Harry Cro
Biographic Data
| ID | 929253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harry Cro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harry |
| FAMILY NAME | Cro |
| SIGNATURE | CRO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9774-6583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Momar-Coumba Diop, My Colleague and Friend
Imperialism and labour
In West Africa, the Maghreb and elsewhere, regular livelihoods and patterns of circulation have been uprooted, while migrants are terrorised by state policies in Africa and Europe. Global migration governance is apparently failing to encourage ‘safe, orderly and regular migration’ despite its rhetoric of human rights, African integration, free circulation and policy harmonisation. This article compares migration governance with structural adjustm…
Migration, Europe, and the question of political and economic sovereignty in Africa
This debate piece argues for the importance of labour internationalism and anti-imperialism in the anti-racist defence of migrants. A focus on the Sahel region shows some of the ways that core European states militarily, economically and politically undermine countries’ potential for self-determination. Border regimes, their modes of accumulation and selective labour policies expand militarism, social division and inequality between and within th…
The 1958 cotton crisis and the advent of military rule in Sudan
This article examines the 1958 cotton crisis in Sudan, an event that has hitherto been absent in histories of the country and the region. I present the cotton crisis as a crisis of capital during which political, religious, and corporate elites each struggled to regain liquidity and to determine the resulting distribution of money, debts, and power in Sudanese society. The ways in which each of these actors sought to recover investments and refin…
Balancing act
The debate about where to build affordable housing remains unresolved. Fair housing advocates encourage placement in low poverty neighborhoods while community development proponents support the opposite approach. Prior work notes the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is disproportionately found in Black and poor areas but the results are based on 20-year old data and ignore effects within LIHTC neighborhoods. This paper uses recent da…
In tribute to our comrade Samir Amin, 1931–2018
Samir Amin died on 12 August 2018, far into his ninth decade. His contributions to radical political economy in practice as well as in scholarship, to the ways we see the world and realise the worl
Neoliberalism, labour power and democracy – the sense of an ending
Labour will take robust action to end the self-regulation of [UK] Department for International Development private contractors, establishing and enforcing new rules to ensure aid is used to reduce
A comparative political economy of regional migration and labour mobility in West and Southern Africa
Based on a collaboration with the late Lionel Cliffe, this article suggests agendas and methods for analysing regional patterns of migration and labour mobility in Southern and West Africa. It locates local communities in regional patterns and global processes using two key organising concepts: first, the regionalisation of Africa, as outlined in Samir Amin's work. The authors consider continuities and discontinuities with the paradigms of 'Afric…
Muslim families in global Senegal
Muslim families in global Senegal: money takes care of shame." Review of African Political Economy, 43(149), pp. 529–530
Africa and the drugs trade revisited
In the 1990s Africa, once again, became ‘a new frontier’ – this time for the global war on drugs. Recognising the significance of the continent’s immersion in the global drug trade, this journal dedicated a pioneering special issue to the matter in 1999 (Vol. 26, No. 79). The previous year, the UN had held its General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) and published its first major report on drugs in Africa (UNDCP 1999). ROAPE’s focus on …
African women’s struggles in a gender perspective
International audience
The politics of globalized labour in Africa
Finance, Development, and Remittances
The last decade has seen a heightened level of interest in the relationship between remittances and development, driven by the World Bank and other Bretton Woods Institutions. This has materialised in a global agenda to incorporate migrants and their households in commercial banking. The double significance of this policy rests in the financial incorporation of migrants and their households, and in the deepening entrenchment of the historical lab…
Divisive democracy and popular struggle in Africa
Divisive democracy and popular struggle in AfricaIn the post-Cold War international order, this journal has been concerned with the limitations of liberal democracy as demanded by donors, anticipating that it amounts to 'political stability rather than democracy' and 'various forms of authoritarian regime with strictly limited political pluralism' (Cliffe and Seddon 1991, 10).Issa Shivji (1991, 82) has argued that the liberal perspective of democ…
Understanding people and power in African political economy
