1st Edition

Cross Border Security in the Southern African Region Transcending Statolatry

By Inocent Moyo Copyright 2025
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides a sophisticated analysis of cross-border challenges and problems in the southern African region. It advances explanations that transcend the state-centric narrative that has nationalised cross-border security. It provides insights from non-state actors such as informal cross-border traders (ICBTs), informal cross-border transporters, undocumented migrants, and cross-border... Read more

Chapter 1: The cross-border security conundrum in the Southern African region

Chapter 2: On security and cross-border security

Chapter 3: Borders, orders, and postcolonial governmentality

Chapter 4: Border management, neopatrimonialism, and cross-border security

Chapter 5: The poverty of the cross-border illegalities narrative

Chapter 6: Covid-19 border closures and cross-border security

Chapter 7:  Transcending statolatry

Biography

Inocent Moyo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the Deputy Dean of Research, Innovation, and Internationalisation, in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering at the University of Zululand, South Africa. He researches borders, migration, and the political economy of the informal economy in the Southern African region.