AMMODI blog
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Europe outsourcing asylum to African countries is a terrible idea – there are alternatives
This is a republished post, originally published by The Conversation, in which Laura Lambert and Martin Lemberg-Pedersen takes stock of European efforts to outsource its asylum processing procedures, and offer some alternatives. Read more
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Europe’s ‘ineffective’ migration policies work well for white supremacy
This blog post describes how white supremacy works through European approaches to ‘manage’ migration from Africa. Iriann Freemantle argues that while it sometimes takes militant forms, the mainstream version of white supremacy is much more pervasive. Although still violent, it is rhetorically softer and avoids explicit racial bias. Yet, its basic premise remains: that whiteness… Read more
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Too many nerds in one room: Theories, theorization, and deconstructing categories
This post reflects on theory-building and inequality in migration research related to African contexts, and the power of categorisations about displacement. Read more
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Historical Migrations in Africa: From Flexible Configurations to Transgressive Mobilities
Historical mobilities in Africa challenge the conceptualisation of mobility and immobility as binaries. In this post, Rose Jaji elaborates on how contemporary migration governance on the continent can be traced back to the transplantation of Western notions of statehood and nationhood to Africa through colonialism, and how these ideas transformed migration and non-migration from continuums… Read more
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“Inequality isn’t just ‘out there’”: Interrogating disparities in research on mobilities and inequality in Africa
Cover photo by “flowcomm”, accessed on Flickr by Hassan Ould Moctar & Heike Drotbohm At a recent Point Sud workshop that took place 15-18 March 2023 in Accra and Cape Coast, we, a group of thirty scholars from several African and European countries, gathered to exchange and reflect on migration research in and from Africa. Over… Read more
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We Live in a State of Fear: Eritrean refugees keep bearing the brunt of the Ethiopian crisis
For Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia, the situation has changed drastically with the armed conflict between the central government and Tigray state that broke out on 4 November 2020. They have endured attacks and abuses from both sides, and have find little protection in the designated refugee camps. Some camps closest to the Eritrean border have… Read more