1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Migration

Edited By Daniel Makina, Dominic Pasura Copyright 2024
    450 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

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

    The handbook assembles a multidisciplinary contributor team of distinguished and upcoming Africanist scholars, practitioners, researchers, and policy experts both inside and outside Africa to contribute their perspectives on contemporary African migration. It attempts to address some of the following pertinent questions:

    • What drives contemporary migration in Africa?
    • How are its patterns and trends evolving?
    • What is the architecture of migration governance in Africa?
    • How do migration, diaspora engagement and development play out in Africa?
    • What are the future trajectories of African migration?

    The handbook is a valuable resource for practitioners, politicians, researchers, university students, and academics interested in studying and understanding contemporary African migration.

    • Contemporary African Migration: An Introduction

    Dominic Pasura and Daniel Makina

    Part I –History of African Migration

    • Migration as Empowerment - A Selected History of Migration and Displacement in Africa

     

    Graham Sherbut

    • Postcolonial States and Migration

     

    Clayton Boeyink and Simon Turner

    • African Philosophy and International Migration

     

    Blessing Chapfika

    Part II –Patterns and Trends of Contemporary African Migration

    • Patterns and Trends of International Migration within and Out of Africa

     

    Daniel Makina and Peter Mudungwe

    • Issues, Patterns, and Trends in Contemporary African Migration to Europe and North America

     

    Charles Temitope Adeyanju

    and Olabimpe A. Olatunji

    • The Contemporary "African Coolie" in the Middle East: Interrogating the Narratives of the Modern-Day African Slaves

    Chris C. Opesen, Opolot Amos and Mathew Amollo

    • Lesotho-South Africa Relations: A Case for Free Movement of Persons Across the Common Border

    Khabele Matlosa

    Part III – Migration Governance, Forced Displacement and Irregular Migration

    • Migration Policy Frameworks in Africa

     

    Tsion Tadesse Abebe and Peter Mudungwe

    • Refugee Politics in Africa

     

    Alexander Betts

    • Contemporary Forced Migration in Africa

     

    David Gakere Ndegwa

    • Migrating out of Migration: Diminishing Seasonal Migration Options and Conflicts Among the Pokot of Kenya

    Dulo Nyaoro

    • The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on African Migration

     

    Margaret Rutendo Magwedere and Daniel Makina

    Part IV – Migration, Diaspora Engagement, and The Politics of Development

    • The Remittances-Development Debate in Africa

     

    Daniel Makina and Margaret Rutendo Magwedere

    • Return Migration to Africa and its Development Potential

     

    Sabastiano Rwengabo

    • Re-considering the Concept of International Return in the African Context: The Place of Immobile Cognitive Return

     

    Mary Boatemaa Setrana and Adolf Awuku Bekoe,

    • The Nature and ‘Lived’ Experiences of Contemporary African Diasporas

     

    Thabani Mutambasere and Dominic Pasura

    • The Landscape of the African Diaspora

     

    Almaz Negash

    • Engendering Migration in Africa: The Case of Ethiopian Migration to South Africa

     

    Meron Zekele

    Part V –Future Trajectories of African Migration

    • Africa without Borders

     

    Jesper Bjarnesen and Amanda Bisong

    • The African Continental Free Trade Area and Migration Patterns

     

    Daniel Osarfo, Peter Quartey, and Joshua Y. Abor

    • Climate Variability and New Fish Eldorados in Africa

     

    Papa Sow

    • Migration Data Management in Africa

     

    Daniel Makina and John Atwebembeire Mushomi

    • The Future of Immigration in Africa

     

    Daniel Makina and Dominic Pasura

    Biography

    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.