African Refugees

Author : Olayiwola Abegunrin,Sabella O. Abidde
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030566425

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African Migrants and the Refugee Crisis by Olayiwola Abegunrin,Sabella O. Abidde Pdf

This book discusses African migration and the refugee crisis. Economic, political and social tension in the Middle East and in many parts of the Global South has induced historic mass migration across national and international borders. The situation is especially dire in Africa, where a sizable number of Africans have chosen or have been forced to leave their countries of origin for Europe and North America. Written by an international team of scholars, this edited book traces the refugee crisis around the world, telling the necessary story of forced migration, intentional exclusion, and human insecurity from an Afrocentric lens. The volume is divided into three sections. Section I places African migration within the broader contexts of international history, law, economics, and policy. Section II discusses cases of African migration to Europe, Latin America, and the Mediterranean. Section III considers negative consequences of mass African migration, including the restriction and criminalization of migration, post-traumatic stress disorder, and gender-based violence. A compelling account of risk, resilience, and global power dynamics, this volume will be useful to students and researchers interested in African studies, migration, peace and conflict studies, and policy as well as professionals, practitioners, NGOs, IGOs, governmental and humanitarian organizations.

Author : Toyin Falola,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253064448

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African Refugees by Toyin Falola,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso Pdf

African Refugees is a comprehensive overview of the context, causes, and consequences of refugee lives, discussing issues, policies, and solutions for African refugees around the world. It covers overarching topics such as human rights, policy frameworks, refugee protection, and durable solutions, as well as less-studied topics such as refugee youths, refugee camps, LGBTQ refugees, urban refugees, and refugee women. It also takes on rare but emergent topics such as citizenship and the creativity of African refugees. Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso showcase the voices and experiences of individual refugees through the sweep of history to tell the African refugee story from the historical past through current developments, covering the full range of experience from the causes of flight to living in exile, all while maintaining a persistent focus on the complicated search for solutions. African Refugees recognizes African agency and contributions in pursuit of solutions for African refugees over time but avoids the pitfalls of the colonial gaze—where refugees are perpetually pathologized and Africa is always the sole cause of its own problems—seeking to complicate these narratives by recognizing African refugee issues within exploitative global, colonial, and neo-colonial systems of power.

Author : J. Milner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230246799

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Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa by J. Milner Pdf

How do African states respond to the mass arrival and prolonged presence of refugees? This book answers this question by drawing on recent case studies and examining the politics behind refugee policy in Africa. The implications of this approach are important not only for the study of asylum in Africa, but also for the future of refugee protection.

Author : Erhabor Idemudia,Klaus Boehnke
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030483470

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Psychosocial Experiences of African Migrants in Six European Countries by Erhabor Idemudia,Klaus Boehnke Pdf

This open access book provides an empirical account of the psychological and social experiences of 3500 African migrants to 6 European countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, France, and the UK. It discusses the psychosocial motivations for migration from Africa, who migrates where, and stressful pre- and post-migration factors affecting the social and psychological wellbeing of migrants. The book also includes a detailed exploration of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) among African migrants. Addressing and offering solutions to pre- and post-migration problems in Africa and Europe as well as the problems associated with the perilous journeys involved, this unique study is a must-read for anyone interested in cross-cultural psychology and social science, and particularly in migration and mental health.

Author : Gaim Kibreab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039933424

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African Refugees by Gaim Kibreab Pdf

Study of refugee trends in Africa - examines historical aspects of refugee movements in precolonial, colonial and post-colonial Africa, the impact of arbitrary frontiers on tribal peoples, the magnitude of the African refugee problem 1970-1984; reviews the myth of present-day African hospitality; presents an overview of UNHCR assistance, human settlements and the integrated approach to rural development; discusses the impact of refugees on economic development. References, statistical tables.

Author : Howard Adelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429722851

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African Refugees by Howard Adelman Pdf

Of the world's refugees, more than a third live in Africa, displaced from their homelands by war, poverty, famine and political persecution. In this book, contributors explore key issues related to these refugee populations. The first section looks at the legal framework for defining and assisting refugees, and the second deals with the issue of relief by considering specific cases, the general problems faced and particular relief efforts. Subsequent chapters examine forced migration, resettlement and repatriation, conflict with local populations, integration of refugees, and sustainable development.