tribute in this issue.Lionel was a generous friend and mentor to many of us and his deeply engaged scholarship, both in the struggles he brought to light and, with the people around him (in the globalised sense 1 ), substantially exceeds the contemporary dimensions of academic achievement.A loss of this scale leads one inexorably to re-evaluate what is important but Lionel is an inspiration to me because consciously and by example, he also showed…
Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism
People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe. This book offers an explanation for this phenomenon that is based on close analysis of the contradictory economic and political agendas that create and constrain labour migration. It shows how global capitalism regulates different stages of the process within an interconnected system of economic dispossession, …
Labour and underdevelopment? Migration, dispossession and accumulation in West Africa and Europe
Recent waves of accumulation have been well documented in this journal with regard to land and natural resources, but labour is missing from these important analyses of profound continuity and change. This article focuses on ‘step-wise’ migrations and specifically on cases of emigration from Senegal and entry to the Spanish labour market. The labour regime is conceptualised as unfree labour mobility, which integrates dispossession, territorial co…
Chronique d’une transition and La face cachée de la révolution tunisienne
Chronique d'une transition, by Kmar Bendana, Tunis, Les Editions Script, 2011, 213 pp., 8 DT/10 €, ISBN 9789973027856 La face cachee de la revolution tunisienne: Islamisme et occident, une alliance
Rents, rights, rejections and resistance
European Union (EU) migration policy prescribes dialogue and cooperation with the transit countries south of the Mediterranean, embodied in the Barcelona Process from 1995 onwards. This dialogue inflexibly favours the prevention of unwanted migration, which frequently arises as a result of political and economic crisis. Furthermore, the War on Terror has provided the conditions for a militarised ‘buffer zone’. At a time when several Mediterranean…
The EU Migration Regime and West African Clandestine Migrants
This article examines the relationship between the EU migration regime and clandestine migration from West Africa to Europe. A review of the development of EU border and immigration policy reveals significant and sustained moves towards securitisation of migrants and the externalisation of border controls to countries of origin and transit. This emphasis on repression limits the scope of cooperation with ‘third countries’ (those outside Europe) i…
African women’s struggles in a gender perspective
International audience
Finance, Development, and Remittances
The last decade has seen a heightened level of interest in the relationship between remittances and development, driven by the World Bank and other Bretton Woods Institutions. This has materialised in a global agenda to incorporate migrants and their households in commercial banking. The double significance of this policy rests in the financial incorporation of migrants and their households, and in the deepening entrenchment of the historical lab…
Labour and underdevelopment? Migration, dispossession and accumulation in West Africa and Europe
Recent waves of accumulation have been well documented in this journal with regard to land and natural resources, but labour is missing from these important analyses of profound continuity and change. This article focuses on ‘step-wise’ migrations and specifically on cases of emigration from Senegal and entry to the Spanish labour market. The labour regime is conceptualised as unfree labour mobility, which integrates dispossession, territorial co…
The EU Migration Regime and West African Clandestine Migrants
This article examines the relationship between the EU migration regime and clandestine migration from West Africa to Europe. A review of the development of EU border and immigration policy reveals significant and sustained moves towards securitisation of migrants and the externalisation of border controls to countries of origin and transit. This emphasis on repression limits the scope of cooperation with ‘third countries’ (those outside Europe) i…
In tribute to our comrade Samir Amin, 1931–2018
Samir Amin died on 12 August 2018, far into his ninth decade. His contributions to radical political economy in practice as well as in scholarship, to the ways we see the world and realise the worl
A comparative political economy of regional migration and labour mobility in West and Southern Africa
Based on a collaboration with the late Lionel Cliffe, this article suggests agendas and methods for analysing regional patterns of migration and labour mobility in Southern and West Africa. It locates local communities in regional patterns and global processes using two key organising concepts: first, the regionalisation of Africa, as outlined in Samir Amin's work. The authors consider continuities and discontinuities with the paradigms of 'Afric…
Balancing act
The debate about where to build affordable housing remains unresolved. Fair housing advocates encourage placement in low poverty neighborhoods while community development proponents support the opposite approach. Prior work notes the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is disproportionately found in Black and poor areas but the results are based on 20-year old data and ignore effects within LIHTC neighborhoods. This paper uses recent da…
