Roaming Africa
Subtitle: Migration, Resilience and Social Protection
By: edited by Mirjam Van Reisen, Munyaradzi Mawere, Mia Stokmans & Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher
Series: Connected and mobile : migration and human trafficking in Africa -- book 2
Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 613
ISBN-13: 9789956551019
Subjects: Technology; Social aspects; Internal migrants; Politics and government; Internal Migration; Political aspects; Emigration and immigration; Africa; Migration; Livelihoods; Refugees; Return migration
Description: What happens when digital innovation meets migration? Roaming Africa considers how we understand modern-day mobility in Africa, where age-old routes strengthen the resilience of people roaming the continent for livelihoods and security, assisted by mobile communication. Digital mobility expands connectivity around the world, and also in Africa. In this book, the authors show that mobility, resilience and social protection in the digital age are closely related. Each chapter takes a close look at the migration dynamics in a specific context, using social theory as a lens. This book adopts a critical perspective on approaches in which migration is regarded merely as a hazard. Edited by distinguished scholars from Africa and Europe, this volume, the second in a four-part series Connected and Mobile: Migration and Human Trafficking in Africa, compiles chapters from a diverse group of young and upcoming scholars, making an important contribution to the literature on migration studies, digital science, social protection and governance. [back cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Theoretical perspectives -1. Roaming in Africa : a social analysis of migration and resilience (Mirjam van Reisen et al); 2. All or nothing : the costs of migration from the Horn of Africa; title: evidence from Ethiopia (Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher); 3. Why do foreign solution not work in Africa? : recognizing alternate epistemologies (Gertjan van Stam); Part 2. Living borders; title: 4. Continuation of care across borders : providing health care for people on the move in East Africa (Dorothy Muroki, Boniface Kitungulu and Leanne Kamau); 5. Mobility as a social process : conflict management in the border areas of Afar region (Abdelah Alifunur and Mirjam van Reisen); Part 3. New perspectives in migration; title: 6. Out of the frying pan into the fire : are climate disasters fueling human trafficking in Kenya? (Radoslaw Malinowski and Mario Schulze); 7. Standing in two worlds : mobility and the connectivity of diaspora communities (Antony Otieno Ong'ayo); 8. 'Europe is not worth dying for' : the dilemma facing Somalis in Europe (Melissa Phillips and Mingo Heiduk); 9. Countering radicalization in communities : the case of Pumwani, Nairobi (Reginald Nalugala); Part 4. Livelihoods; title: 10. Moving on to make a living : the secondary migration of Eritrean refugees in Tigray, Ethiopia (Bereket Godifay Kahsay); 11. Inhospitable realities : refugees' livelihoods in Hitsats, Ethiopia (Kristína Melicherová); 12. Young and on their own : the protection of Eritrean refugee children in Tigray, Ethiopia (Tekie Gebreyesus and Rick Schoenmaeckers); Part 5. The challenge of return migration; title: 13. Home, but not home : reintegration of Ethiopian women returning from the Gulf War (Beza L. Nisrane); 14. Shattered dreams : life after deportation for Ethiopian returnees from Saudi Arabia (Shishay Tadesse Abay); 15. Life after the Lord's Resistance Army : support for formerly abducted girls in Northern Uganda (Primrose Nakazibwe and Mirjam van Reisen).