The number of African migrants attempting to enter Europe has increased. In Europe, North African migrants are being accused of increased involvement in Islamic fundamentalism and terrorist activities after attacks on Madrid and London. Such terrorist attacks have become an urgent security concern for the European Union (EU) forcing the EU to make migration a security policy. The essays focus on: the extent to which the EU is threatened by patterns of African crisis; Africa's peace, security and development initiatives; current migration flows from Africa to Europe; and, the challenges and prospects of a comprehensive EU strategy for Africa. Index, 186pp, UK. ASHGATE.

Proceedings of a conference held in 2007 in Tripoli, Libya. Argues for the need for a shift away from the blame-game which has characterised the brain drain debate for many years to a more constructive engagement with the African Diaspora, as a means for African higher educational institutions to tap this African intellectual resource. 144pp, GHANA. ASSOCIATION OF AFRICAN UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Documents the experiences of Ghanaian communities in North America as a case study of the new African migration. The rapid increase in the number of Ghanaians lawfully admitted as permanent residents since 1980 offers an opportunity to investigate their immigrant journeys, their membership in the larger society and the expression of their individual and collective social identities. Using original empirical data from the US and Canada as well as comparative material from the UK and the Netherlands, the author also investigates the relationship between these new African migrants and the native-born African diaspora in the US. Index, bib, 210pp, UK. ASHGATE.

What differentiates emigration from exile? This book delves theoretically and practically into this core question of population movements. Tracing the shifts of Africans into and out of Equatorial Guinea, it explores a small former Spanish colony in central Africa. Throughout its history, many inhabitants of Equatorial Guinea were forced to leave, whether because of the slave trade of the early nineteenth century or the political upheavals of the twentieth century. Michael Ugarte examines the writings of Equatorial Guinean exiles and migrants, considering the underlying causes of such moves and arguing that the example of Equatorial Guinea is emblematic of broader dynamics of cultural exchange in a postcolonial world. 224pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS.

An active blogger on The Zeleza Post, from which these essays are drawn, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza provides a critical engagement with Africa's multiple worlds. With a blend of erudition and lively style, Zeleza writes about the role of Africa and Africans in the world and the interaction of the world with Africa. In the title essay, Zeleza analyses the significance of the election of a member of the African diaspora to the presidency of the United States. He also addresses Africas urgent political concerns: China's role in Africa, South Africa's difficulties in making the transition to a postapartheid society, the agony of Zimbabwe, and a discussion of Pan-Africanism, its history and contemporary challenges. Other posts introduce the reader to the rhythms of daily life, including football and other leisure activities, in capturing the different aspects of Africa. 240pp, UK. AYEBIA.

The compelling story of how Britain has been settled and influenced by continuous waves of migration from across the world. Beginning with the first migrations from Europe over 25,000 years ago, the author narrates the history of the Jewish communities sponsored by William the Conqueror, the Dutch elite, the Huguenots, the vast immigration from Ireland, Poland, Germany and Russia that fuelled the Industrial Revolution and the tumultuous arrival of travellers from India, Africa, China and the Caribbean during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Index, bib, notes, xii, 403pp, UK. LITTLE BROWN.

A collection of essays which look at the problems of forced migration in Southern Africa focusing on refugees and asylum seekers. Notes, refs, xiv, 211pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICA INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA, 079830152X

2003 Paperback

This volume intends to overcome simplistic views on migration and the shortcomings of a push and pull-factor analysis. Instead, the perspective of the migrants themselves orients the approach of cultures of migration. In this view, migration becomes a complex issue, and motives and acceptance of migration appear to be a matter of negotiations, in the migrants' societies of origin and in the host societies as well. 296pp, GERMANY. LIT VERLAG.

2007 9783825806682 Paperback

The book deals with two types of African diasporas, the first of which originated in the migration histories of the Indian Ocean and brought new groups into Africa. This is illustrated by case studies of Hadrami communities in Sudan and Zanzibar, and the Malay community in Cape Town, that produced trade links as well as processes of Islamization. The second type originated with the failing African states and cases discussed are an Eritrean diaspora in Germany, alongside Sudanese diasporas in Norway and the USA, and a Somali diaspora in Norway. 240pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE.

