Tag: Invisibility
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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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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,…