AFRICAS

Africa

The long tail of European colonialism still looms large over many migration debates. The well-trodden themes of movement from poor to rich countries, from the global south to the global north, continue to be central to global debates on migration. But there is growing recognition of the importance of other mobilities among the countries of the global south, not least within the African continent, and between Africa and other regions. Moreover the middle income countries of so-called ‘Rising Africa’ – as well as the continent’s conflict-ridden and economically and environmentally degraded territories — are increasingly key to the emergent multi-centred global migration system. COMPAS has applied its inter-disciplinary approach to understanding African migrations on individual, community, national, regional and global scales. Our research has looked at the practices, relationships, institutions and networks that shape experiences of life on the move, as well as the outcomes of migration within, to and from Africa from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Blog Posts

The Marooned Malaise: Covid-19 and Africa’s stolen futures

Loren B Landau

Here we cope, here we observe, here we think and think together: a response to Robin Cohen

Biao Xiang

‘Take me home’: The coronavirus virus and panic mobility

Robin Cohen

COMPAS Round Up Summer 2017

COMPAS communications team

New migrant urbanisms and the United Nations Habitat III conference in Quito

Michael Keith, Nicholas Simcik Arese & Andreza De Souza Santos

Sophie’s journey: Three countries, three stories, same abuse

Emel Coşkun

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2016

COMPAS Communications

Mediterranean Migration Crisis – Mixed Policies, Mixed Results

COMPAS Communications

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2015

COMPAS Communications

Illegality vs Irregularity

COMPAS Communications

Sex discrimination and UK immigration law

Catherine Briddick

Italy’s oldest and newest migrants: Challenges for second generation Somalis

Giulia Liberatore

Twenty years later the refugees are back

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Centering orality: Exploring gendered wartime violence with South Sudanese women elders

Sara Maher

Book Review: The Securitization of Migration and Refugee Women

Angelo Tramountanis

Reflections on African Pentecostals in London and the ‘political’

COMPAS Communications

Books

Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain

Giulia Liberatore

Becoming the Other, Being Oneself: Constructing Identities in a Connected World

Iain Walker

Reports

The Great Migration: Urban Aspirations

Michael Keith

European Security Challenges. EU-US Immigration Systems

COMPAS Communications

Clandestino: Ethical Issues in Irregular Migration Research

Franck Düvell, Bastian Vollmer, Anna Triandafyllidou

Informal Remittance Systems in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries: Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-DRC) and Republic of Congo (Congo) Country Study

Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga

Informal Remittance Systems in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries: Fiji Country Study

Robert Norton

Informal Remittance Systems in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries: Ghana Country Study

Adam Higazi

Informal Remittance Systems in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries: Senegal Country Study

Barbara Jettinger

Informal Remittance Systems in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries: Somalia Country Study

Anna Lindley

Informal Remittance Systems in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries: Sudan Country Study

Stephanie Riak Akuei

Informal Remittance Systems in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries: Surinam Country Study

Mies van Niekerk

Informal Remittance Systems in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries: Synthesis Study

Nicholas Van Hear,Frank Pieke, Anna Lindley

Journal Articles

The evolution of migration trajectories of sub-Saharan African migrants in Turkey and Greece: The role of changing social networks and critical events

Franck Düvell, Valentina Mazzucato & Marieke Wissinka

The impact of refugee experiences on education: evidence from Burundi

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Sonja Fransen & Melissa Siegel

Towards a new politics of migration?

