Tag: Displacement
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Welcoming the Newcomers Our Way
Mainstream perceptions in public, media, and policy discourses predominantly assign the responsibility of integrating internally displaced persons to local and national institutions. In this post, Joyce Takaindisa reflects on recent fieldwork conducted in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe where Cyclone Idai displaced thousands and left a trail of destruction in 2019. She highlights the unique traditional practices that transcend conventional…
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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.
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Displacement and Invisibility Strategies in Postwar Burundi
In this post, Andrea Purdekova outlines some key themes from her chapter in the anthology “Invisibility in African Displacements”. Drawing on her extensive research on IDP resettlement in Burundi, she reflects on the structural invisibilisation of peacetime displacements, and the strategies of invisibility that people use to stake their claims to place in the post-war…
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Post-slavery and the invisibility of female (e)motions in migration, displacement and refugee studies
In this post, Lotte Pelckmans presents the findings of her chapter in the anthology “Invisibility in African Displacements”, exploring the ways in which women with slave status ‘vote with their feet’ by fleeing their arranged marriages and other forms of exploitation in the Niger-Nigeria borderlands. Through the notion of fugitive emplacements, she analyses how her…
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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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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,…