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Author Falola, Toyin, author

Title African refugees / Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2023

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Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Acronyms -- Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Context -- 1. Refugeehood in Africa -- 2. Refugee Studies -- 3. African Refugee Studies -- 4. Human Rights Instruments on African Refugees -- 5. States and Policy Frameworks -- Part II: Making Refugees -- 6. Colonialism and the Making of Refugees in Africa -- 7. Postcolonial Politics, Wars, and African Refugee Problems -- 8. Internal Displacement in Africa -- Part III: Displaced Lives -- 9. Refugee Camps and Settlements in Africa
10. Urban Refugees -- 11. African Refugee Women: Gendering Policy and Protection -- 12. African Refugee Youth -- 13. Hope in Displacement: Refugees and Cultures of Creativity -- Part IV: Protection and Solutions -- 14. Refugee Protection and Management -- 15. Durable Solutions and the Crisis of Development -- 16. Home, Return, and Postrelocation -- Part V: Conclusion -- 17. Citizenship, Rights, and Development -- 18. The Future: Ending Africa's Refugee Crisis -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary "African Refugees is a comprehensive overview of the context, causes, and consequences of refugee's lives, discussing issues, policies, and solutions for African refugees around the world. It covers overarching topics such as human rights, policy frameworks, refugee protection, and durable solutions, as well as less-studied topics such as refugee youths, refugee camps, LGBTQ refugees, urban refugees, and refugee women. It also takes on rare but emergent topics such as citizenship and the creativity of African refugees. Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso showcase the voices and experiences of individual refugees through the sweep of history to tell the African refugee story from the long ago past through current developments, covering the full range of experience from the causes of flight to living in exile, all while maintaining a persistent focus on the complicated search for solutions. African Refugees recognizes African agency and contributions in pursuit of solutions for African refugees over time but avoids the pitfalls of the colonial gaze-where refugees are perpetually pathologized and Africa is always the sole cause of its own problems-seeking to complicate these narratives by recognizing African refugee issues within exploitative global, colonial, and neo-colonial systems of power"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Refugees -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Refugees -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Refugees -- Services for -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Forced migration -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Forced migration
Refugees
Refugees -- Services for
Refugees -- Social conditions
Sub-Saharan Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Yacob-Haliso, Olajumoke, author
LC no. 2022026944
ISBN 9780253064431
0253064430