Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

Can Migrants and Refugees be Regional Residents in the Great Lakes Region? (Africa at LSE Blog, June 2020) [text]

Covid-19 in South Africa: Whither Migrants? (African Arguments, June 2020) [text]

East Africa: People Seeking Safety are Trapped at Borders due to COVID-19 Measures (Amnesty International, June 2020) [text]
- See also related Guardian article.

A Look at Global Changes in Refugee Policies through the Lens of Dadaab (The Conversation, June 2020) [text]

A Refugee-led Response to COVID-19 in Uganda (Rethinking Refuge, June 2020) [text]

What Burundi Teaches Us about Political Crisis and Displacement (Africa at LSE Blog, June 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations: A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad, Policy Research Working Paper, no. WPS9222 (World Bank, April 2020) [text]
- See also related Dev4Peace blog post.

Exploring the Multiple Paradoxes and Challenges of Uganda’s Refugee Law, Policies and Practice, Presentation at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies, South Africa, 28 Oct. 2019 [text]

Formal Settlement vs. Emergency Camp: Different Refugee Residence Approaches in Uganda and South Sudan (Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa, March 2020) [text]

"International Criminal Law and Border Control: The Expressive Role of the Deportation and Extradition of Genocide Suspects to Rwanda," Leiden Journal of International Law, First View, 2 June 2020 [free full-text]

Rapid Social Analysis: COVID-19 and Vulnerable Migrants Across Africa, Working Paper, no. 149975 (World Bank, June 2020) [text]

"Socio-environmental Conflicts Between the Refugee Populations and Their Host Communities: The Case of Eritrean Refugees in North Western Tigray, Ethiopia," Environmental & Socio-economic Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (June 2020) [open access]

"Using an Adaptive Approach to Making Gatekeepers Accountable to Internally Displaced Persons in Mogadishu, Somalia," Development in Practice, Latest Articles, 23 May 2020 [ReliefWeb]

"A View from Inside the Kitchen of the Kampala Convention: The Modernisation of the International Legal Regime for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons," International and Comparative Law Quarterly (Forthcoming) [postprint]

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (13 June 2020)
- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (13 June 2020)