One-stop border posts in East Africa

State Encounters of the Fourth Kind

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2182597
AutoresPaul Nugent (0000-0003-4950-6347, SOAS University of London, autor correspondente), Isabella Soi (0000-0002-9023-1317, University of Cagliari)
Ano2020
Volume14
Fascículo3
Páginas433-454
Data de publicação2020-07-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Eastern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1753-1055 • E-ISSN: 1753-1063
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17531055.2020.1768468
OpenAlexW3031702386
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas20

Across Africa, One-Stop Border Posts are being rolled out as part of a continental/ regional integration agenda that seeks to facilitate the movement of people and goods. This article focuses on four OSBPs in East Africa and addresses the question, firstly, of how far they make a break with entrenched operational patterns within government bureaucracies, and secondly whether they represent a distinct type of border management regime? The article finds that while there has been progress on data sharing in Customs, the construction and management of OSBPs reflects the persistence of distinct institutional cultures within each country. Moreover, working practices involve practical workarounds which belie notions of a paperless border. Secondly, the article finds that OSBPs are unlike other border crossings and share some features with airports and seaports in that they have been designed to handle both cargo and people. But they differ in that they are not heavily securitized and represent co-produced spaces of interaction in which transporters and members of the surrounding community have helped to shape the organizational patterns. The outcomes fuse an official ideology of service, everyday bureaucratic practice and local understandings of ownership

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