Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Migration

ISBN-13: 9780367437558 / Angielski

Daniel Makina; Dominic Pasura

Opis

This Handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration. It endeavours to present a single source on issues such as migration history, trends, migrant profiles, narratives, migration-development nexus, migration governance, diasporas, impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, among others.

Spis treści

1. Contemporary African Migration: An Introduction Part I –History of African Migration 2. Migration as Empowerment - A Selected History of Migration and Displacement in Africa 3. Postcolonial States and Migration 4. African Philosophy and International Migration Part II –Patterns and Trends of Contemporary African Migration 5. Patterns and Trends of International Migration within and out of Africa 6. Issues, Patterns, and Trends in Contemporary African Migration to Europe and North America 7. The Contemporary "African Coolie" in the Middle East: Interrogating the Narratives of the Modern-Day African Slaves or Migration between Africa and the Arab States? 8. Lesotho-South Africa Relations: A case for free movement of persons across the common border Part III – Migration Governance, Forced Displacement and Irregular Migration 9. Migration Policy Frameworks in Africa 10. Refugee Politics in Africa 11. Contemporary Forced Migration in Africa 12. Migrating out of Migration: Diminishing seasonal migration options and conflicts among the Pokot of Kenya 13. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on African Migration 14. Part IV – Migration, Diaspora Engagement and The Politics of Development 15. The Remittances-Development Debate in Africa 16. Return Migration to Africa and its Development Potential 17. Re-considering the concept of international return in the African context: the place of immobile cognitive return 18. The Nature and ‘Lived’ Experiences of Contemporary African Diasporas 19. The Landscape of the African Diaspora 20. Engendering Migration in Africa: The Case of Ethiopian Migration to South Africa Part V –Future Trajectories of African Migration 21. Africa without Borders 22. The African Continental Free Trade Area and Migration Patterns 23. Climate Variability and New Fish Eldorados in Africa 24. Migration Data Management in Africa 25. The Future of Immigration in Africa

O autorze

Daniel Makina is a Professor of Economic Sciences at the University of South Africa. He holds a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His research interests include migration economics, financial inclusion in emerging markets, and FinTech. He has published in academic journals such as International Migration, Migration Letters, Applied Economics, Applied Financial Economics, the Journal of Developing Societies, African Finance Journal, African Development Review, among others. His recent edited volume is Extending Financial Inclusion in Africa published in 2019.

Dominic Pasura is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick, UK. His research interests include migration, transnationalism, and diaspora, in particular the new African diasporas. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited books. He is the author of African Transnational Diasporas: Fractured Communities and Plural Identities of Zimbabweans in Britain (2014) and co-editor of Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism: Global Perspectives (2016). He is the Principal Investigator on the UK Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) three-year funded grant project, ‘The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Transnational Young People of African Migrant Background,’ which commenced in May 2023.