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Kuiper, Gerda ORCID: 0000-0002-9663-4838 and Greiner, Clemens ORCID: 0000-0002-6771-373X (2021). Export horticulture and labour migration in Kenya: Translocality and transiency in a secondary town. Geoforum, 122. S. 1 - 11. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 1872-9398

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Abstract

Based on a study of globalized export horticulture at Lake Naivasha, Kenya, this paper explores urban development at the intersections of foreign capital investments and translocal labour mobility. We argue that patterns of translocality largely track the specific requirements and temporalities of the cut flower and vegetable industries, lending an ephemeral and provisional character to the town of Naivasha and the urban sprawl encompassing it. Drawing on empirical research in Naivasha and literature on urbanization in contexts of export agriculture, we contribute to scholarly debates on the transiency of urban spaces in the Global South by focusing on secondary towns, or those small- and medium-sized towns that rapidly emerge around foreign investment sites. Our findings suggest that urban transiency, understood as a provisional form of urbanism, is especially pronounced in such secondary towns compared to more consolidated urban areas.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Kuiper, Gerda UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-9663-4838 UNSPECIFIED Greiner, Clemens UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6771-373X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-566061
DOI:	10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.03.013
Journal or Publication Title:	Geoforum
Volume:	122
Page Range:	S. 1 - 11
Date:	2021
Publisher:	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Place of Publication:	OXFORD
ISSN:	1872-9398
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS; MIGRANTS; MOBILITY; URBANIZATION; STRATIFICATION; FRONTIERS; NETWORKS; VIOLENCE; CENTERS; IMPACT Multiple languages Geography Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56606