Beschreibung:
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.
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 therestriction 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.
Introduction.- Section One: History, Rights, Policy and Protocols.- Chapter 1: Forced Migration and the Failure of Governance.- Chapter 2: Public Policy and Migration in Africa: A Multi-Theoretical Approach.- Chapter 3: Migration and Human Rights in Africa.- Chapter 4: The Global Border Industrial Complex and Eastern Africa: Analysing the Political Economy of Transnational Migration.- Chapter 5: Migration and Human Rights in Africa: The Policy and Legal Framework in Broad Strokes.- Section Two: Regional Perspectives and Implications.- Chapter 6: African migrants in Poland 1945 – 2019.- Chapter 7: Globalizing forces on migration? A Dual Process.- Chapter 8: Non-Recognition and Its Implications: African Asylum Seekers in Israel.- Chapter 9: Rise of Populist Parties in the Era of Migration Crisis.- Chapter 10: African Migration to Brazil in the Twenty-First Century: New Trajectories and Old Paradigms.- Chapter 11: Libya and African Migration to Europe.- Section Three: Impact, Cost, and Consequences.- Chapter 12: Evaporating Mediterranean: The Fate of Migrants in a Shrinking Sea Commons”.- Chapter 13: Criminalizing the Mediterranean Crossing: The Regulation of Migrants, Refugees, and Rescue Missions at Europe's Southern Borders.- Chapter 14: Skilled Female New Canadians and Mental-Health Challenges: Effect of Unemployment and Underemployment.- Chapter 15: The Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis in Africa.- Chapter 16: The Political Economy of Transnational Migration: A Case Study of Nigerian Immigrants in The United States.
