Author: ammodi
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Introducing “Invisibility in African Displacements”
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 chapter in a more accessible format,…
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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…
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Involuntary returns from Libya and reintegration in Ghana
Involuntary returns of sub-Saharan African nationals are likely to become an increasingly central feature of international migration governance. Relying on findings from their empirical study on the experiences of Ghanaian migrants forcibly returned during the political crisis in Libya in 2011, Leander Kandilige and Geraldine Asiwome Adiku consider the challenges facing multi-stakeholder coordination of safe…
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The IOM and ‘voluntary return’ programmes in Africa
In June 2020, Euronews published a three-part series on African migration to Europe, with a particular focus on the EU-funded projects run by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to return migrants to their home country. In a right-to-reply article, the IOM responded to the criticism, calling the Euronews analysis ‘one-sided’. In this post, Antoine…