COMPAS Communications

Visions of Refugia: Territorial and transnational solutions to mass displacement

Robin Cohen & Nicholas Van Hear

Diasporas and conflict: Distance, contiguity and spheres of engagement

Nicholas Van Hear & Robin Cohen

“We are Sitting on a Time Bomb”: A Multiperspectival Approach to Inter-National Development at an East African Border

William Allen

The Labor Market Consequences of Hosting Refugees

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Isabel Ruiz

Beyond Control? The mechanics and Dynamics of ‘Informal’ Remittances Between Europe and Africa

Nicholas Van Hear,Frank Pieke, Anna Lindley

Working Papers

Chiefs, Migrants and the State: Mobility in the Ghana-Togo Borderlands

Nathalie Raunet

Understanding the Aspiration to Stay: A Case Study of Young Adults in Senegal

Kerilyn Schewel

Belonging on the Move: The Question of Clan Amongst Somali Migrants

Farhan Samanani

How to Understand the Outcomes of Migration Policy? A Study of the Return Agreement Between Norway and Ethiopia

Cathrine Eide

Fragile Convivialities: Everyday Living Together in Two Stateless but Diverse Regions, Catalonia and Casamance

Tilmann Heil

Between Courting and Controlling: The Moroccan State and ‘Its’ Emigrants

Hein de Haas

Libyan Nationals in the United Kingdom: Geo-political Considerations and Trends in Asylum and Return

Brad Blitz

The Early Morning Phonecall: Remittances From a Refugee Diaspora Perspective

Anna Lindley

The Role of Transnational Networks and Legal Status in Securing a Living: Ghanaian Migrants in The Netherlands

Valentina Mazzucato

How to Balance Rights and Responsibilities on Asylum at the EU’s Southern Border of Italy and Libya

Richard Allen

States of Insecurity: Consequences of Saharan Transit Migration

Michael Collyer

The Externalisation of EU Asylum Policy: The Position of African States

Alexander Betts, James Milner

The Political Importance of Diasporas

COMPAS Communications

“I Went As Far As My Money Would Take Me”: Conflict, Forced Migration and Class

Nicholas Van Hear

Policy Options for Increasing the Benefits of Remittances

Jørgen Carling

Skilled Health Professionals’ Migration and its Impact on Health Delivery in Zimbabwe

Abel Chikanda

The Epidemiology of Migration and AIDS in South Africa

Mark Lurie

Other Publications

World Migration Report chapter

Media Reporting of Migrants and Migration

William Allen, Rob McNeil and COMPAS Communications

LAMFOR Policy Briefing 1

The Consequences of Refugee Return

Carlos Vargas-Silva

LAMFOR Policy Briefing 2

The Consequences of Hosting Refugees

Carlos Vargas-Silva

LAMFOR Policy Briefing 3

Conflict, Displacement and Education

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Photo essay

The London-Hargeysa connection: Diaspora engagement in Somaliland

Giulia Liberatore & Kate Stanworth

Projects

A Passport Home: The significance of belonging in the Comoros, Zanzibar, the UK and France

COMPAS Communications | August 2009 - July 2011

Aligning Migration Management and the Migration–Development Nexus (MIGNEX)

Carlos Vargas-Silva | 2018 - 2023

Converging cultures: The Hadrami diaspora in the Indian Ocean

COMPAS Communications | 2011-2013

Counting the Uncountable: Data and Trends across Europe – Irregular Migration in the UK (Clandestino)

COMPAS Communications | September 2007 - August 2009

Diaspora Engagement in War-Torn Societies

Nicholas Van Hear | January 2011 – December 2015

Eumagine: Imagining Europe from the Outside. The Cases of Ukraine, Turkey, Senegal and Morocco

COMPAS Communications | 2010 – 2013

PEAK Urban

Michael Keith, Mikal Mast, Rosaleen Cunningham, Bhawani Buswala and ChengHe Guan | 1 October 2017 - 31 December 2021

Relative Distance: Kinship, Generation, and Reproduction between Kenya and the United Kingdom

COMPAS Communications | 2008 - 2013

Social Externalities: China, India, Africa

Michael Keith | 2010 - 2011

The Labour Market Impacts of Forced Migration (LAMFOR)

Carlos Vargas-Silva | June 2013 – December 2015

Urban Transformations Coordination

Michael Keith, Mikal Mast and Nathan Grassi | 2015 - 2019