Full Description
This collection examines various types of displacement, reasons for migration, and rebuilding after forced migration in Africa.
In Migration and Displacement in Africa: Social Exclusion, Intergenerational Healing, and Communal Restoration, Abdul Karim Bangura and the contributors provide an interdisciplinary analysis of the nexus between migration and displacement. Over the past decades, climate change, globalization, technology, and governance on the continent has changed significantly, impacting communities as well as individuals and contributing to changes in both voluntary and forced migration. In this volume, the contributors unpack recent developments in migration studies. They discuss the legacies of colonialism and neocolonialism, climate change displacement, environmental migration, religious-orientation as motivation for migration, LGBTQIA+ displacement, homelessness, and displacement due to violence and public health emergencies. They examine migrant identity reconstruction, how Sankofa relates to migration and displacement, communal restoration after forced migration, COVID-19 and its impact on migrants, migration as represented in literature, the migration of youth, and bridging distances using digital technology. Bangura and the contributors argue that understanding migration and displacement in Africa requires a multifaceted approach which this collection uses to highlight the complex nature of migration and displacement issues today. This book is suitable for scholars, professors, students, and policy makers in African studies and other social and behavioral sciences.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abdul Karim Bangura
Chapter 1: Chibundu Onuzo's Sankofa and Dual Stance of Migration and Identity Reconstruction
Somtochukwu J. Metu and Ihuoma Okechukwu
Chapter 2: Empty Villages, Empty Food Baskets: The Rural-Urban Migration Story of Africa
Cecy Edijala Balogun
Chapter 3: Communal Restoration and Varied Encounters in Forced Migration: An Ubuntu Perspective
Adebimpe Desire Fashina
Chapter 4: COVID-19 Pandemic, Livelihoods, and Copying Strategies among the Batwa Minority Communities in Uganda
Julius Niringiyimana
Chapter 5: Intersecting Exclusions: Queer Migrations, Queer Displacements, and Queer Dislocations
Pamela Anyango Oloo
Chapter 6: Enhancing Post-traumatic Growth through the Recounting of Trauma Narratives
Adebimpe Desire Fashina
Chapter 7: Climate Mobility in East Africa and the Great Horn of Africa
Chris A. Shisanya
Chapter 8: Weak Institutions, Deneocoloniality, and Youth Migration
Emmanuel Vincent Nelson Kallon
Chapter 9: Navigating Complexity: Migration Dynamics within Africa
Seun Bamidele
Chapter 10: Migration and Displacement in Nigerian Drama: Focus on Soji Cole's Embers and Ahmed Yerima's Jakadiya
Beatrice Nwawuloke Onuoha
Chapter 11: Technology and Pre-teen Migrants' Feeling of Belonging: Bridging Distances Digitally
Adebimpe Desire Fashina and Adedeji Adediran Ogungbola
Index
