African Migrants and the Refugee Crisis

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 Marzęda-Młynarska

      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

4. Impact, Cost, and Consequences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241

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   2. “Evaporating Mediterranean: The Fate of Migrants in a Shrinking Sea Commons”

      • John Hickman

      Pages 243-259

   3. Criminalizing the Mediterranean Crossing: The Regulation of Migrants, Refugees, and Rescue Missions at Europe’s Southern Borders

      • Isabella Alexander-Nathani

      Pages 261-276

   4. Skilled Female New Canadians and Mental Health Challenges: Effect of Unemployment and Underemployment

      • Felicia Ihuoma Nwalutu, Michael Onyedika Nwalutu

      Pages 277-293

   5. The Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis in Africa

      • Elisha J. Dung, Augustine Avwunudiogba

      Pages 295-313

   6. The Political Economy of Transnational Migration: A Case Study of Nigerian Immigrants in the United States

      • Olayiwola Abegunrin

      Pages 315-328

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.

• Africa
• Migrants
• Refugees
• African migration
• refugee crisis
• Migration policy
• Transnational migration
• criminalization

• University of Maryland, Hyattsville, USA

  Olayiwola Abegunrin

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

  Sabella O. Abidde

​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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