12 August 2021

Regional Focus: Africa

Opportunities:

Survey: Assessing Public Awareness on the existence of policy, law data and measures on internal displacement in Africa [info]
- No deadline indicated.

Job announcement: Research Officer, LERRN, Carleton Univ. [info]
- Candidate will provide support to the project, "Knowledge Ecosystems on Forced Displacement in East Africa and the Middle East." Apply by 18 August 2021.

Call for applications: RSC-BIEA Fellowship in Refugee Studies [info]
- New 12-month fellowship for 12 aspiring researchers with a displacement background and mainly based in East Africa. Submit applications by 30 August 2021. Note: Learn more via information sessions held on 12, 17 & 23 August 2021.

Report launch: Missing persons: high cost of conflict and violence in Africa, 30 August 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

12,000 indigenous Zimbabweans could be forced from their land (African Arguments, Aug. 2021) [text]

COVID-19 socioeconomic impact worsens for refugees in Uganda (UNHCR Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]

Excluding migrants undermines the success of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts (The Conversation, July 2021) [text]

New centre at UCT to offer refugee law training (UCT News, Aug. 2021) [text]

UNHCR regains access to Tigray refugee camps, calls for emergency funds to scale up assistance (UNHCR, Aug. 2021) [text]

New open access book:

Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning: The Built Environment as an Added Educator in East African Refugee Camps (UCL Press, Aug. 2021) [info]
- Note: The complete text will be accessible as of 16 Aug. 2021.

Reports & journal articles:

Cornered by Conflict: Eritrean Refugees in Northern Ethiopia Need Resettlement in a Safe Third Country (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Effect of an Economic Transfer Program on Mental Health of Displaced Persons and Host Populations in Democratic Republic of Congo: A Randomised Controlled Trial (Innovations for Poverty Action, Oct. 2020) [text]
- See also video recording of related webinar.

"Ethical and Practical Reflections of Resident Anthropologists in Conflict Zones: Experiences from the Tokwe Mukosi Dam Project and Displacement at Chingwizi, Zimbabwe," The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man, vol. 21, no. 1 (2021) [free full-text]

“Millions of People Continue to be Forcibly Displaced in Africa,” Cairo Review, no. 42 (Summer 2021) [full-text]

Note on the identification of hard-to-reach Malian refugees in Mauritania (UNHCR, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

UNHCR Position on Returns to Burkina Faso (UNHCR, July 2021) [text]

"Who is watching? Refugee protection during a pandemic - responses from Uganda and South Africa," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:37 (Aug. 2021) [open access]

Resource:

Global Engagement Network on Internal Displacement in Africa (GENIDA) [access]
- "The GENIDA Project is the first of its kind in Africa. It is a network geared towards the protection of internally displaced persons in Africa. GENIDA seeks to advance sustainable solutions while also bridging the gap between research and policy responses. GENIDA provides a useful platform for critical engagement on solutions to the issue of internal displacement, an issue that affects more than 12 million people in Africa." More info is provided in this related blog post.

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