Migration, Urbanization, and Political Power in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8378554
AutoresClionadh Raleigh (0000-0003-3047-0815, University of Sussex, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume104
Fascículo2
Páginas253-261
Data de publicação2014-03-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00045608.2013.875802
OpenAlexW1989575423
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas57

African political geographies have been overlooked in the discussion of internal migration and urbanization. Yet institutional changes since the early 1990s altered the practices of acquiring and keeping power across Africa, and it is now possible to address how rural and urban areas have changed as a result. In this article, the focus is on how political practices interact with circular internal migration flows. “Democratic” practices depend on the manipulation of rural spatial clustering and migration, but modern political institutions effectively disenfranchise urban and migrant voters, resulting in the continued reproduction and exacerbation of spatial inequalities. Further, these are responsible for the poor conditions of urban areas, the proliferation of rural bias across states, and limited support for urban political identities and programmatic change

Democracy · Developing country · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Internal migration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Urbanization · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Urban and Rural Development Challenges