Author : Marc Sommers
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782384700

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Fear in Bongoland by Marc Sommers Pdf

Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are young refugee men who migrate to urban areas. This volume, the first full-length study of urban refugees in hiding, tells the story of Burundi refugee youth who escaped from remote camps in central Tanzania to work in one of Africa's fastest-growing cities, Dar es Salaam. This steamy, rundown capital would seem uninviting to many, particularly for second generation survivors of genocide whose lives are ridden with fear. But these young men nonetheless join migrants in "Bongoland" (meaning "Brainland") where, as the nickname suggests, only the shrewdest and most cunning can survive. Mixing lyrics from church hymns and street vernacular, descriptions of city living in cartoons and popular novels and original photographs, this book creates an ethnographic portrait of urban refugee life, where survival strategies spring from street smarts and pastors' warnings of urban sin, and mastery of popular youth culture is highly valued. Pentecostalism and a secret rift within the seemingly impenetrable Hutu ethnic group are part of the rich texture of this contemporary African story. Written in accessible prose, this book offers an intimate picture of how Africa is changing and how refugee youth are helping to drive that change.

Author : Sabella O. Abidde
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030566500

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The Challenges of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa by Sabella O. Abidde Pdf

This book discusses the phenomena of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDP) across several African countries. There are 40 million IDP worldwide; of these, an estimated 12.6 million are in 37 of Africa’s 55 countries. Written by a team of fifteen scholars across four continents, this book uses both quantitative and qualitative data to analyze the causes and consequences of this displacement, the role of the state in creating and mitigating these situations, and potential policy solutions. The volume is divided into three sections. Chapters in Section 1 discuss the causes of displacement. Chapters in Section 2 discuss refugees in their regional context. Chapters in Section 3 discuss IDP camps in Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana. Bringing scholarly analysis to address two humanitarian crises, this book will be useful to students and researchers interested in African politics, forced migration, and policy as well as members of the diplomatic corps, governmental, and non-governmental organizations actively working towards solving these challenges.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Refugees
ISBN : IND:30000139877835

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African Refugees by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harvey Amani Whitfield
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1584656069

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Blacks on the Border by Harvey Amani Whitfield Pdf

A study of the emergence of community among African Americans in Nova Scotia.

Author : Jochen Lingelbach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789204476

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On the Edges of Whiteness by Jochen Lingelbach Pdf

From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors. While intervening in key historical debates across academic disciplines, this book also gives an accessible and memorable account of survival and dramatic cultural dislocation against the backdrop of global conflict.

Author : B Camminga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319926698

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Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa by B Camminga Pdf

This book tracks the conceptual journeying of the term ‘transgender’ from the Global North—where it originated—along with the physical embodied journeying of transgender asylum seekers from countries within Africa to South Africa and considers the interrelationships between the two. The term 'transgender' transforms as it travels, taking on meaning in relation to bodies, national homes, institutional frameworks and imaginaries. This study centres on the experiences and narratives of people that can be usefully termed 'gender refugees', gathered through a series of life story interviews. It is the argument of this book that the departures, border crossings, arrivals and perceptions of South Africa for gender refugees have been both enabled and constrained by the contested meanings and politics of this emergence of transgender. This book explores, through these narratives, the radical constitutional-legal possibilities for 'transgender' in South Africa, the dissonances between the possibilities of constitutional law, and the pervasive politics/logic of binary ‘sex/gender’ within South African society. In doing so, this book enriches the emergent field of Transgender Studies and challenges some of the current dominant theoretical and political perceptions of 'transgender'. It offers complex narratives from the African continent regarding sex, gender, sexuality and notions of home concerning particular geo-politically situated bodies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198826224

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gaim Kibreab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039397612

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Reflections on the African Refugee Problem by Gaim Kibreab Pdf

Research report analysing certain assumptions concerning the African refugee problem - discusses the theoretical and historical background, trends and causes, geographic distribution (1966-1981), tribal peoples conflicts resulting from the arbitrary creation of frontiers under colonialism, "hospitality" or exploitation, role of UN (UNHCR), etc.; argues that refugees can, under appropriate planning, economic aid and technical cooperation, stimulate economic development in the immigration country. References.

Author : Tim Allen,Hubert Morsink
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010469935

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When Refugees Go Home by Tim Allen,Hubert Morsink Pdf

It is well known that there are millions of refugees in Africa. It is less well known that there are milions of refugees who have returned home. This book puts these 'returnees' on the map, documenting some of what happens to people when they go back to their countries of origin and start to pick up the pieces of their lives. Published in association with UNRISD; North America: Africa World Press