African Refugees

by Toyin Falola, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso

Overview

African Refugees is a comprehensive overview of the context, causes, and consequences of refugee lives, discussing issues, policies, and solutions for African refugees around the world. It covers overarching topics such as human rights, policy frameworks, refugee protection, and durable solutions, as well as less-studied topics such as refugee youths, refugee camps, LGBTQ refugees, urban refugees, and refugee women. It also takes on rare but emergent topics such as citizenship and the creativity of African refugees.

Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso showcase the voices and experiences of individual refugees through the sweep of history to tell the African refugee story from the historical past through current developments, covering the full range of experience from the causes of flight to living in exile, all while maintaining a persistent focus on the complicated search for solutions.

African Refugees recognizes African agency and contributions in pursuit of solutions for African refugees over time but avoids the pitfalls of the colonial gaze—where refugees are perpetually pathologized and Africa is always the sole cause of its own problems—seeking to complicate these narratives by recognizing African refugee issues within exploitative global, colonial, and neo-colonial systems of power.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253064448
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	01/03/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	634
Sales rank:	1,016,874
File size:	16 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Toyin Falola is Distinguished Teaching Professor and Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Falola is author/editor of over one hundred and fifty books on African history, politics, and society and the recipient of sixteen honorary doctorates from around the world, as well as more than thirty lifetime achievement awards. He is at the moment working on various aspects of African knowledge systems, including his recently published book Decolonizing African Studies.

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is Associate Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Brandeis University, and co-Chair of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies (FTGS) Section of the International Studies Association. Two decades of field research and publications on African refugees and women's issues have earned her multiple grants and fellowships including from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and the University for Peace Africa Program, among others. Dr. Yacob-Haliso's most recent books include the three-volume Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies and African Indigenous Knowledges in a Postcolonial World.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Acronyms
Maps
Preface
Acknowledgements
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 Making 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 Postrelocation
Part V: Conclusion
17. Citizenship, Rights and Development
18. The Future: Ending Africa's Refugee Crisis
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

Fenda A. Akiwumi

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.

Ogenga Otunnu

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.

Editorial Reviews

"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

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