Publications


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Publications


Data:

Selected data from my dissertation project is published in my dataverse: "Capital in the Borderlands" (click)

Journal articles (linked):

2023 (Due for publication in early 2023 - with Namhla Matshanda) Political identity as temporal collapse: Ethiopian federalism and contested Ogaden histories. African Affairs.

2022 Respatializing federalism in the Horn’s borderlands: from contraband control to transnational governmentality. Journal of Borderlands Studies.

2021 (with Kader Mohamoud and Jemal Yusuf Mahamed) Geopolitical boundaries and urban borderlands in an Ethiopian frontier city. Urban Geography.

2020 Border crimes, extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the racialization of sovereignty in the Ethiopia-British Somaliland borderlands during the 1920s. Africa.

2020 Capital of the imperial borderlands: urbanism, markets, and power on the Ethiopia-British Somaliland boundary, ca. 1890-1935. Journal of Eastern African Studies.

2018 Ethnicity and nationality among Ethiopians in Canada: a consideration of overlapping and divergent identities in migration statistics. Comparative Migration Studies 6/6.

2017    Visible and invisible diasporas: Ethiopian Somalis in the diaspora scene. Bildhaan: an International Journal of Somali Studies, 17: 1-31.

2017    Scaling statelessness: absent, present, former and liminal states of Somali experience in South Africa. Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 40(1): 86-103.

2016    Risky business and geographies of refugee capitalism in the Somali migrant economy of Gauteng, South Africa. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(1): 120-135.

2015    (with Richard Grant) Enclaves on edge: strategy and tactics in immigrant business spaces of Johannesburg. Urban Forum 26(3): 243-262.

2015    (with Richard Grant) City on edge: immigrant businesses and the right to urban space in inner-city Johannesburg. Urban Geography 36(2): 181-200.

2013    (with Richard Grant) The Development Complex, rural economy and urban-spatial and economic development in Juba, South Sudan. Local Economy 28(2): 218-230.

 

 

Full texts:

Capital of the imperial borderlands: urbanism, markets, and power on the Ethiopia-British Somaliland boundary, ca. 1890-1935.

Ethnicity and nationality among Ethiopians in Canada

Visible and invisible diasporas: Ethiopian Somalis in the diaspora scene. Bildhaan, 2017.

Risky business and geographies of refugee capitalism in the Somali migrant economy of Gauteng, South Africa. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2016.