"Crossing African Borders: Migration and Mobility"
Fifth Annual Conference of the African Borderlands Research Network ABORNE
"Crossing African Borders: Migration and Mobility", ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon
(21-23 September 2011)
Keynote:
"Traders and Borders in the Sierra Leone-Guinea Region, 19th and 20th Centuries: Comparative and Theoretical Implications"
Allen M. Howard | Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Van Dyck Hall, Rutgers University
Panels:
- Panel 1 - Methodologies for studying cross-border movements
- Panel 2 - Rethinking hierarchies of borders and border crossings?
- Panel 3 -The building of African territorial borders: the impact of pre-colonial and colonial migration on contemporary Africa
- Panel 4 - Forced migration and the role of borders
- Panel 5 - Border crossings and economic circulation: trade, smuggling, labour
- Panel 6 - Border regimes and migrant practices: citizenship, belonging and the making of migrant subjectivities
- Panel 7 - Partitioned Africans
Documentary film screenings:
-"Kalahari Struggle: Southern Africa’s San under Pressure" (53 min.) by Manuela Zips-Mairitsch and Werner Zips
- " 'We have come full circle': The forced migration of Angolan !Xun and Namibian Khwe to Platfontein, South Africa" by Manuela Zips-Mairitsch and Werner Zips
- "Border Farm" (32 min), by Thenijwe Niki Nkosi
- "Esta Fronteira Não Existe" (41min), Perfectview