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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.

Home Secretary Priti Patel & Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister Vincent Biruta hold asylum accord
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.

Participants in a program matching Ghanaian workers to jobs in Italy
Policy Briefs

Deepening Labor Migration Governance at a Time of Immobility: Lessons from Ghana and Senegal

The pandemic has dramatically curtailed labor migration opportunities in West Africa, as it has around the world. What does this mean for countries such as Ghana and Senegal that have been working to improve their governance of international labor migration? This brief explores the evolution of these countries’ migration policies, efforts to facilitate labor migration, and strategies to engage their diasporas.

Recent Activity

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
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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