Focusing on the 1990s, Veney compares Kenya and Tanzania, two nations that did not generate many refugees, but become important hosts for the general region. Veney argues that the restrictive refugee policies that were adopted in Tanzania and Kenya were a direct product of liberalization and democratization, the result of two nations forced to clarify their refugee policies at a time of immense internal political and socioeconomic transformation. 304pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Asylum related issues are never far from the news and are becoming increasingly politicized. This is the first comprehensive guide to the issues involved in the internationalization of EU policy a subject which is difficult to track because developments are taking place very fast, not always transparently, and with a mixture of threats and opportunities for asylum seekers. It interweaves EU analysis with original research into refugee realities in three countries (Sri Lanka, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Tanzania), drawing lessons from the conditions in each of these and bringing in the voices of refugees, returnees, and internally displaced persons who are so often excluded from the debate. Bib, notes, 144pp, UK. OXFAM PUBLICATIONS.

Both a personal and social history of the migratory tracks that have gone into creating the contemporary identities that form our society today and an unflinching reminder of what it is to be an outsider. The narratives poignantly depict the twin mechanism of loss and hope faced by newcomers to these shores, as they simultaneously search for ways to hold onto memories of lives no longer lived and in turn inhabit new ways of being. Importantly the refugee experience is shown to be multifarious, not simply in its involvement of different races and nationalities but in the attitudes and reactions of those involved. Gratitude and admiration for British democracy and cultural diversity is mixed with pain at the racism and ignorance encountered integrating into the country. Includes essays by people from Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Somalia. 256pp, UK. ARCADIA.

This report draws on 150 in depth interviews to portray the plight of refugees living in the capital cities of Kenya and Uganda. Nationals of neighbouring states affected by wars often live on the streets, at the mercy of the army, police and criminals, and with little support from aid agencies. They suffer from harassment, extortion, arbitrary arrest, detention, beatings and /or sexual violence. 208pp, USA. AFRICA WATCH/HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, 1564322815

Now in paperback. In this excellent account of the challenges faced by refugees, Moorehead has interviewed, among others, emigration officers in Australia, members of the United Nations, and social workers in Newcastle. She follows the fortunes of 57 young Liberians fleeing ethnic cleansing. She travels to Afghanistan, where efugees are returning, and to the Arctic Circle where resettled Sudanese Dinka families live, struggling with the darkness and the Finnish language. In this account of the worldwide refugee crisis, Moorehead asks if there is a differ-ence between asylum seekers and economic migrants and what happens when applications are turned down. She also investigates struggles faced by those displaced in their own countries by persecution and civil war and looks at the $7 billion a year trade in humans. Index, sources, 352pp, UK. VINTAGE.

In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing studies have emphasized economic motivation as the primary factor triggering African migration, this volume treats a range of issues: economic, socio-political, pedagogical, developmental, and cultural. Organized with a multidisciplinary thrust in mind, this book argues that any discussion of African migration, whether internal or external, must be conceived as only one aspect of a more complex, organic, and global patterning of flux and reflux necessitated by constantly shifting dynamics of world socio-economic, cultural, and political order. 404pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Addresses the main issues surrounding international migration from an African perspective. It assesses migration as a global phenomenon and considers African migration in all of its dimensions: within, from and to Africa. Also addresses the crucial political issue of migration management in regional perspectives and considers the crucial issue of the brain drain along with the role of the diaspora and international remittances to African economies. 264pp, GHANA. SUB-SAHARAN PUBLISHERS.

This very short introduction looks at the global phenomenon of human migration - both legal and illegal - to reveal that migration actually presents opportunities that must be taken advantage of in light of the current economic climate. The author debunks myths such as the claim that migrants take jobs away from local workers, and that they take advantage of the health care system and western living conditions without returning any benefits of their own, and reveals that society as we now know it can not function without them. Index, b/w photos, 140pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Gives a name and a face to the thousands of anonymous African street vendors in cities across Europe. Through the voice of a thinly veiled first-person narrator, Pap Khouma offers us a chilling, intimate, and often ironic glimpse into the life of an illegal immigrant. Khouma invents a life for himself as an itinerant trader of carved elephants, small ivories, and other African trinkets, struggling to maintain courage and dignity in the face of despair and humiliation. Constantly on the run from the authorities, he finds insight into the vicissitudes of law and politics, the constraints of citizenship, national borders, skin colour, and the often paralysing difficulties of obtaining basic human needs. Edited by Oreste Pivetta, translated from the Italian by Rebecca Hopkins and with a foreword by Graziella Parati. 158pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A cross national perspective on African immigration into Europe. BNS, 230pp, UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS, 1754618986

A joint effort led by the African Development Bank and the World Bank, this is the first comprehensive publication on harnessing migration, remittances, and other diaspora resources for the development of Africa. It comes at a time when countries in Africa and elsewhere are grappling with difficult choices on how to manage migration. Index, bib, tables, figs, 212pp, USA. WORLD BANK PUBLICATIONS.

