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Africa (sub-Saharan)

Africa (sub-Saharan)

Beyond intraregional migration, sub-Saharan Africans migrate to North Africa, Europe, North America, and beyond. The research offered here focuses generally on two aspects of sub-Saharan migration: the outcomes for these migrants and their children once they have settled in their countries of destination, the United States among them, and the roles that diasporas and development policies can play in the economic improvement of these African nations.

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Reports

Migration and Displacement in Secondary Cities: Insights from Côte d’Ivoire and Uganda

Small and mid-sized cities are some of the fastest growing in many parts of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa. Yet life in these cities can present a variety of challenges for migrants and displaced persons. This report examines these challenges in secondary cities in Côte d’Ivoire and Uganda, and how local, national, and civil-society actors are working to address them.

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Policy Briefs

Green Reintegration: Supporting Returning Migrants in Climate-Affected Communities

Reintegration after return is often a challenge, and doubly so for migrants returning to communities affected by climate change and environmental degradation. This brief explores the emergence of "green" approaches to providing reintegration assistance, including project types implemented to date, common challenges, and strategies for building a stronger case for climate-responsive reintegration programming.

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Commentaries

The UK-Rwanda Agreement Represents Another Blow to Territorial Asylum

The United Kingdom’s controversial deal with Rwanda to relocate certain asylum seekers there—not for offshore processing for possible settlement in the United Kingdom but as a permanent destination—will have far-reaching implications, possibly destabilizing the norms and architecture of the post-World War II protection system, this commentary argues.

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Articles
September 1, 2004
Botswana's Changing Migration Patterns
By Kate Lefko-Everett
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Policy Briefs
July 2004
How Many People Have to Die Before We Care? The Role of the International Community in Darfur
By  Erin Patrick
Articles
May 1, 2004
Educating Refugees in Countries of First Asylum: The Case of Uganda
By Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Articles
August 1, 2003
War in Liberia Highlights Health Threats to Refugees
By Jennifer Schlecht
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Articles
August 1, 2003
Kenya: What Role for Diaspora in Development?
By Kenneth Okoth
Articles
August 1, 2003
West Africa's Refugee Crisis Spills Across Many Borders
By Jeff Drumtra
Articles
June 1, 2003
Refugee Diasporas, Remittances, Development, and Conflict
By Nicholas Van Hear
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Articles
November 1, 2002
Cape Verde: Towards the End of Emigration?
By Jørgen Carling

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Recent Activity

Articles
September 1, 2004

Liberia: The Challenges of Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Beverlee Bruce of the Social Science Research Council provides a field-based look at Liberia's post-conflict reconstruction.

Policy Briefs
July 2004

How Many People Have to Die Before We Care? The Role of the International Community in Darfur

This policy brief provides a background to the conflict and humanitarian situation in Darfur. While the situation in Darfur may not fit the definition of genocide in the traditional sense, the brief makes the case that semantics should not interfere with the international community’s obligation to protect civilians.

Articles
May 1, 2004

Educating Refugees in Countries of First Asylum: The Case of Uganda

The UN is collaborating with Uganda's government to open new doors to refugee education, according to Sarah Dryden-Peterson.
Articles
August 1, 2003

West Africa's Refugee Crisis Spills Across Many Borders

Policy analyst Jeff Drumtra maps out the devastating wars that are producing a flood of refugees in West Africa.
Articles
August 1, 2003

Kenya: What Role for Diaspora in Development?

Kenya is looking to its educated diaspora to meet development goals and achieve global competitiveness, according to MPI’s Ken Okoth.
Articles
August 1, 2003

War in Liberia Highlights Health Threats to Refugees

MPI's Jennifer Schlecht looks at the major dangers confronting the forcibly displaced through the lens of the Liberian conflict.
Articles
June 1, 2003

Refugee Diasporas, Remittances, Development, and Conflict

Nicholas Van Hear of the Institute for International Studies presents some of the distinct features of refugee diasporas, as well as their impact on development policy.

Articles
November 1, 2002

Cape Verde: Towards the End of Emigration?

Very few countries have experienced emigration on a scale approaching that of Cape Verde. Jorgen Carling of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) examines migration's effects on the country's past and present, as well as its implications for the future.

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