Regional Focus: Africa

Events & opportunities:

Seminar: What Does ‘Social Cohesion’ Mean for Refugees and Hosts? Ethnographic Insights from Kakuma, Kenya, Oxford, 23 January 2020 [info]
- See also related blog post below.

*Seminar: Easing Pressure: Uganda and the Global Compact on Refugees, London, 10 February 2020 [info]

Seminar: Understanding the Socioeconomic Profile of Refugees in Kalobeyei, Kenya, Oxford, 13 February 2020 [info]

Job announcement: Senior Research Fellow (Postdoc), Advanced Survey Research on Migration in West Africa, PRIO [info]
- Apply by 15 March 2020.

Blog posts & media:

South Africa: Authorities Must Improve Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Freedom House, Jan. 2019) [text]
- See also related DW article.

UNHCR Seeks International Solidarity for Refugees and Hosts in Sudan (UNHCR, Jan. 2020) [text]
- See also related news story.

What Does ‘Social Cohesion’ Mean for Refugees and Hosts? A View from Kenya (COMPAS Blog, Jan. 2020 [text]

Young African Scholars Making a Difference to Improve the Quality of Life for the Forcibly Displaced (Development for Peace Blog, Dec. 2019) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"African Immigrant and Refugee Families’ Perceptions on Informational Support and Health Status: A Comparison of African Immigrants Living in South Africa and the United States," African Human Mobility Review, vol. 5, no. 3 (Sept./Dec. 2019) [open access]

Challenges in EU-African Migration Cooperation: West African Perspectives on Forced Return (MEDAM, Dec. 2019) [text]

*Debt, Danger and Despair: The Unseen Harm of Uganda’s Underfunded Refugee Response (Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 2019) [text]

Disappearing across the border: circular return and the social dynamics of secrecy and concealment between Uganda’s Nakivale Refugee Settlement and eastern DRC, Congo Research Brief, no. 3 (SSRC, 2019) [text]

Energy and Displacement in Eight Objects: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa (Moving Energy Initiative, Oct. 2019) [text]

*Final Evaluation Report: Preventing Conflict and Building Peace through Addressing the Drivers of Conflict and Instability Associated with Forced Displacement between Burundi and Tanzania (UN Peacebuilding Fund, Dec. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Gender Differences in Response to War-related Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Study among the Congolese Refugees in Uganda," BMC Psychiatry, 20:17 (Jan. 2020) [open access]

International Journal of Refugee Law, vol.  vol. 31, nos. 2-3, June/Oct. 2019 [contents]
- Special Issue on the OAU and Kampala Conventions.

Joint Evaluation of the Integrated Solutions Model in and around Kalobeyei, Turkana, Kenya (Govt. of Denmark & UNHCR, Dec. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Living on the Fringes of Life and Death: Somali Migrants, Risky Entrepreneurship and Xenophobia in Cape Town," African Human Mobility Review, vol. 5, no. 3 (Sept./Dec. 2019) [open access]

Mali’s Humanitarian Crisis: Overmilitarized and Overshadowed (Refugees International, Dec. 2019) [text]

UNHCR Country Portfolio Evaluation: Angola (UNHCR, Nov. 2019) [text]

Unsafe to Return, Dangerous to Stay: Eritrean Refugees Trapped Between Home and a Hard Place (Canadian Partnership for Reconstruction and Development, Oct. 2019) [text via SSRN]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Africa (11 Dec. 2019)

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