12 April 2021

Regional Focus: Africa

Opportunity:

Call for proposals: Establishing research chairs on forced displacement in the Middle East and East Africa [info]
- This call is now open. More information about it will be provided during an online session held on 13 April 2021

Blog posts & press:

Busting South Africa’s xenophobic myths starts at grassroots (ISS Today, April 2021) [text]

"Humanitarian catastrophe in northern Mozambique ‘beyond epic proportions’," UN News, 8 April 2021 [text]

UNHCR Statement on the Government of Kenya’s intention to close Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps (March 2021) [text]
- Note: Kenya's High Court has now put a 30-day pause on any closures. See also related African Arguments blog post, UNHCR press release, and VOA news article.

Reports:

*Accountability to Affected Populations in Displacement Contexts and During the Covid-19 Pandemic (RECAP Project, April 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Uganda. 

Addressing the marginalisation of refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa, HSRC Policy Brief (Human Sciences Research Council, Feb. 2021) [text]

Asylum Seekers’ Access to Protection: Developments in South Africa, Advocates' Migration Brief, no. 2 (Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa, March 2021) [text]
- See also related blog post/infographic.

Coercion and control: how information and individuality intersect for South Sudanese refugees in Uganda, SLRC Working Paper, no. 94 (Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Conflict-induced migration and local development: The socio-economic dynamics of a refugee-hosting area in Uganda, ASC-TUFS Working Papers, vol. 1 (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2021) [text]

Families of Missing Migrants: Their Search for Answers, the Impacts of Loss and Recommendations for Improved Support - Country report: Ethiopia (IOM, 2021) [text]

*"See Migration Like Water": An Analysis of IOM Flow Monitoring Survey Data on Migration Flows in West and Central Africa (IOM & Harvard Univ., April 2021) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"EU External Migration Management Policies in West Africa: How Migration Policies and Practices
in Nigeria Are Changing," Chapter 23 in The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in Light of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees: International Experiences on Containment and Mobility and their Impacts on Trust and Rights (European Univ. Institute, March 2021) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 262.

Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 33, no. 4 (Dec. 2020) [access]
- Special issue on "The Politics of Return: Understanding Trajectories of Displacement and the Complex Dynamics of ‘Return’ in Central Africa." Note that ALL 10 articles are open access!

"Migration Management: The Antithesis of Refugee Protection – The Case of South Africa," Chapter 9 in The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in Light of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees: International Experiences on Containment and Mobility and their Impacts on Trust and Rights (European Univ. Institute, March 2021) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 101.

"The New Pact’s Focus on Migrant Returns Threatens Africa-EU Partnership," Chapter 19 in The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in Light of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees: International Experiences on Containment and Mobility and their Impacts on Trust and Rights (European Univ. Institute, March 2021) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 219.

"Will refugees also get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Africa?," Public Health in Practice, vol. 2 (Nov. 2021) [open access]

Multimedia:

Emerging BHER Scholars: Establishing a Refugee Research Agenda in Dadaab, 31 March 2021 [access]

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