Darshan Vigneswaran
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199669394
- eISBN:
- 9780191748752
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199669394.003.0007
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology, Human Rights and Immigration
The relative power imbalances between, on the one hand, powerful states and international organizations, and, on the other, African policy makers, has meant that international organizations seeking ...
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The relative power imbalances between, on the one hand, powerful states and international organizations, and, on the other, African policy makers, has meant that international organizations seeking to impose international norms, treaties, and institutions concerning human trafficking, drugs, and intellectual property have been able to influence significantly the way domestic or local actors in Africa respond to issues like informal migration and human trafficking. This chapter examines the specific mechanisms through which such similar power imbalances frame local policing strategy. It suggests that the tendency of South African officials to privilege mobility narratives over other ways of scripting a potential crime may be partly attributed to their highly unique historical context: as inheritors of the apartheid tradition of policing separateness.Less
The relative power imbalances between, on the one hand, powerful states and international organizations, and, on the other, African policy makers, has meant that international organizations seeking to impose international norms, treaties, and institutions concerning human trafficking, drugs, and intellectual property have been able to influence significantly the way domestic or local actors in Africa respond to issues like informal migration and human trafficking. This chapter examines the specific mechanisms through which such similar power imbalances frame local policing strategy. It suggests that the tendency of South African officials to privilege mobility narratives over other ways of scripting a potential crime may be partly attributed to their highly unique historical context: as inheritors of the apartheid tradition of policing separateness.
