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From Ethiopia to South Africa: The human cost of a neglected migration route
This ongoing series from The New Humanitarian explores the humanitarian implications of South-South migration. Although South-South migration flows are larger than the numbers of people heading South to North – with all the inherent risks of undocumented travel – these cross-border, intra-regional journeys tend to be neglected by governments and aid agencies.
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Decolonising knowledge production on South-South migration
In this blog, we interrogate the significance of the historical framing of knowledge on South – South migration and how by remaining steeped in asymmetrical relations of power, this has marginalised knowledge production from the Global South and Africa in particular.
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Critical migration policy narratives from West Africa
This paper relies on a desk-review and qualitative data to examine the narratives that shape migration policy formulation and outcomes in West Africa.
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Migrants as knowledge producers
Yonas Tadesse, a Hadiya returnee migrant, wrote a self-history and reflection of his migration experiences in a Tanzanian detention facility. Published as a book, his story highlights the need to centre migrants as knowledge producers in migration studies.
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