Nshimbi, Christopher

Christopher
Nshimbi

Director & Research Fellow: Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn), University of Pretoria. Research interests: migration, regional integration, borders, the informal economy, water governance. Teaching: Regional Integration; African & Regional Politics; States & Governance in Africa; Political Dynamics. Sits in on technical working groups on labor & migration, the integrated water sector, social protection & well-being

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • University of Pretoria

    University, Pretoria, South Africa
    Director & Research Fellow

  • University of Pretoria

    University, Pretoria, South Africa
    Director & Research Fellow

Research

Reimaging borders and migration management in Africa

Authors Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Jussi P. Laine
Year 2021
Book Title Intra-Africa Migrations
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1 Book Chapter

Intra-Africa migrations

Authors Inocent Moyo, Jussi P. Laine, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2021
Book Title Intra-Africa Migrations
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2 Book Chapter

Human mobility in the Southern African Development Community region

Authors Mandisa Sunshine Melanie Makhathini, Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2021
Book Title Intra-Africa Migrations
3 Book Chapter

Migration and Transformation: Africa-Europe Migration Conundrums in a Changing Global Order

Authors Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Jussi P. Laine
Year 2020
Book Title Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries
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4 Book Chapter

Beyond the Present: Migration Governance for Regions and Inclusive Development

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo, Jussi P. Laine
Year 2020
Book Title Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries
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5 Book Chapter

Life in the Fringes: Informality, African Migrants’ Perception of the Border and Attitudes Towards Migrating to Europe

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2020
Book Title Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries
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6 Book Chapter

Borders, Mobility and Integration in Africa Revisited: Towards a New Understanding of African Realities

Authors Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2020
Book Title Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
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7 Book Chapter

Bordered Environment: Redefining Transboundary Water Resources into Environmentally Sound Governance Frameworks in Southern Africa

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2020
Book Title Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
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8 Book Chapter

Borders, Human Mobility, Integration and Development in Africa: An Introduction

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo
Year 2020
Book Title Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
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9 Book Chapter

The Construction of African Immigrants in Contemporary South Africa and Social Cohesion: Reflections on the Role of the Media

Authors Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2020
Book Title Pan Africanism, Regional Integration and Development in Africa
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10 Book Chapter

Of Borders and Fortresses: Attitudes Towards Immigrants from the SADC Region in South Africa as a Critical Factor in the Integration of Southern Africa

Authors Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Borderlands Studies
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11 Journal Article

The Human Side of Regions: Informal Cross-border Traders in the Zambia–Malawi–Mozambique Growth Triangle and Prospects for Integrating Southern Africa

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Borderlands Studies
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12 Journal Article

Closing remarks

Authors Jussi P. Laine, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo
Year 2020
Book Title Expanding Boundaries
13 Book Chapter

Implications of the micro processes of encounter and contest in borders

Authors Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Jussi P. Laine
Year 2020
Book Title Borders, Sociocultural Encounters and Contestations
14 Book Chapter

Resilience nodes

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2020
Book Title Borders, Sociocultural Encounters and Contestations
15 Book Chapter

Sociocultural encounters in geography historicised

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo
Year 2020
Book Title Borders, Sociocultural Encounters and Contestations
16 Book Chapter

Borders as sites of encounter and contestation

Authors Jussi P. Laine, Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2020
Book Title Borders, Sociocultural Encounters and Contestations
17 Book Chapter

Introduction

Authors Jussi P. Laine, Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2020
Book Title Expanding Boundaries
20 Book Chapter

Border Practices at Beitbridge Border and Johannesburg Inner City: Implications for the SADC Regional Integration Project

Authors Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Asian and African Studies
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21 Journal Article

Innovating Policy and Systems of Innovation for Regional Integration

Authors Christopher C. Nshimbi
Year 2019
Book Title Innovation, Regional Integration, and Development in Africa
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22 Book Chapter

Life in the Fringes: Economic and Sociocultural Practices in the Zambia–Malawi–Mozambique Borderlands in Comparative Perspective

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Borderlands Studies
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23 Journal Article

Taking sustainable development to the limits

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2019
Book Title African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration
24 Book Chapter

Borders, war and conflict in Africa

Authors Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2019
Book Title African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration
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25 Book Chapter

Pan-African Aspirations Drive a New Free Trade Pact

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2019
Journal Name Current History
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26 Journal Article

SDGs and decentralizing water management for transformation: Normative policy coherence for water security in SADC river basin organizations

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2019
Journal Name Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C
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28 Journal Article

11 Innovations for “silencing the guns” and redefining African borders as promoters of peace, wellbeing, regional and continental integration

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo
Year 2019
Book Title African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration
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29 Book Chapter

Informal Immigrant Traders in Johannesburg: The Scorned Cornerstone in the Southern African Development Community Integration Project

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo
Year 2018
Book Title Africa Now!
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30 Book Chapter

Rethinking Regional Integration for Development and Eradication of Poverty in Africa: The Missing Link

Authors Christopher C. Nshimbi
Year 2018
Book Title The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development
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31 Book Chapter

Between Neoliberal Orthodoxy and Securitisation: Prospects and Challenges for a Borderless Southern African Community

Authors Christopher C. Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo, Trynos Gumbo
Year 2018
Book Title Crisis, Identity and Migration in Post-Colonial Southern Africa
32 Book Chapter

Migration, Logics of Inclusion and Exclusion and Xenophobia: The Case of African Migrants in Post-apartheid South Africa

Authors Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Trynos Gumbo
Year 2018
Book Title Crisis, Identity and Migration in Post-Colonial Southern Africa
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33 Book Chapter

The Tenacity and Lasting Reality of Cross-Border Movements and Trade in the SADC Region

Authors Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2017
Book Title Migration, Cross-Border Trade and Development in Africa
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34 Book Chapter

Mozambican Labour Migrations, Remittances and Development: Evidence, Practices and Implications for Policy

Authors Sara Mercandalli, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo
Year 2017
Book Title Migration, Cross-Border Trade and Development in Africa
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35 Book Chapter

History, Trends and Dynamics of Cross-Border Movements and Trade in the SADC Region

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo
Year 2017
Book Title Migration, Cross-Border Trade and Development in Africa
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36 Book Chapter

Visible and invisible bordering practices

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Inocent Moyo
Year 2016
Journal Name World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development
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38 Journal Article

Networks of Cross-border Non-State Actors: The Role of Social Capital in Regional Integration

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2015
Journal Name Journal of Borderlands Studies
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39 Journal Article

The Will to Integrate: South Africa's Responses to Regional Migration from the SADC Region

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Lorenzo Fioramonti
Year 2014
Journal Name African Development Review
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40 Journal Article

Rational Actors, Passive and Helpless Victims, Neither, Both: EU Borders and the Drive to Migrate in the Horn of Africa

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2021
Journal Name Social Inclusion
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41 Journal Article

Intra-Africa Migrations

Year 2021
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42 Journal Article

Expanding Boundaries

Year 2020
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43 Journal Article

Borders, Sociocultural Encounters and Contestations

Year 2020
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44 Journal Article

African Union and European Union Politics: The Veiled Account of Longstanding Interregional Relations

Authors Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Year 2020
Journal Name Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
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45 Journal Article

Globalization and the Threat of Marginalization

Authors Chris Changwe Nshimbi
Journal Name SSRN Electronic Journal
47 Journal Article

A Region Without Borders? Policy Frameworks for Regional Labour Migration Towards South Africa

Authors Chris Changwe Nshimbi, Lorenzo Fioramonti
Journal Name SSRN Electronic Journal
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48 Journal Article

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