COVID-19 and (Im)mobilities in West Africa
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Abstract
- Abstract
- en This study examines recent developments of mobility patterns in West Africa within the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A broad understanding of mobilities is applied to account for mobilities of people, goods and capital likewise. The aim is to track changes in mobility patterns caused by the pandemic and by institutional responses to the latter. The study may herein serve to encourage more in depth and comprehensive studies of the new (im)mobilities and the regimes that shape them. Embedding the subject of mobility changes into the political-economic framework of the networks of global capitalism and taking a perspective on the formative regimes, we develop first suppositions on how to apply the concept of (im)mobility regimes to assess the newly manifested (im)mobilisations. To shed light on the bigger picture of recent developments in Western Africa, this study tackles a wide range of mobility-related topics. At first, the epidemiological situation as well as the local testing regimes are analysed in order to assess the extent to which the pandemic is scientifically captured in Western Africa in contrast to other regions. By then providing a systematic outline of the lockdown policies of the individual ECOWAS member states, a first approach to the formative regimes can be given. The manifest new (im)mobilities of people are then evaluated with a focus on public transport, migratory movements and public air travel. Thereafter, the (im)mobilities of goods are discussed with a special focus on maritime freight mobilities. Finally, (im)mobilities of capital are dealt with in order to address changes and constants in the context of COVID-19, for example in the realm of remittances. Overall, this provides a first basis for a multi-dimensional understanding of the emerging phenomena in the ECOWAS region.
Subjects
- Keywords
- Mobility
- Immobility
- (im)mobility regimes
- West Africa
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- Pandemic
- Goods
- Capital flows
- Migration
- Refugees
- Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports
- Mobility pattern
- Lockdown
- Air traffic
- Aviation
- Border
- Travel
- PHSM
- ECOWAS
- Shipping
- Container
- Freight
- Commodities
- FDI
- Remittances
- Ratings
- Trade
- Testing
- Infections
- Public Transport
- Ports
- Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple
- African Studies
People & roles
- list of editors
- Maurus, Sabrina
- Place of publication
- Bayreuth
Origins & context
- Title
- COVID-19 and (Im)mobilities in West Africa
- Publication type
- Working paper
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Institute of African Studies
- Series
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Africa Multiple connects
Value Annotations
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- volume
- 3
- Date
- March 24, 2021
- Number in series
- 26
- pages
- XIV, 153
- Number of pages
- 153
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Full text
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- 26 University of Bayreuth African Studies WORKING PAPERS COVID-19 and (Im)mobilities in West Africa Andras Breuer, Martin Doevenspeck, Kamal Donko and Serge Ouedraogo 26 University of Bayreuth African Studies WORKING PAPERS COVID-19 and (Im)mobilities in West Africa Andras Breuer, Martin Doevenspeck, Kamal Donko and Serge Ouedraogo, 2021 ii University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers 26 Africa Multiple connects 3 Contents Institute of African Studies ii Africa Multiple connects iii About the Authors and Acknowledgements iv List of Figures and Tables v List of Abbreviations viii Preface x COVID-19 and (Im)mobilities in West Africa Introduction 1 Analytic Framework 2 New pandemic-related (Im)mobility Regimes in the ECOWAS Region? 4 SARS-CoV-2: Recent Infection Trends 5 4.1 Occurrence of infections: ECOWAS Region 5 4.1.1 Pandemic Dynamics in West Africa 6 4.1.2 Contextualisation 8 4.1.3 Occurrences of Infections: Individual Countries 11 4.1.4 Testing regimes 14 4.1.5 Conclusions on the status quo 20 (Im)mobilities of people 21 5.1 Specificities of the National Lockdowns and Mobility Regimes 21 5.1.1 Overall Response Stringency 31 5.1.2 Risk of Openness 34 5.1.3 Stringency vs. Risk: Adaption of Responses to Infections 36 5.2 Public Transport Regimes 40 5.3 Individual Immobilisation and Residential Dynamics 46 5.3.1 Mobility Data Limitations 51 COVID-19 and (Im)mobilities in West Africa iii 5.4 Border Regimes 52 5.4.1 Cross-Broder Migration 59 5.5 Aviation 65 5.6 Initial Outline: Pandemic (Im)mobility Regimes and People 69 (Im)mobilities of goods 72 6.1 Structural Impacts of restricted Cross-Border Mobility 72 6.2 Production of Goods 74 6.3 Trade 76 6.4 Maritime Freight Mobility 81 6.4.1 Situating conditions in Africa in global and regional contexts 81 6.4.2… Read the full text about 58,616 words
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