Short pieces:
Between the Court and the Street: South Africa’s Asylum Crossroads (RLI
Blog, Nov. 2026) [text]
East Africa’s migration story is not just about Europe – what policymakers
get wrong (The Conversation, Nov. 2026) [text]
Kenya’s refugee policies win international praise, but fall short at home
(RLI Blog, Nov. 2026) [text]
UNHCR and Danish partners support the integration of refugees in Kenya
(UNHCR Blog, Nov. 2026) [text]
New open access book:
Humanizing Data: Representative Storytelling in a Refugee Camp
(Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2026) [open access]
- This book "immerses readers in the everyday life of the Kakuma refugee
camp, one the largest refugee camps in Africa. While the media frequently
offers sensationalist portrayals of refugees as victims, heroes, or
villains, this book adopts an alternative methodology called
Representative Storytelling that enables readers to situate individual
stories in relation to the experience of the wider population. Based on
long-term extensive research within the camp, including large-scale
quantitative data collection, the authors worked with nine households
located at different points on the camp's income distribution curve to
tell their own stories in their own words. The result is nine in-depth
narratives, which the reader is able to contextualise because they
represent the full spectrum of living standards within the camp. As the
protagonists highlight particular themes such as humanitarian aid, food
insecurity, education, health, employment, the authors draw upon their
wider research to explain how representative those accounts are of the
wider population. The result is a comprehensive understanding of life in
Kakuma, and an invitation to reflect on how we can combine human stories
and statistics to support public understanding of the lives of distant
strangers."
Reports:
EU Return Regulation outsources migration problems to Africa, Policy Brief,
no. 221 (Institute for Security Studies, Oct. 2026) [text]
Funding mutual aid groups in Sudan: routes, losses and what needs to change
(ODI, Oct. 2026) [text]
Insuring the Excluded: Lessons from Malawi’s Parametric Insurance Pilot
for Refugees (Refugees International, Nov. 2026) [text]
Land access and use in Uganda’s Refugee Hosting Districts: A Desk Review
on the Impact of Land Access on Self-Reliance in Uganda’s Refugee Response
(U-Learn, Oct. 2026) [text
via ReliefWeb]
Return and Mobility Intention Report Sudan: Understanding return
intentions, destinations and future mobility patterns among internally
displaced and returnee households across Sudan (International Organization
for Migration, Oct. 2026) [text
via ReliefWeb]
Journal articles:
"Internal Displacement and Refugees in Ethiopia: A Scoping Review," Journal of Migration and Health, Article in Press, 5 Nov. 2026 [open access]
"Regionalism and the categorization of migrants in Africa – comparing ECOWAS
and the SADC," Comparative Migration Studies, 14:71 (Nov. 2026)
[open access]
"'Resilient' Refugees? Eritreans in Addis Ababa," Development and Change, Early View, 27 Oct. 2026 [open access]
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