Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa

Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples.
Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples.State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as well as obstacles for the communities straddling both sides of the border. This book deals with the conduits and opportunities of state borders in the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the people living there exploit state borders through various strategies. Using a micro level perspective, the case studies, which includethe Horn and Eastern Africa, particularly the borders of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, focus on opportunities, highlight the agency of the borderlanders, and acknowledge the permeabilitybut consequentiality of the borders. DEREJE FEYISSA, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; MARKUS VIRGIL HOEHNE, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.

Contributor: Dereje Feyissa (Edited by), Markus Virgil Hoehne (Edited by), Cedric Barnes (Contributions by), Christopher Clapham (Contributions by), Dereje Feyissa (Contributions by), Fekadu Adugna (Contributions by), Francesca Declich (Contributions by), Günther Schlee (Contributions by), Lee Cassanelli (Contributions by), Markus Virgil Hoehne (Contributions by), Peter Wafula Wekesa (Contributions by), Yasin Mohammed (Contributions by), Wolbert G C Smidt (Contributions by)

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