The study reviewed scientific literature on the microeconomic and social effects of large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Eine Zusammenfassung auf DE gibt es in der Bauernstimme. Excerpt from the Key findings: Microeconomic indicators Operation of land deals: roughly half of the deals concluded are[…]
Region: East & Horn of Africa
Kenya: Refugees and COVID
This working paper is based on a qualitative questionnaire crafted to better understand how exactly the COVID-19 pandemic has affected refugees and refugee protection in six African countries: namely Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. We sought to gain insight into the perspectives[…]
Main Actors Irregular Migration: Sudan
Table with Info on government institutions involved in irregular migration on national and sub-national level, as well as Civil Society actors, and Private sector actors. This document is being referred to from the Wiki-Entry about the Khartoum Process. See: Actors in Irregular migration W.S-2
The Big Wall
An ActionAid investigation into how Italy tried to stop migration from Africa, using EU funds, and how much money it spent There are satellites, drones, ships, cooperation projects, police posts, repatriation flights, training centers. They[…]
African Civil Society Perspectives on EU Africa Cooperation
ECRE has become increasingly concerned about the impact of Europe’s toxic migration control policies on other regions, including Africa. As European and some EU policy-makers clamour to make migration deals with African governments, to get them to prevent migration, to contain people or to accept[…]
AU-Center for Illegal Migration in Khartoum
The Sudanese government on Saturday signed an agreement to host the African Union’s Center for Illegal Migration. Under the agreement, Khartoum will become the permanent headquarters of the center. These initiatives were financed by a 4.5 billion euro ($ 5 billion) European fund for measures[…]
IOM in Djibouti
This article analyses the activities of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Djibouti, and especially its capacity-building activities in the field of migration management. It ethnographically documents how these projects transform state sovereignty. It argues that this is done not only through the Djiboutian[…]
Towards a Borderless Africa?
The vision of a united Africa and the rejection of the arbitrary borders created by European colonial powers have for decades been at the heart of pan-African endeavours. Achieving the free movement of persons on the continent was a key aim of the 1991 Abuja[…]
Darfuri migration from Sudan to Europe
This study documents for the first time the experiences of young Darfuris, mainly men, fleeing Sudan for Europe. It is one of the very few research studies that has looked at the whole process of migration for a particular population group – ethnic Darfuris –[…]
EU’s migration partnership legitimizes Sudan’s “militia state”
Large-scale migration to Europe has precipitated a paradigm shift in relations between the European Union (EU) and the government of Sudan, and closer ties between both entities. This new partnership has resulted in the EU disbursing millions of euros to the Sudanese government for technical[…]