Divisive democracy and popular struggle in Africa
Divisive democracy and popular struggle in AfricaIn the post-Cold War international order, this journal has been concerned with the limitations of liberal democracy as demanded by donors, anticipating that it amounts to 'political stability rather than democracy' and 'various forms of authoritarian regime with strictly limited political pluralism' (Cliffe and Seddon 1991, 10).Issa Shivji (1991, 82) has argued that the liberal perspective of democ…
Rents, rights, rejections and resistance
European Union (EU) migration policy prescribes dialogue and cooperation with the transit countries south of the Mediterranean, embodied in the Barcelona Process from 1995 onwards. This dialogue inflexibly favours the prevention of unwanted migration, which frequently arises as a result of political and economic crisis. Furthermore, the War on Terror has provided the conditions for a militarised ‘buffer zone’. At a time when several Mediterranean…
Imperialism and labour
In West Africa, the Maghreb and elsewhere, regular livelihoods and patterns of circulation have been uprooted, while migrants are terrorised by state policies in Africa and Europe. Global migration governance is apparently failing to encourage ‘safe, orderly and regular migration’ despite its rhetoric of human rights, African integration, free circulation and policy harmonisation. This article compares migration governance with structural adjustm…
Migration, Europe, and the question of political and economic sovereignty in Africa
This debate piece argues for the importance of labour internationalism and anti-imperialism in the anti-racist defence of migrants. A focus on the Sahel region shows some of the ways that core European states militarily, economically and politically undermine countries’ potential for self-determination. Border regimes, their modes of accumulation and selective labour policies expand militarism, social division and inequality between and within th…
Neoliberalism, labour power and democracy – the sense of an ending
Labour will take robust action to end the self-regulation of [UK] Department for International Development private contractors, establishing and enforcing new rules to ensure aid is used to reduce
Africa and the drugs trade revisited
In the 1990s Africa, once again, became ‘a new frontier’ – this time for the global war on drugs. Recognising the significance of the continent’s immersion in the global drug trade, this journal dedicated a pioneering special issue to the matter in 1999 (Vol. 26, No. 79). The previous year, the UN had held its General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) and published its first major report on drugs in Africa (UNDCP 1999). ROAPE’s focus on …
The politics of globalized labour in Africa
The EU Migration Regime and West African Clandestine Migrants
This article examines the relationship between the EU migration regime and clandestine migration from West Africa to Europe. A review of the development of EU border and immigration policy reveals significant and sustained moves towards securitisation of migrants and the externalisation of border controls to countries of origin and transit. This emphasis on repression limits the scope of cooperation with ‘third countries’ (those outside Europe) i…
Rents, rights, rejections and resistance
European Union (EU) migration policy prescribes dialogue and cooperation with the transit countries south of the Mediterranean, embodied in the Barcelona Process from 1995 onwards. This dialogue inflexibly favours the prevention of unwanted migration, which frequently arises as a result of political and economic crisis. Furthermore, the War on Terror has provided the conditions for a militarised ‘buffer zone’. At a time when several Mediterranean…
Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism
People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe. This book offers an explanation for this phenomenon that is based on close analysis of the contradictory economic and political agendas that create and constrain labour migration. It shows how global capitalism regulates different stages of the process within an interconnected system of economic dispossession, …
Labour and underdevelopment? Migration, dispossession and accumulation in West Africa and Europe
Recent waves of accumulation have been well documented in this journal with regard to land and natural resources, but labour is missing from these important analyses of profound continuity and change. This article focuses on ‘step-wise’ migrations and specifically on cases of emigration from Senegal and entry to the Spanish labour market. The labour regime is conceptualised as unfree labour mobility, which integrates dispossession, territorial co…
Chronique d’une transition and La face cachée de la révolution tunisienne
Chronique d'une transition, by Kmar Bendana, Tunis, Les Editions Script, 2011, 213 pp., 8 DT/10 €, ISBN 9789973027856 La face cachee de la revolution tunisienne: Islamisme et occident, une alliance
Understanding people and power in African political economy
