1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Migration
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.