Seeks to establish a background for understanding the complex and dynamic linkages between urbanisation, migration, HIV/Aids and urban food security in Southern and Eastern Africa. The linkages between HIV/Aids and urban food security are particularly less well established, and in documenting them here, the authors simultaneously link them with migration, the first to examine these dynamics at a regional level. 64pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA.

An analysis of the causes and consequences of displacement, arguing for more international intervention. The authors also elaborate on legal and institutional mechanisms for responding to displacement and providing support and assistance to displaced people. Preface by Kofi Annan. Index, notes, app, map, xxi, 414pp, USA. BROOKINGS.

Fourteen specialists from across the European Union discuss current issues regarding Middle Eastern and North African immigrants in Europe, focusing on topics such as immigration legislation, assimilation, integration, multiculturalism, community formation, citizenship, political participation, and religious and cultural identities. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Immigrants and Minorities. Index, 296pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Migration has been an integral aspect of the labour markets across much of Africa for at least the last century, cutting across class and skill boundaries. It represents an important livelihood strategy for poor households, but is also characteristic of the better off, including many African elites. Understanding is slowly emerging of the potentially positive role that migration can play in reducing poverty and mobilising the African diaspora in development. This first title in a series provides an overview of the complex political and economic issues at stake around the migration phenomenon in the twenty-first century. 160pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA.

A collection of essays on historical, medical and mortality subjects related to the Caribbean and Africa. BNS 360pp. UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS, 0860783340

Africans arriving by rickety fishing boats to the Canary Islands, risking the passage across the Straits of Gibraltar or washed up on the Italian island of Lampedusa are familiar examples of the recent growth in migration from Africa to Europe. There is a dark side of migration in human trafficking, but the picture of a continent on the move also includes highly skilled professionals from Nigeria and Ghana who seek employment in universities and other professions in South Africa. On the positive side migrant remittances are a major source of income in many sub-Saharan African countries, helping to sustain the lives of poor home communities. A major challenge now facing sub-Saharan Africa is how to attract skilled emigrants back for national development. 70pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE.

A wide ranging survey tracing the connections brought between regions by the movements of people, diseases, crops, technology and ideas. The author discusses the earliest human migrations, rise and spread of the major language groups, ancient trade patterns including the Silk Route and the Indian Ocean maritime trade, and the effects of migration on empire and industry between 1700 and 1900. Each chapter concludes with a guide for further reading. Index, maps, ix, 193pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Deals with the complexity, variety and experience of all the forms of mobility we witness today in Sub-Saharan Africa. Tables, notes, refs, x, 214pp, NETHERLANDS. EJ BRILL, 9004120726

Establishes the centrality of human migration and movement to the evolution of African societies. Using oral, archaeological, and written sources, and focusing on various geographical areas, the contributors show that migration is a multifaceted phenomenon, historically varied in nature and character. 332pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER PRESS.

A collection of work which looks at new waves of immigration, particularly in the last twenty years, from Africa to the USA, Northern Europe and the UK. BNS, 200pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE, 0415309492

Unravels some of the bizarre and brutal paradoxes of international migration, explaining the economic and social issues, and arguing for more rational approaches to immigration. Tables, boxes, bib, index, 144pp, UK. NEW INTERNATIONALIST.

The militarization of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), especially in Africa, is causing growing alarm within the humanitarian and development communities. The planned and spontaneous arming of refugees and IDPs threatens access to asylum as well as protection. But while the policy debates rage over how to deal with armed refugees and how to prevent their spill-over into neighbouring countries, surprisingly little research has been done to explain why displaced people arm themselves or how militarization affects the local and host populations. This book traces the experience of refugee and IDP militarization in four African countries emerging from or affected by war: Guinea, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. It considers the effects of such militarization on regional, national, and human security, and reflects on the responses of hosting governments and humanitarian organizations. Index, 261pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

Tells the stories of three children from Somalia, Sudan and Ethiopia who were forced to become refugees. The stories are told in words and the children's own paintings. Full colour 64pp, UK. EVANS PUBLISHING GROUP.

