Migration within Africa and Beyond

Whitaker, Beth

doi:10.1017/asr.2017.49

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“…Understanding the potential security threat of refugees is a major concern to conflict and migration scholars. Given the growing scale of the contemporary refugee crisis and increasing public backlash toward refugee communities around the world, this research question is also of political and policy relevance (UNHCR 2020;Whitaker 2017). Existing research largely contends that hosting refugees is associated with increased risk of conflict.…”

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Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis

Zhou

Shaver

2021

Am Polit Sci Rev

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A large literature suggests that the presence of refugees is associated with greater risk of conflict. We argue that the positive effects of hosting refugees on local conditions have been overlooked. Using global data from 1990 to 2018 on locations of refugee communities and civil conflict at the subnational level, we find no evidence that hosting refugees increases the likelihood of new conflict, prolongs existing conflict, or raises the number of violent events or casualties. Furthermore, we explore conditions where provinces are likely to experience substantively large decreases in conflict risk due to increased development. Analysis examining nighttime lights as a measure of development, coupled with expert interviews, support our claim. To address the possibility of selection bias, we use placebo tests and matching. Our research challenges assertions that refugees are security risks. Instead, we show that in many cases, hosting refugees can encourage local development and even conflict reduction.

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Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis

Zhou

Shaver

2021

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…The emergence of rural villages as ritual anchors that are regularly visited by itinerant migrants renders analyses of inclusion in community rituals all the more significant (Piot ; Kane ; Whitehouse ; Whitaker ). I suggest that the diffused residence of kin, colleagues, and neighbors across regional economic centers has increased the stakes of distribution in ritual ceremonies.…”

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Ritual Contingency: Teasing and the Politics of Participation

Sweet

2019

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article analyzes the naming ceremony of a young girl in a village in southeastern Senegal to show how kola nuts distributed during the course of such rituals provide material channels through which individuals managed inclusion across participation frameworks. Even for those not in attendance, distributed kola co-constituted states of participation and witnessing, in which recipients could subsequently report about such events as ratified authorities. After being excluded from this naming ceremony, a woman performed a teasing nickname of the child to be named, which was subsequently voiced throughout the community as a form of dissent. Such routines of teasing offer forms of value transformation in which individuals could redirect and recontextualize material objects, and in so doing, articulate claims to community inclusion and participation. Lifetime events offer contexts in which increasingly dispersed social networks evaluate participation and community membership. Although teasing has often been offered in general terms as a form of resistance, an interdiscursive, material analysis has the capacity to show how it serves as a form of social power and value transformation. [ritual, teasing, naming, materiality, interdiscursivity]

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“…This increase in refugee population poses great problems to the continent and the globe at large. These may include health problems in varying diversities (Castaneda et al, 2017), bans on refugee as experienced by the Trump-led administration when he blocked refugees from all countries including three in Africa (Libya, Somalia, Sudan) (Pfortmueller et al, 2012;Whitaker, 2017) and other varying forms of antiimmigrant hostility (Balakian, 2016;Salehyan, 2008;Whitaker, 2016). Examples are the Xenophobia rise in South Africa resulting in violence against Somalis amongst others, the Tanzania government expelling more than half of its Rwandans refugee and the case of the Botswana government refusal to grant refugee status to asylum seekers (Charman, 2012;Kamanga, 2005;Nyamnjoh, 2002;Whitaker, 2017).…”

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Trends and Drivers of Refugees in Africa

Adesina

Adeel

Omigbile³

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EUROPEAN J ENV PUBLI

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Increase in refugees' population poses great political, socio-economic and health challenges to Africa. This study aims to discuss the trends and drivers of refugees in African countries based on their country of origin. Methods:This study utilized secondary data on the population of refugees in all African countries from 1990 to 2017 based on their countries of origin. The data utilized were compiled by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) and analysed using Microsoft Excel 2019, IBM SPSS 25 and Adobe Photoshop CS6.

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Migration within Africa and Beyond

Cited by 19 publications

References 53 publications

Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis

Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis

Ritual Contingency: Teasing and the Politics of Participation

Trends and Drivers of Refugees in Africa

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