopia)--Social conditions.

Jijiga (Ethiopia).

Jijiga (Ethiopia)--Economic conditions.

Ethiopia--Boundaries.

Ethiopia.

Somalia--Boundaries.

Somalia.

Physical Description:

xiii, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Analysing the work of Ethiopian-Somali smugglers and return-migrant investors, this study explores the relationship between cities and borders amid Africa's rapid urbanization. Daniel Thompson describes how African city-dwellers' lives are shaped by global border security regimes, and how they contest these borders in daily urban life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Connective borders and divided cities

Urban borderwork : unexpected coalitions in a chat den

Smuggling and judgment : (un)making livelihoods in the cross-border cultural economy

Borderland urbanization : exchanges and identities on the urban frontier

Connective borders : federalism's transnational topologies

Contraband urbanity : urban egalitarianisms amid autocracy

Transactional frontiers : urban exchanges that make borders

Conclusion. The future in a frontier city.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-226) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Thompson, Daniel K. Smugglers, speculators, and the city in the Ethiopia-Somalia borderlands

ISBN:

9781009556262

1009556266

9781009556248

100955624X

OCLC:

1451666216