Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System

Darshan Vigneswaran is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and a Senior Researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society, WITS University, South Africa. He has held fellowships at Oxford University, UK and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany. He is the co-editor of Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa (2012) and currently studies migration control, state development and policing in India and South Africa.

Preface: The Queue Jumping Analogy 1. Introduction 2. Migration and Mental Maps 3. Centralization in the Italian City-State 4. Expansion of the British Empire 5. Integrating Europe 6. Projecting Territorial Change Epilogue: Theory From the South