Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"African Refugees seeks to evaluate and negotiate the redefinitions, reevaluations, and reconstructions of the phenomenon of refugees, foregrounding the people in an African experience. It goes deeper than most existing books as it emphasizes "a new dawn" or change in the topicality and subject matter in refugee writings via a historical perspective that is overshadowed by expected topics such as human rights, policy frameworks, refugee protection, and durable solutions; as well as less-studied topics such as refugee youths, refugee camps, urban refugees, and refugee women. It takes on rare but emergent topics, such as citizenship and the creativity of African refugees. It tells the African refugee story from the long historical past through current developments, covering the full range of experience from the causes of flight to living in exile, and it maintains a persistent focus on the complicated search for solutions."—Fenda A. Akiwumi, University of South Florida
"This voluminous work takes an all-inclusive decolonial approach to the study of forced migration, causes and consequences, refugees in Africa and the diaspora, humanitarian studies, and rethinking futuristic approaches to solving the crises."—Ogenga Otunnu, DePaul University
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
List of Acronyms
Acknowledgements
Maps
Preface
Part I: Context
1. Refugeehood in Africa
2. Refugee Studies
3. African Refugee Studies
4. Human Rights Instruments on African Refugees
5. States and Policy Frameworks
Part II: Making Refugees
6. Colonialism and the Production of Refugees in Africa
7. Postcolonial Politics, Wars and African Refugee Problems
8. Internal Displacement in Africa
Part III: Displaced Lives
9. Refugee Camps and Settlements in Africa
10. Urban Refugees
11. African Refugee Women: Gendering Policy and Protection
12. African Refugee Youth
13. Hope in Displacement: Refugees and Cultures of Creativity
Part IV: Protection and Solutions
14. Refugee Protection and Management
15. Durable Solutions and the Crisis of Development
16. Home, Return and Post-Relocation
Part V: Conclusion
17. Citizenship, Rights and Development
18. The Future: Ending Africa's Refugee Crisis
Bibliography
Index