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Brings together a group of refugees, scholars, activists, and professionals to discuss the very important matter of African refugees. This book also includes his own autobiographical contribution providing more details of his experience as a refugee at the Kakuma Camp, in northeast Kenya. Tasew's contribution is heartfelt, blunt and revealing. 258pp, USA. RED SEA PRESS.

Combines theoretical discussion on the role of networks, resources and social capital in the UK with fieldwork evidence and interviews with members of RCOs, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and statutory authorities. It critically examines the impact of dispersal and current legislative change on refugee communities and RCOs; explores the integrative role of RCOs; assesses the race relations framework in Britain and its effects on refugee organisations; provides a thorough and up-to-date literature review. Index, bib, 246pp, UK. POLICY PRESS.

Argues that of the over 33 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world today, a disproportionate percentage are found in Africa. Most have been driven from their homes by armed strife, displacing people into settings that fail to meet standards for even basic human dignity. Protection of the human rights of these people is highly uncertain and unpredictable. Many refugee service agencies agree advocacy on behalf of the displaced is a key aspect of their task. But those working in the field are so pressed by urgent crises that they can rarely analyse the requirements of advocacy systematically. Yet advocacy must go beyond interna-tional law to human rights as an ethical standard to prevent displaced people from falling through the cracks of a conflicted world. Drawing on David Hollenbach's work as founder and director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College, this collection attempts to provide an analytical framework for vigorous advocacy on behalf of refugees and internally displaced people. Index, 264pp, USA. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS.

How can we understand the plight of refugees in Africa? Why are refugees now spending an average of 17 years in exile? Why have African states required refugees to remain in isolated and insecure camps? This book answers these questions by examining the history and politics of asylum in Africa and the response of key African states to the mass arrival and prolonged presence of refugees. By situating the question of refugees within the broader context of African politics, it outlines the broad range of factors that influence the asylum policies of African states. 256pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

This volume resulted from an interdisciplinary, intellectual exchange on the significant role and place of religion in the context of African migration studies. Contributors from the fields of history of religion, sociology, anthropology, history, geography, missiology, migration and diaspora draw on fieldwork in Germany, the United Kingdom, Norway, the USA, Israel, and Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt) to show the interconnectedness of religion, migration and globalization. 250pp, GERMANY. BAYREUTH AFRICAN STUDIES.

Remittances sent by African migrants have become an important source of external finance for countries in the Sub-Saharan African region. In many African countries, these flows are larger than foreign direct investment and portfolio debt and equity flows. In some cases, they are similar in size to official aid from multilateral and bilateral donors. Remittance markets in Africa, however, remain less developed than other regions. The share of informal or unrecorded remittances is among the highest for Sub-Saharan African countries. Remittance costs tend to be significantly higher in Africa both for sending remittances from outside the region and for within-Africa (South-South) remittance corridors. At the same time, the remittance landscape in Africa is rapidly changing with the introduction of new remittance technologies, in particular mobile money transfers and branchless banking. This book presents findings of surveys of remittance service providers conducted in eight Sub-Saharan African countries and in three key destination countries. It looks at issues relating to costs, competition, innovation and regulation, and discusses policy options for leveraging remittances for development in Africa. Tables, figs, 352pp, USA. WORLD BANK PUBLICATIONS.

For over a century Ireland was a source of emigrants to other parts of the world - now it has become an attractive destination for immigrants. The first study of the religious life of African immigrants in Ireland. 302pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Refugees and asylum seekers are rarely out of the headlines in the UK, but only rarely do people in exile have the opportunity to speak for themselves. This anthology of prose, poetry and essays brings together scores of writers originating in countries as diverse as Algeria and Zimbabwe, Somalia and Angola. Includes essays about being writers and readers in exile. These articles range from the difficulties in holding on to traditional rural imagery in a place so far from home through to the identity of a whole generation of young writers whose lives have been entirely spent away from their countries of origin. 325pp, UK. FIVE LEAVES PUBLICATIONS.

Transnational social spaces have emerged in recent years as a research area within migration and area studies. This volume is about African social spaces with examples from Central and Western Africa as well as of African-European relations. Index, 248pp, GERMANY. LIT VERLAG.

