30 October 2020

Regional Focus: Africa

Opportunity:

CFP: Policy Workshop on Protection Challenges on the Central & Western Mediterranean Route, 15-17 February 2021 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 20 November 2020; a virtual Q&A session on the CFP will be held on 9 November 2020.

Blog posts & press:

Focus on migrant returns threatens AU–EU negotiations (ISS Today, Oct. 2020) [text]

Refugee debates have an African history problem (Africa is a Country, Oct. 2020) [text]

The Sahel: A Protection Crisis aggravated by the COVID-19 Pandemic (IDMC Blog, Oct. 2020) [text]

UNHCR Encouraged by Progress Towards Solutions for Forcibly Displaced People from Sudan and South Sudan (UNHCR, Oct. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Africa Migration Report: Challenging the Narrative
(African Union & IOM, Oct. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- "African migration in the 21st Century takes place mainly by land, not by sea. African migrants’ destinations are overwhelmingly not to Europe or North America, but to each other’s countries. Those are among the historic findings of the study, Africa Migration Report: Challenging the Narrative... . The work is the first continent-specific report on migration and is being released during a virtual meeting bringing together policymakers, experts on migration and UN partner agencies. This inaugural edition attempts to unpack commonly held misperceptions about migration in the continent."

African Studies Review, vol. 63, no. 3 (Sept. 2020) [free full-text]
- Includes a forum on "African Refugee History," with six articles. All are currently free-to-read; one is open access. See also the related Africa is a Country blog post referenced above.

Cash transfer models and debt in the Kalobeyei settlement, RSC Research in Brief, no. 15 (Refugee Studies Centre, Sept. 2020) [text]

Conflict Trends in Africa, 1989–2019 (PRIO, Oct. 2020) [text]

Consultations with IDPs and Host Community: South Sudan (IOM et al., Sept. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- This "interagency collaboration is a contribution to the Consultation with Affected Communities process initiated by the UN Secretary General's High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement."

Ethiopian migrants returning from Yemen to Djibouti: a qualitative study (IOM, Oct. 2020) [text]
- See also French version.

Protection risks along the journey to Khartoum, MMC North Africa 4Mi Snapshot (Mixed Migration Centre, Sept. 2020) [text]

The State of African Regional Human Rights Bodies and Mechanisms 2019-2020 (Amnesty International, Oct. 2020) [text]

When the dust settles: Economic and governance repercussions of migration policies in Niger’s north (Clingendael, Oct. 2020) [text]

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