tribute in this issue.Lionel was a generous friend and mentor to many of us and his deeply engaged scholarship, both in the struggles he brought to light and, with the people around him (in the globalised sense 1 ), substantially exceeds the contemporary dimensions of academic achievement.A loss of this scale leads one inexorably to re-evaluate what is important but Lionel is an inspiration to me because consciously and by example, he also showed…
The politics of globalized labour in Africa
Finance, Development, and Remittances
The last decade has seen a heightened level of interest in the relationship between remittances and development, driven by the World Bank and other Bretton Woods Institutions. This has materialised in a global agenda to incorporate migrants and their households in commercial banking. The double significance of this policy rests in the financial incorporation of migrants and their households, and in the deepening entrenchment of the historical lab…
Divisive democracy and popular struggle in Africa
Divisive democracy and popular struggle in AfricaIn the post-Cold War international order, this journal has been concerned with the limitations of liberal democracy as demanded by donors, anticipating that it amounts to 'political stability rather than democracy' and 'various forms of authoritarian regime with strictly limited political pluralism' (Cliffe and Seddon 1991, 10).Issa Shivji (1991, 82) has argued that the liberal perspective of democ…
Muslim families in global Senegal
Muslim families in global Senegal: money takes care of shame." Review of African Political Economy, 43(149), pp. 529–530
Africa and the drugs trade revisited
In the 1990s Africa, once again, became ‘a new frontier’ – this time for the global war on drugs. Recognising the significance of the continent’s immersion in the global drug trade, this journal dedicated a pioneering special issue to the matter in 1999 (Vol. 26, No. 79). The previous year, the UN had held its General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) and published its first major report on drugs in Africa (UNDCP 1999). ROAPE’s focus on …
African women’s struggles in a gender perspective
International audience
Neoliberalism, labour power and democracy – the sense of an ending
Labour will take robust action to end the self-regulation of [UK] Department for International Development private contractors, establishing and enforcing new rules to ensure aid is used to reduce
A comparative political economy of regional migration and labour mobility in West and Southern Africa
Based on a collaboration with the late Lionel Cliffe, this article suggests agendas and methods for analysing regional patterns of migration and labour mobility in Southern and West Africa. It locates local communities in regional patterns and global processes using two key organising concepts: first, the regionalisation of Africa, as outlined in Samir Amin's work. The authors consider continuities and discontinuities with the paradigms of 'Afric…
In tribute to our comrade Samir Amin, 1931–2018
Samir Amin died on 12 August 2018, far into his ninth decade. His contributions to radical political economy in practice as well as in scholarship, to the ways we see the world and realise the worl
Balancing act
The debate about where to build affordable housing remains unresolved. Fair housing advocates encourage placement in low poverty neighborhoods while community development proponents support the opposite approach. Prior work notes the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is disproportionately found in Black and poor areas but the results are based on 20-year old data and ignore effects within LIHTC neighborhoods. This paper uses recent da…
Migration, Europe, and the question of political and economic sovereignty in Africa
This debate piece argues for the importance of labour internationalism and anti-imperialism in the anti-racist defence of migrants. A focus on the Sahel region shows some of the ways that core European states militarily, economically and politically undermine countries’ potential for self-determination. Border regimes, their modes of accumulation and selective labour policies expand militarism, social division and inequality between and within th…
The 1958 cotton crisis and the advent of military rule in Sudan
This article examines the 1958 cotton crisis in Sudan, an event that has hitherto been absent in histories of the country and the region. I present the cotton crisis as a crisis of capital during which political, religious, and corporate elites each struggled to regain liquidity and to determine the resulting distribution of money, debts, and power in Sudanese society. The ways in which each of these actors sought to recover investments and refin…
Momar-Coumba Diop, My Colleague and Friend
Imperialism and labour
In West Africa, the Maghreb and elsewhere, regular livelihoods and patterns of circulation have been uprooted, while migrants are terrorised by state policies in Africa and Europe. Global migration governance is apparently failing to encourage ‘safe, orderly and regular migration’ despite its rhetoric of human rights, African integration, free circulation and policy harmonisation. This article compares migration governance with structural adjustm…
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