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‘Sword in the water’: local peoples’ perceptions of NGOs in eastern DRC

In this blog, Sylvie Imata and Godefroid Muzalia, who work at Groupe d'Etudes sur les Conflits et la Sécurité Humaine (GEC-SH) - a Central & East Africa Regional Hub partner organisation - explore how humanitarian actors, including NGOs, can be aware of and sensitive to the needs and perceptions of…

Central and East Africa Hub

Sylvie Imata, Godefroid Muzalia

24 Oct 2023

Infographic

Crisis in Sudan: Note on displacement from Sudan to South Sudan

This infographic summarises the insights from a recent briefing note on displacement due to the crisis in Sudan.

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2023

Briefing

Crisis in Sudan: Briefing note on displacement from Sudan to South Sudan

This Key Considerations brief focuses on the historical and socio-political dynamics humanitarian agencies need to consider when providing assistance to South Sudanese fleeing Khartoum and other parts of Sudan to South Sudan, and to Sudanese fleeing Sudan to South Sudan.

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2023

Research paper

Youth, sin and sex in Nigeria: Christianity and HIV/AIDS-related beliefs and behaviour among rural-urban migrants

In Nigeria, popular understandings of HIV/AIDS and individual risk assessment and behaviour unfold within an interpretative grid that draws on a religious moral framework. This paper reports results from a two‐year study of HIV/AIDS‐related beliefs and behaviour among adolescent and…

West Africa Hub

2004

Research paper

Xenophobia’s Contours During an Ebola Epidemic: Proximity and the Targeting of Peul Migrants in Senegal

This article examines the effect of geographical proximity on targeting patterns during Ebola-era xenophobic outbursts by Senegalese against a migrant Peul population of Guinean origins. It highlights the limited extent to which epidemics shape the micro-dynamics of outbreaks of xenophobia…

West Africa Hub

2020

Research paper

Without Rain or Land, Where Will Our People Go? Climate Change, Land Grabbing, and Human Mobility: Insights from Senegal and Cambodia

Based on a multi-case and multi-sited qualitative study in both Senegal and Cambodia, involving more than 150 participants in semi-structured interviews and focus groups affected by four different agribusiness projects, this paper shows how these three major contemporary challenges are…

West Africa Hub

2016

Research paper

‘When Migrants Become Messengers’: Affective Borderwork and Aspiration Management in Senegal

This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork to explore how affect and emotions are used in migration awareness campaigns and how local communities respond. ‘Aspiration management’ works to instil a sense in would-be Senegalese migrants that their hopes of migration to…

West Africa Hub

2022

Research paper

West African Migration in the Age of Climate Change : Translocal Perspectives on Mobility from Mali and Senegal

This thesis contributes to the debate on climate change, environment, and migration by scrutinizing conceptual and methodological deficiencies and adopting a migration research perspective. The author uses a multi-sited ethnography in Mali and Senegal to show how human activites shape…

West Africa Hub

2019

Research paper

The anticipatory politics of dispossession in a Senegalese mining negotiation

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviews, this article examines the contentious politics around a proposed mine, arguing that experiences of and resistances to dispossession are mediated by the folding together of temporal frames and diverse displacements. In particular, it…

West Africa Hub

2020

Research paper

The Allure of Scapegoating Return Migrants during a Pandemic

The stigmatization of Senegalese return migrants as COVID-19 vectors by fellow Senegalese during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic troubles the self/other distinction that underpins the scholarly focus on epidemics and xenophobia and encourages the broader task of exploring…

West Africa Hub

2021

Research paper

Rural-to-urban migration, kinship networks, and fertility among the Igbo in Nigeria

This paper presents ethnographic data to suggest that fertility behavior in contemporary Igbo-speaking Nigeria cannot be understood without taking into account the ways in which rural and urban social and demographic regimes are mutually implicated and dialectically constituted.

West Africa Hub

2011

Research paper

Revisiting Tropes of Environmental and Social Change in Casamance, Senegal

The chapter examines paddy rice cultivation in Casamance, southern Senegal, amid broader contemporary contestations about environmentally induced migration.

West Africa Hub

2016