Paper short abstract:

In this paper, we intend to examine the emerging large-scale infrastructure project-Lamu Port, looking at how it changes labor relations in the coastal region and affects the already marginalized labor in Kenya. We intend to apply the concept of social order in relation to organized violence.

Paper long abstract:

In this paper, we intend to examine the emerging large-scale infrastructure project-Lamu Port, looking at how it changes labor relations in the coastal region and affects the already marginalized labor in Kenya. The port is expected to be a tourism hub and economic zone, creating millions of jobs and addressing marginalization in the Coastal region. We intend to apply the concept of social order in relation to organized violence, looking at how global capitalists such as Chinese conglomerates shape labor in the African frontier spaces and how such capitalists affect land use and labor laws. Through interviews from key informants-government representatives, and civil society, including a questionnaire survey from the residents in Lamu. We are interested in investigating how the locals are being infrastructured in this ongoing mega-development project. Our results intend to show a major facelift of infrastructuring in the coastal region, pointing out how such infrastructuring produces and reproduces the history and future of labor in Lamu county, Kenya.