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African Migrants and the Refugee Crisis

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Editors:
  1. Olayiwola Abegunrin

    1. University of Maryland, Hyattsville, USA

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  2. Sabella O. Abidde

    1. Department of History and Political Science, Alabama State University, Montgomery, USA

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  • Analyzes African migration within the context of the refugee crisis

  • Examines economic, political, and social factors that have contributed to the crisis

  • Provides case studies discussing humanitarian failures and other negative consequences suffered by African migrants

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. History, Rights, Policy and Protocols

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Forced Migration and the Failure of Governance

      • Sabella O. Abidde
      Pages 3-21

    3. Public Policy and Migration in Africa: A Multi-Theoretical Approach

      • Benjamin Adu Gyamfi, Comfort Tiwaa Kwarteng, Enoch Appiagyei
      Pages 23-54

    4. Migration and Human Rights in Africa

      • Konstantinos D. Magliveras, Gino J. Naldi
      Pages 55-71

    5. The Global Border Industrial Complex and Eastern Africa: Analyzing the Political Economy of Transnational Migration

      • Zuzana Uhde
      Pages 73-93

    6. Migration and Human Rights in Africa: The Policy and Legal Framework in Broad Strokes

      • Caroline Nalule
      Pages 95-111

  3. Regional Perspectives and Implications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. African Migrants in Poland 1945–2019

      • Katarzyna MarzÄ™da-MĹ‚ynarska
      Pages 115-137

    3. Globalizing Forces on Migration? A Dual Process

      • Franco Tomassoni, Pedro Ponte e Sousa
      Pages 139-155

    4. Non-recognition and Its Implications: African Asylum Seekers in Israel

      • Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe
      Pages 157-174

    5. Rise of Populist Parties in the Era of Migration Crisis

      • Natia Mechitishvili
      Pages 175-186

    6. African Migration to Brazil in the Twenty-First Century: New Trajectories and Old Paradigms

      • Roberto Rodolfo Georg Uebel
      Pages 187-218

    7. Libya and African Migration to Europe

      • Olubukola S. Adesina
      Pages 219-240
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This book discusses African migration and the refugee crisis. Economic, political and social tension in the Middle East and in many parts of the Global South has induced historic mass migration across national and international borders. The situation is especially dire in Africa, where a sizable number of Africans have chosen or have been forced to leave their countries of origin for Europe and North America. Written by an international team of scholars, this edited book traces the refugee crisis around the world, telling the necessary story of forced migration, intentional exclusion, and human insecurity from an Afrocentric lens. 
The volume is divided into three sections. Section I places African migration within the broader contexts of international history, law, economics, and policy. Section II discusses cases of African migration to Europe, Latin America, and the Mediterranean. Section III considers negative consequences of mass African migration, including the restriction and criminalization of migration, post-traumatic stress disorder, and gender-based violence. A compelling account of risk, resilience, and global power dynamics, this volume will be useful to students and researchers interested in African studies, migration, peace and conflict studies, and policy as well as professionals, practitioners, NGOs, IGOs, governmental and humanitarian organizations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Maryland, Hyattsville, USA

    Olayiwola Abegunrin

  • Department of History and Political Science, Alabama State University, Montgomery, USA

    Sabella O. Abidde

About the editors

​Olayiwola Abegunrin is Professor of International Relations, African Studies, and Political Economy, Howard University and the University of Maryland, US. He is a Carnegie Mellon Foundation Fellow. His teaching and research focus is on International Relations, African Politics, Political Economy and U.S. Foreign Policy. 
Sabella Ogbobode Abidde is an Associate Professor of Political Science and member of the graduate faculty at Alabama State University, US, where he teaches courses in comparative politics, international relations, African politics and institutions, and the politics of developing nations.

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