African Refugees, livre ebook

African Refugees is a comprehensive overview of the context, causes, and consequences of refugee 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 historical 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.

List of Illustrations
List of Acronyms
Maps
Preface
AcknowledgementsPart I: Context
1. Refugeehood in Africa
2. Refugee Studies
3. African Refugee Studies
4. Human Rights Instruments on African Refugees
5. States and Policy FrameworksPart II: Making Refugees
6. Colonialism and the Making of Refugees in Africa
7. Postcolonial Politics, Wars and African Refugee Problems
8. Internal Displacement in AfricaPart 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 CreativityPart IV: Protection and Solutions
14. Refugee Protection and Management
15. Durable Solutions and the Crisis of Development
16. Home, Return and PostrelocationPart V: Conclusion
17. Citizenship, Rights and Development
18. The Future: Ending Africa's Refugee Crisis
Bibliography
Index