Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility

"Since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, Wenzhou City of China's Zhejiang Province has witnessed large-scale institutional change and rapid economic development. This book studies the institutional change and economic development in Wenzhou since China's reform and opening-up. It...

This book examines social, economic and political issues in West, Eastern and Southern Africa in relation to borders, human mobility and regional integration. In the process, it highlights the innovative aspects of human agency on the African continent, and presents a range of empirical case...

Part I: Borders, Mobility And Integration In Africa: Concepts And Issues -- Chapter 1: Borders, human mobility, integration and development in Africa: An introduction -- Chapter 2: Imagining borders, borderlands, migration and integration in Africa: The search for connections and disjunctures --...