Full Description
This book investigates the diverse and dynamic forms of migration within Africa. Centring themes of agency, resource flows, and transnational networks, the book examines the enduring appeal of the Global South as a place of origin, transit, and destination.
Popular media, government pronouncements, and much of the global research discourse continue to be oriented towards migration from the Global South to the Global North, despite the fact that the vast majority of migration is South-South. This book moves beyond these mischaracterisations and instead distinctly focuses on the agency of African migrants and the creative strategies they employ while planning their routes within and across the African continent. Case studies explore the flow of resources such as people, money, skills, and knowledge throughout the continent, while also casting a light on the lived experiences of migrants as they negotiate their sometimes precarious and vulnerable positions. Underpinned by intensive empirical studies, this book challenges prevailing narratives and provides a new way of thinking about South-South Migration.
Composed by a majority of scholars from the Global South, the book will be crucial reading for researchers, students, and policy makers with a focus on South-South Migration, Migration and Inequalities, Migration and Development, and Refugee and Humanitarian Studies.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available by KU 2024 under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction: Intra-continental migration dynamics in Africa and the importance of South-South Migration (SSM) Part II: Agency in South-South Migration 2. Platinum mining, migrant labour, and community formation in informal settlements in Rustenburg, South Africa, 1994-2018 3. Unpacking the reasons for dominance of South-South migration: The Ethiopian case 4. Exploring the lived experiences of Ghanaian migrants along the Ghana-China migration corridor 5. Looking beyond the victimhood discourse: The case of forced migrants in the Global South Part III: The Flows of Resources in South-South Migration 6. Humanitarian nomads: The mobilities and disjunctures inherent to aid work in the Global South 7. The flow of resources in the Global South: The transfer of agricultural skills between Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso 8. Transnational flow of ideas in the Ethiopia-South Africa migration corridor: Hadiya experiences 9. Religious place-making and African mobilities: Muslim and Christian Moroccan sites in migrant trajectories within and beyond the continent 10. Djibouti, a migratory crossroads in the Red Sea basin: Prospects and challenges 11. Forced Migration Life Trajectories and Politics of Contradictions: South Sudanese between being IDPs and Refugees in Sudan and South Sudan
