21 July 2022

Regional Focus: Africa

Opportunity:

CFP: De-centring and Contesting Externalisation in West Africa and Beyond, London/Online, 19 September 2022 AND/OR Movements: Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies [info]
- Submit abstract by 25 July 2022.

Blog posts & press:

Missing Migrants, Missing Solutions? Reviewing GCM objective 8 in West Africa (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2022) [text]

*Occult threats to safety and protection in a Ugandan refugee settlement (Africa at LSE Blog, July 2022) [text]

Record 36 Million Africans Forcibly Displaced (Africa Center for Strategic Studies, July 2022) [text]

New open access book:

Migration in West Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader (Springer, July 2022) [open access]
- "This open access Regional Reader examines the dynamics and impacts of international migration within and from West Africa. The book presents key theoretical perspectives and empirical findings on historical trends, geographical patterns, drivers and socio-economic impacts of both voluntary and involuntary migration in West Africa, a region that is characterised by high level of mixed migration flows."

Reports & journal articles:

Adolescent lives in Ethiopia: what are we learning from longitudinal evidence? (GAGE consortium, March 2022) [text]

A Commentary on the UK Home Office Country Policy and Information Note: Rwanda, asylum system, and the related Country Policy and Information Note: Rwanda, assessment (Asylos, July 2022) [access]

Evaluation of UNHCR’S Response to the 2019/20 Level 3 IDP Emergency in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ES/2022/03 (UNHCR, Feb. 2022; posted July 2022) [text]

The legacies of armed conflict: insights from stayees and returning forced migrants, WIDER Working Paper, no. 17 (United Nations University, 2022) [text]
- Focuses on Burundi.

Migration Governance and Migration Diplomacy in Uganda: An Agenda for a Migrant-centred Approach (Migration Policy Centre, July 2022) [text]

*"Resistant Resilience: Agency and Resilience Among Refugees Resisting Humanitarian Corruption in Uganda," Civil Wars, Latest Articles, 5 July 2022 [open access]
- See also related blog post.

Urban Refugees and IDPs in Secondary Cities (Cities Alliance, 2022) [access]
- "[P]rovides case studies of good practices from cities in Uganda (Arua), Ethiopia (Adama) and Kenya (Kakuma and Lodwar Town), as well as recommendations based on analysis of their experiences." Follow link for report, summary and brief.

Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies, vol. 5, nos. 1&2 (2022) [open access]
- Special issue on "Migration and (In)Equality in the Global South: Intersections, Contestations, and Possibilities." Includes five articles that focus on countries in Africa, including Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, and South Africa. 

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