22 September 2021

Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

#BookClub: How do refugees cope with the difficulties of life in camps? (Democracy in Africa, Sept. 2021) [text]

Ethiopia: Eritrean Refugees Targeted in Tigray (Human Rights Watch, Sept. 2021) [text]
- See also related statement.

Farmers displaced by conflict in north central Nigeria share their coping strategies (The Conversation, Aug. 2021) [text]

Refugees in Cameroon help build ‘Great Green Wall’ to combat desertification (UNHCR, Sept. 2021) [text]

Why African Governments are Accepting Afghan Refugees (Lawfare Blog, Sept. 2021) [text]

Reports: 

Evaluation of the Telling the Real Story Project 2.0, ES/2021/02 (UNHCR, April 2021) [access]
- Note: "Populations reached during TRS 2.0 include Somalilanders, and Nigerians living in their home countries and Somalis and Eritreans housed in camps in Ethiopia or Sudan." Follow link for report and management response.

"I want my land. You have to go." Understanding the eviction phenomenon in Baidoa (Norwegian Refugee Council, Sept. 2021) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Follow link for full report, summary and Baidoa case study.

Journal articles:

"Borders as penal transplants: Control of territory, mobility and illegality in West Africa," Theoretical Criminology, vol. 25, no. 3 (2021) [free full-text]
- See also related blog post.

Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines (Forthcoming) [contents]
- Follow link & scroll down to view articles due to be published in a special issue on "African Refuge." Read the introduction for more information. References to the articles that are freely available are included below.

"Déplacés et réfugiés au Cameroun: profils, itinéraires et expériences à partir des crises nigériane et centrafricaine," Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines, Latest Articles, 7 Sept. 2021 [open access]

"Delayed Return: Consolidation of the Zimbabwean Diaspora and Transnationalism," REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, vol. 29, no. 62 (2021) [open access]

"Refugee exchanges between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, and their socio-economic relevance, from the First World War to immediate post-independence," Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines, Latest Articles, 8 Sept. 2021 [free full-text]

"Reparations and the politics of waiting in Kenya," Journal of Eastern African Studies, vol. 15, no. 3 (2021) [open access]

"Use of plant resources by refugees from Minawao and their impact on the Sahelian savannah of Cameroon," Environmental Challenges, vol. 5 (Dec. 2021) [open access]

"Vie d’errance et crise identitaire des immigrés tchadiens musulmans en Centrafrique: le cas des retournés de Gaoui, au Tchad, de 2012 à 2019," Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines, Latest Articles, 7 Sept. 2021 [open access]

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