{"id":1121,"date":"2023-04-24T10:59:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T08:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderstories.de\/ies-frontier-of-the-future\/open-borders-between-national-and-neo-colonial-interests\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T13:21:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T11:21:48","slug":"open-borders-between-national-and-neo-colonial-interests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/borderstories.de\/en\/ies-frontier-of-the-future\/open-borders-between-national-and-neo-colonial-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Open” borders: Between national and neo-colonial interests"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Open\" borders: Between national and neo-colonial interests<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Station IES \/ Borders of the Future<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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In the future, the new border posts are supposed to lead to many advantages for African states, for example more transnational trade, increased tax revenues, more national security, but also strengthened regional cooperation between neighbouring countries. Nevertheless, the current development of the supposedly “open” borders must be viewed critically – especially with regard to neocolonial interests.<\/strong> The new border infrastructures, which cost billions, were largely co-financed by international donors from Europe, Asia and America. On the one hand, their economies benefit from better access to the continent’s raw materials and resources.<\/strong> On the other hand, Africa becomes even more of a sales market for external products,<\/strong> which in turn undermines the local economy. In parallel, forms of local border trade are criminalised as “smuggling”. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"Most of our leaders in Africa have now realised that borders are like prisons.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Customs officer at the Uganda-Kenya border, 2018<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\"... the Partition of Africa, far from being a closed matter, is an ongoing process the end of which is not in sight.\" <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A.I. Asiwaju<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
1985: \"Particioned Africans\"<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The Presidents of Kenya and Tanzania at the launch of the One Stop Border Post Namanga<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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Crowd with Kenyan, Tanzanian, and East African Community flags at the launch of Namanga border post<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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Symbols of regional cooperation at Namanga border post<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t<\/i>Prev<\/span><\/span>back<\/span>One Stop Border: Africa’s new border posts<\/span><\/span><\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\tforward<\/span>Who owns the border?<\/span><\/span><\/i>Next<\/span><\/span><\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOverview Station IES \/ <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the future, the new border posts are supposed to lead to many advantages for African states, for example more transnational trade, increased tax revenues, more national security, but also strengthened regional cooperation between neighbouring countries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1117,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1121","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderstories.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderstories.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderstories.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderstories.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderstories.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/borderstories.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/borderstories.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1121\/revisions\/2716"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderstories.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderstories.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}