African Migrants and the Refugee Crisis

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.

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

Auteur

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.

Contenu

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.