Routledge Handbook of 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.

This book defies definitive classification. Many of the survey papers are what you would expect in a handbook: broad and sufficiently detailed overviews with substantial bibliographies for readers who want to go further. A few of the survey papers and case studies are more conceptual and theoretical, while some of the case or micro studies are rich and thought-provoking investigations. Everything is contemporary and the data and references are up to date as promised in the title. As such, the book offers a valuable entry point for students, journalists, and researchers in this field.

Alan Hirsch, New South Institute, University of Cape Town and SOAS, University of London, London, UK, writing in the South African Journal of International Affairs.