Tag: Migration
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Mapping Migration
This post introduces the Atlas of African Migration, developed by the Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa (SIHMA), which combines infographics with country profiles and migration narratives. The research outlines migration drivers, tracks movement corridors and identifies correlations between economic conditions and migration flows.
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Africa Is Our Country
In this post, Yacine Ait-Larbi makes a case for the need to consider free movement within the African continent as a key asset for Algeria’s ambitions to reform its economy. The author argues that Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs), such as the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), offer Algeria a unique opportunity to revitalise migration…
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The EU Africa migration agenda
In this post, Claire Kumar from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) reflects on a high-level policy seminar which aimed to explore challenges and concerns around migration governance and gather recommendations for charting a new path for future.
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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…
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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…
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“Inequality isn’t just ‘out there’”: Interrogating disparities in research on mobilities and inequality in Africa
In this post, Hassan Ould Moctar and Heike Drotbohm reflect on historical and enduring structural inequalities that affect the conduct and framing of migration scholarship in different ways. They draw on the discussion during a Point Sud workshop co-organised by AMMODI in Ghana in March 2023.
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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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Shifting the narrative on African migration
Negative public opinion in Europe is a major obstacle to holistic and sustainable policies relating to African migration. Based on his observations of migration debates in Sweden and Denmark, Jesper Bjarnesen argues for a shift in wording and perspective away from politicised opinions about immigration, or misplaced ideas of humanitarian responsibilities, towards a more constructive…
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Africa at the gates: Europe’s lose-lose migration management plan
Since the summer of 2015, the question of how to stem the flows from Africa and the Middle East is at the centre of increasingly existential debates about the very future of Europe. Loren B Landau and Iriann Freemantle contemplate the underlying logics and effects of EU migration management.