The African refugee equilibrium
Africans' lack of knowledge about our own shared refugee experiences continues to fuel hate and discrimination on the continent.
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Africa’s forgotten refugee convention
In 1969, the OAU proposed its own refugee convention to reflect African values. Why did it not become policy across the continent?
Refugee debates have an African history problem
Despite increased global debate over refugee issues, few discuss these issues in terms of refugee histories, especially histories of Africans seeking refuge in and beyond the continent.
The “refugees welcome” culture
For all the good press, the majority of German society are uncomfortable with people who frame their demands from a postcolonial perspective.
The world already has a refugee crisis
The media's focus on the European "refugee crisis" obscures the fact the bulk of refugees are in camps in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Kenya’s Refugee “Problem”
The government is using the refugee population as red meat in local politics and a bargaining chip for more international aid.
Passing as a refugee
Borders and camps across Africa are using biometrics to track refugees. For those who are stateless, “fraud” can allow for the smuggling of truths into administrative lies.
The hierarchy of refugee stories
In sharp contrast to the coverage of Syrian refugees, Western media barely register the escalating Eritrean refugee crisis.
Essentialism and the making of African refugees
African “refugeeness” in the media, policy, and academia is an essentialist physical image conflating material deprivation and multiple victimhoods.
The Ebola refugees
Has migration policy reckoned with epidemics like Ebola?
Europe’s refugee colonialism
EU countries outsource their “migration problem” to mostly authoritarian or unstable regimes. 24 African countries already receive funding to “stem migration.”
Unthinking refugee studies
What use are academic categories when they reinforce conservative concepts scholars seek to challenge?
Shutting Down Dadaab Endangers Refugees
Those, mostly Somalis, born in Dadaab, since its creation in 1991, could be sent to a country they have never known.
The lives of refugees
Somali refugees in Kenya are held hostage by political disagreements between their governments. Under international law, Kenya has a duty to protect them.
What is it like to be a refugee in Germany?
The general trend has been to make immigration more difficult, rather than improving the conditions for asylum seekers and refugees.
The journey of a thousand steps
How might refugee as well as forced migration studies benefit from the movement to decolonize all aspects of African Studies?