Comparative study examining the experience and identity of ndividuals in two refugee groups living in London. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the central concern is the degree to which the individual refugee experience is determined by broader political and cultural processes which occur between the boundaries of home and the country of settlement. Figs, app, bib, index, 230pp, UK. ASHGATE, 0754617017

2002 Hardback

Provides an overview of key recent developments related to internal and cross-border dis-placement of people throughout the world. Produced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the book focuses on issues occurring since the last edition of the series in 2000. Recent years have seen a decline in the number of refugees, partly due to large-scale returns to Afghanistan and Angola, among others. Nonetheless, the majority of refugee situations remain protracted with no prospects for durable solutions in sight, such as the Bhutanese in Nepal, the Western Saharans in Algeria and the Somalis in various host countries. 340pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Hundreds of thousands of people living in Africa find themselves non-persons in the only state they have ever known. Because they are not recognised as citizens, they cannot get their children registered at birth or entered in school or university; they cannot access state health services; they cannot obtain travel documents, or employment without a work permit; and if they leave the country they may not be able to return. Ultimately such policies can lead to economic and political disaster, or even war. The conflicts in both Côte d'Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of Congo have had at their hearts the very right of one part of the national population to share with others on equal terms the rights and duties of citizenship. This book brings together new material from across Africa of the most egregious examples of citizenship discrimination, and makes the case for urgent reform of the law. Index, notes, 198pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

Glynis Clacherty became involved with a group of refugee children who had arrived in Johannesburg without parents, friends or family from countries of Africa that had been torn apart by civil wars and coups. As a way of helping them deal with the trauma of their flight and their arrival in a strange, sometimes hostile adoptive country, she brought together a number of second-hand suitcases and gave them to the children to paint their personal stories and recent histories. 184pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DOUBLE STOREY BOOKS.

MATATU: Journal for African Culture and Society No. 36. The swelling flows of migration from Africa towards Europe have aroused interest not only in the socio-political consequences of the migrants' insistent appeals to 'fortress Europe' but also in the artistic integration of African migrants into the cultural world of Europe. While in recent years the creative output of Africans living in Europe has received attention from the media and in academia, little critical consideration has been given to African migrants' modes of narration and the manner in which these modes give expression to, or are an expression of, their creators' transcultural realities. This volume responds to this need for reflection by examining the manner in which migrants compose and negotiate their Euro-African affiliations in their narratives. The book brings together scholars in the fields of literary and art criticism, cultural studies, and anthropology for an extensive interdisciplinary exchange on the specific modes of narration displayed in Euro-African literatures, the visual arts, and cinema, as well as offering ethnographic case studies. 442pp, NETHERLANDS. RODOPI.

The end of the cold war and the loosening grip of superpower influence resulted in the prolifera-tion of political, ethnic and religious rivalries. Border disputes, civil war and ethnic conflicts contributed to a decade of widespread forced displacement of people. Sadako Ogata was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1990 to 2000. In this, her first-hand account of her UN experience, she focuses on the scene of four crises in which she directed relief: Northern Iraq, the Balkans, the African Great Lakes region and Afghanistan. Foreword by Kofi Annan. Maps, illus, 402pp, USA. NORTON.

Analyses how and why refugees, victims of insecurity caused by persecution and the many incessant conflicts which continue unabated, have come to be viewed by scholars and practitioners as security threats. Using Kenya and Tanzania as empirical case studies, this volume examines the nature of this threat, its projection and responses. Moreover, it highlights how, if at all, these threats are different or similar to other security threats faced by these countries. 204pp, UK. ASHGATE.

How does Africa stand on migration? As the world's poorest continent, Africa is seeing an increasing number of its citizens migrate from its rural sector to its cities and to new overseas destinations. In spite of new policy thinking from the African Union, African countries have not yet fully prioritised the migration issue in their public policy or through their shared institutions. Identifying this gap, the African Migration Alliance - a new network of policy researchers for the continent - has held an international workshop to ask the question: What are Africa's policy concerns on migration? In intriguing new research papers, the leading migration scholars of the continent give their views on new destinations, free movement of peoples, xenophobia, human trafficking and other migration issues, as they outline public priorities and work toward guide-lines for future African migration policies. 291pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL.

Highlights the ways in which refugees' freedom of expression is curbed by host countries, and concludes with recommendations for the UNHCR. A4 format, 43pp, UK. ARTICLE 19, 1902598385

Millions of refugees have returned home: these essays based on fieldwork look at their experiences, essays from the Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Algeria, Chad and Ghana. General introductory essay and conclusion. Bibliography, index. 320pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Traces the link between globalization and world migrations, and shows how new forms of struggle and a new global working class are coming into being. Notes, bib, index, xii, 402pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS. 0865439214