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Conclusion: Archipelagos and Estuaries: Mobility, Local Authorities and the Governance of Multiple Elsewheres

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Rapid movements of people into, within and out of cities worldwide are rescaling and respatialising process of economic and social exchange and forms of political representation and membership. Drawing on empirical research in South Africa and Botswana, this chapter considers the politics and governance of estuarial zones and archipelagos generated by rapid population growth, ongoing human mobility and socio-economic translocality. It argues that local authorities are rarely equipped to respond to the fundamental challenges these formations present let alone capitalise on the opportunities such fluid urbanism offers. The obstacles are conceptual, institutional and political. For one, there is insufficient awareness and acceptance that movement and multilocality have local implications, and are local responsibilities. Yet for municipal authorities to develop proactive, progressive responses, institutional and political incentives––including budgeting and accountability––must also be recognised and addressed. This will require reconsidering administrative demarcation and understandings of political community. The chapter ends with suggestions for developing new modes of analysis and engagement reconsidered for an era of mobility and multilocality.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For a review of these debates, see Kymlicka (2010); Joppke (2007); Penninx and Martiniello (2004).

  2. 2.

    Figures from http://www.southafrica.info/news/urbanisation-240113.htm#.U1lnPSib-ZY#ixzz2zpnPgb68

  3. 3.

    I borrow the term archipelagos with reference to multilocal governance from Duchêne-Lacroix (2014).

  4. 4.

    This was a joint project between the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand and the South African Local Government Association (SALGA). The initial research phase was sponsored by the office of the South African presidency through its pro-poor policy development programme. Phase two was supported through the Migrating Out of Poverty (Moop) research consortium based at the University of Sussex.

  5. 5.

    Further sub-indicators under each category can be found at http://r4d.dfid.gov.uk/pdf/outputs/MigratingOutOfPov/WP19_Blaser-Landau.pdf

  6. 6.

    See, for example, Juzwiak et al. (2014); Faustmann (2013); Maytree Foundation (2012).

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Landau, L.B. (2018). Conclusion: Archipelagos and Estuaries: Mobility, Local Authorities and the Governance of Multiple Elsewheres. In: Lacroix, T., Desille, A. (eds) International Migrations and Local Governance. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65996-1_12

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