This book provides a sophisticated analysis of cross-border challenges and problems in the southern African region. It advances explanations that transcend the state-centric narrative that has nationalised cross border security.

Inocent Moyo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the Deputy Dean of Research, Innovation, and Internationalisation, in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering at the University of Zululand, South Africa. He researches borders, migration, and the political economy of the informal economy in the Southern African region.

Chapter 1: The cross-border security conundrum in the Southern African region

Chapter 2: On security and cross-border security

Chapter 3: Borders, orders, and postcolonial governmentality

Chapter 4: Border management, neopatrimonialism, and cross-border security

Chapter 5: The poverty of the cross-border illegalities narrative

Chapter 6: Covid-19 border closures and cross-border security

Chapter 7: Transcending statolatry