Refugees in African History

CALL FOR CHAPTERS – New edited collection on LGBTQI+ displacement in and from East Africa

Dear Refugees in African History Community, please see below an announcement shared by the IASFM about a list of Forced Migration Studies Networks that they are working on. To see the most updated version, please follow the link below:

Dear IASFM members and forced migration studies community

Since the early 1990s, political, social and economic instability in East Africa,¹  including long-running conflicts in Sudan, S

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Call for Interests

Workshop on African Forced Migration Research in Germany

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Recently, there has been a proliferation of representations of refugees, asylum seekers and irregular migrants waiting at land, sea as well as air border crossings headed towards Europe. These groups are often framed in highly emotive language that associates them with threats, or portrayed as either tragic or miserable, or as the exemplary citizen. There has also been an increase in emphasis on normative concepts such as ‘safe, orderly and regular migration’ in contemporary migration debates and policies; over and above already established ones such as ‘integration’.

CFP: Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th-21st centuries

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