Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Workshop: In the shoes of a Congolese refugee, Leiden, Netherlands, 14 March 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Cameroonian refugees help bust COVID-19 myths in Nigeria (UNHCR, Feb. 2022) [text]

Names are Problems: For Congolese Refugees, for the Humanitarian System, and for Anthropological Writing (American Ethnological Society, Dec. 2021) [text]

Rapid phone surveys in Kenya show disproportionately negative impact on refugees (UNHCR Blog, March 2022) [text]

Split Across Borders: Displacement patterns in Juba, South Sudan (REF Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

"The Energy Potential of Harvested Wood Fuel by Refugees in Northern Uganda," Scientific World Journal, vol. 2022, article ID 1569960 (Feb. 2022) [open access]

"EU-Driven Border Control in Niger: From Migrants to Gold, Drugs, and Rare Animals," Cultural Anthropology, vol. 37, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Feeling the refugee camp: Affectual research, bodies, and suspicion," Area, Early View, 28 May 2021 [open access]

- Draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya.

"Prevention of COVID-19 in Internally Displaced Persons Camps in War-Torn North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Mixed-Methods Study," Global Health: Science and Practice, vol. 8, no. 4 (Dec. 2020) [open access]

"Social capital undergirds coping strategies: evidence from two informal settlements in Nairobi," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7:7 (Feb. 2022) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (4 Feb. 2022)