Regional Focus: Africa

Opportunity:

Course: MA in Migration and Displacement, Wits Univ. [info]
- Apply by 30 September 2020.

Blog posts & press:

"Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia Resist Camp Closure Amid COVID-19 Fears," The New Humanitarian, 17 Aug. 2020 [text]

"‘Swimming against the tide’: The fragility and resilience of residual Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees to COVID-19 disruption in Oru, Southwestern Nigeria," Routed Magazine, no. 10 (June 2020) [text]

Why So Many Sudanese are Prepared to Risk Their Lives to Reach the UK (ODI Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

African Human Mobility Review, vol. 6, no. 2 (May-Aug. 2020) [open access]
- Mix of six articles, including one on stateless migrant children in South Africa, one on voluntary repatriation, and one on root causes of migration in Africa.

"Burundian Refugees’ Journey Towards Citizenship: Pragmatics of Belonging in Ulyankulu Settlement, Tanzania," Migration and Development, vol. 9, no. 2 (2020) [ResearchGate]

"The Corona Virus and Migration Governance in South Africa: Business as Usual?," Africa Spectrum, vol. 55, no. 1 (2020) [open access]

*"Does the Right to Dignity Extend Equally to Refugees in South Africa?," African Human Rights Law Journal, vol. 20, no. 1 (2020) [open access]

Ethiopian Journal of Human Rights, vol. IV (Oct. 2019) [full-text]
- Theme of this issue is "Migrants’ Rights: Experiences from the Horn of Africa." Includes "Ethiopia’s Refugee Policy Overhaul: Implications on the out of Camp Policy Regime and Rights to Residence, Movement and Engagement in Gainful Employment."

Evaluation of the effects of UNHCR cash-based interventions on protection outcomes in Rwanda (UNHCR, July 2020) [text]

Impact of Refugees on Hosting Communities in Ethiopia: A Social Analysis (World Bank, July 2020) [text]

"Insurgency and Internal Displacement: Implications on Psychological Health and Agricultural Development in Nigeria," IFE PsychologIA, vol. 28, no. 1 (2020) [abstract]

Public Narratives and Attitudes Towards Refugees and Other Migrants: Kenya Country Profile (ODI, Aug. 2020) [text]

Public Narratives and Attitudes Towards Refugees and Other Migrants: Uganda Country Profile (ODI, Aug. 2020) [text]

"Unspoken Inequality: How COVID-19 Has Exacerbated Existing Vulnerabilities of Asylum-seekers, Refugees, and Undocumented Migrants in South Africa," International Journal for Equity in Health, 19:141 (Aug. 2020) [open access]

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Related post:
- Regional Focus: Africa (11 Aug. 2020)