Tag: Refugees
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The Solo Woman Researcher in the Field
In this post, Sudha Rawat and Rose Jaji reflect on their experiences during field research with refugees in India and Kenya. They highlight how the research encounter is subject to constant negotiation beyond the initial rapport and entails unanticipated realities that are more about adaptation and personalized encounters than training and disembodied neutral observation.
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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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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
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,…
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From Campus to Camp and Back
In this field note, Marcia C. Schenck reflects on her ongoing involvement with Princeton University’s Global History Lab courses in Kakuma refugee camp. Through courses in global history, she argues, camp residents are not only given access to academic knowledge but also empowered to produce compelling historic narratives by using their location advantage; migration experience;…
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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.