30 May 2025

Regional Focus: Africa

Opportunities:

Seminar: What does Trump’s refugee suspension mean for Africa?, Online, 4 June 2025 [info]

Call for applications: AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme, Oxford Univ. [info]
- "Opportunity for African researchers holding an advanced degree to pursue independent academic research on forced migration." Application deadline is 6 June 2025.

Short pieces:

"Dadaab Voices: What aid cuts mean for Kenya’s refugees," The New Humanitarian, 23 May 2025 [text]
- See also related UN News story.

Mauritania: Mass Arrests and Deportations as EU Continues Efforts to Create “Bulwark” Against Irregular Migration (Immigration Detention Monitor, May 2025) [text]

Shrinking Spaces of Refuge Leave Displaced Eritreans Asking ‘Where to Next?’ (RLI Blog, May 2025) [text]

UNHCR statement on reduction of food assistance at the Agadez Humanitarian Centre in Niger (UNHCR, May 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"The age of intra-African migration: shifting patterns of regional mobility between two global diasporas, 1850–1960," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:32 (May 2025) [open access]

"The ‘Borders of Berlin’: West African protests and the coloniality of Euro-African deportation cooperation," Geoforum, vol. 161 (May 2025) [open access]

"Explaining re-migration preferences among assisted returnees: evidence from Discrete Choice Experiments in Sudan, Somalia, and Ethiopia," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 20 May 2025 [open access]

"'Internal localisation' and early action: exploring decision-making and power amongst humanitarian actors in South Sudan," Third World Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

Lost Land, Broken Homes: The Struggles of Returnees and Relocated Persons in Northeast Nigeria (Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility et al., May 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Shifting protection experiences of displaced Eritreans (Mixed Migration Centre, May 2025) [text]

Supporting Mutual Aid in Sudan: Conflict-Sensitive Approaches to Risk and Accountability, BASIC Research Working Paper, no. 40 (Institute of Development Studies, May 2025) [text]

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