AMMODI blog
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Displacement and Invisibility Strategies in Postwar Burundi
Cover photo by author. Peace village outside Gitega Series Introduction This post is a part of a series introducing the recent anthology Invisibility in African Displacements (Zed Books 2020). The book was edited by Simon Turner and AMMODI co-founder Jesper Bjarnesen, and offers new analytical ideas for understanding migrant in/visibilisation. In each post, the contributors… Read more
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Post-slavery and the invisibility of female (e)motions in migration, displacement and refugee studies
Cover photo by Alessandro Vannucci via Flickr Series Introduction This post is a part of a series introducing the recent anthology Invisibility in African Displacements (Zed Books 2020). The book was edited by Simon Turner and AMMODI co-founder Jesper Bjarnesen, and offers new analytical ideas for understanding migrant in/visibilisation. In each post, the contributors present… Read more
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Encamped within a camp: transgender refugees and Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kenya)
Photo from @campLGBTI Twitter, September 2020 Series Introduction This post is a part of a series introducing the recent anthology Invisibility in African Displacements (Zed Books 2020). The book was edited by Simon Turner and AMMODI co-founder Jesper Bjarnesen, and offers new analytical ideas for understanding migrant in/visibilisation. In each post, the contributors present their… Read more
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Displacement agriculture: neither seen nor heard
Cover photo by author. Burundian labour migrants outside Nyarugusu refugee camp. Series Introduction This post is a part of a series introducing the recent anthology Invisibility in African Displacements (Zed Books 2020). The book was edited by Simon Turner and AMMODI co-founder Jesper Bjarnesen, and offers new analytical ideas for understanding migrant in/visibilisation. In each… Read more
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Transnational Skills Partnerships between Ghana and Germany: A “triple-win” solution?
Global skills partnerships are often mentioned as a viable solution for creating legal South-North migration pathways, which may offer educational and livelihood options for aspiring migrants while also providing much needed inflows to labour markets in the global north. The Global Compact for Migration spelled out this rationale but so far, very few concrete programmes… Read more
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Border management and state sovereignty in the Sahel
Since 2015, European interventions in the Sahel have surged in response to ‘irregular’ migration to the EU and the perceived incapacity of the Sahelian states to control their own borders. In this blog post, Ekaterina Golovko scrutinises the notion of capacity building in relation to local surveillance committees in order to deconstruct the underlying logics… Read more