Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

Concerned over impact of mpox on refugees and displaced in Africa, UNHCR calls for inclusion and international solidarity (UNHCR, Aug. 2024) [text]

- See also related mpox explainer.

Conflicts Causing Record Level of Forced Displacement in Africa (Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Sept. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Ethiopia’s New Regulation to Enhance its Asylum Agency: A Positive Step or Missed Opportunity? (RLI Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

Kenya champions the free movement of people in east Africa, but it’s failing immigrants and refugees at home (The Conversation, Aug. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Analysing group refugee recognition in African states’ law and practice, Working paper, no. 11 (RefMig Project, 2023) [text]

If bullets miss, hunger won't - Beyond the Numbers: Hunger and Conflict in Sudan (DRC, Mercy Corps & NRC, Sept. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Refugee Recognition Regime Country Profile: Niger, Working paper, no. 8 (RefMig Project, 2023) [Eng. text] [Fr. text]

Refugee Recognition Regime Country Profile: Uganda, Working paper, no. 10 (RefMig Project, 2023) [text] 

Journal articles:

"The coloniality of power in Uganda's Nakivale Refugee Settlement: struggling for humanitarian authority amidst the 2018 corruption scandal," Disasters, vol. 48, no. 4 (Oct. 2024) [ResearchGate]

"Externalization Beyond 'Immigration Risk'? UK Borderwork Creep in Africa and its Cumulative Rippling Effects," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 5 Sept 2024 [open access]

"An investigation into the underlying causes of socio-economic challenges faced by Congolese refugees in Nairobi," African Journal of Social Issues, vol. 7, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Middle-class youth fleeing Nigeria: rethinking African survival migration through the Japa phenomenon," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 16 (2024) [open access]

"Refugee Protection in Kenya," Journal of Policy and Development Studies, vol. 16, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

"Trauma and resistance in Niger's emergency transit mechanism: A life narrative study," SSM - Mental Health, vol. 5 (June 2024) [open access]

- See also related IJMHSC article.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (26 Aug. 2024)