Migration and Displacement in Africa
Social Exclusion, Intergenerational Healing, and Communal Restoration

Contributions by Abdul Karim Bangura,Emmanuel Vincent Nelson Kallon,Cecy Edijala Balogun,Seun Bamidele,Julius Niringiyimana,Adedeji Adediran Ogungbola,Ihuoma Okechukwu,Somtochukwu J. Metu,Adebimpe Desire Fashina

ISBN13: 9781666970944

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Published: 11/12/2025

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Description
This collection examines various types of displacement, reasons for migration, and rebuilding after forced migration in Africa. In Migration and Displacement in Africa: Social Exclusion, Intergenerational Healing, and Communal Restoration, Abdul Karim Bangura and the contributors provide an interdisciplinary analysis of the nexus between migration and displacement. Over the past decades, climate change, globalization, technology, and governance on the continent has changed significantly, impacting communities as well as individuals and contributing to changes in both voluntary and forced migration. In this volume, the contributors unpack recent developments in migration studies. They discuss the legacies of colonialism and neocolonialism, climate change displacement, environmental migration, religious-orientation as motivation for migration, LGBTQIA+ displacement, homelessness, and displacement due to violence and public health emergencies. They examine migrant identity reconstruction, how Sankofa relates to migration and displacement, communal restoration after forced migration, COVID-19 and its impact on migrants, migration as represented in literature, the migration of youth, and bridging distances using digital technology. Bangura and the contributors argue that understanding migration and displacement in Africa requires a multifaceted approach which this collection uses to highlight the complex nature of migration and displacement issues today. This book is suitable for scholars, professors, students, and policy makers in African studies and other social and behavioral sciences.
List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Abdul Karim Bangura Chapter 1: Chibundu Onuzo’s Sankofa and Dual Stance of Migration and Identity Reconstruction Somtochukwu J. Metu and Ihuoma Okechukwu Chapter 2: Empty Villages, Empty Food Baskets: The Rural-Urban Migration Story of Africa Cecy Edijala Balogun Chapter 3: Communal Restoration and Varied Encounters in Forced Migration: An Ubuntu Perspective Adebimpe Desire Fashina Chapter 4: COVID-19 Pandemic, Livelihoods, and Copying Strategies among the Batwa Minority Communities in Uganda Julius Niringiyimana Chapter 5: Intersecting Exclusions: Queer Migrations, Queer Displacements, and Queer Dislocations Pamela Anyango Oloo Chapter 6: Enhancing Post-traumatic Growth through the Recounting of Trauma Narratives Adebimpe Desire Fashina Chapter 7: Climate Mobility in East Africa and the Great Horn of Africa Chris A. Shisanya Chapter 8: Weak Institutions, Deneocoloniality, and Youth Migration Emmanuel Vincent Nelson Kallon Chapter 9: Navigating Complexity: Migration Dynamics within Africa Seun Bamidele Chapter 10: Migration and Displacement in Nigerian Drama: Focus on Soji Cole’s Embers and Ahmed Yerima’s Jakadiya Beatrice Nwawuloke Onuoha Chapter 11: Technology and Pre-teen Migrants' Feeling of Belonging: Bridging Distances Digitally Adebimpe Desire Fashina and Adedeji Adediran Ogungbola Index
  • Society & social sciences
  • Migration, immigration & emigration
  • Professional & Vocational
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