LSE PfAL students Nahida Khamis and Fatouma Sokona share why collective action is needed to tackle Libya’s African Migrant Crisis
Libya’s northern coast has been considered to be a launch pad for African migrants in search of viable economic opportunities in Europe for decades. More than 100,000 refugees and migrants have set ashore in Europe per year and over 3,000 have died across […]
As the AHRC-ESRC PaCCs-funded Politics of Return series is launched, Professor Tim Allen and Dr Anna Macdonald discuss why it is more important than ever to investigate the dynamics of return and reintegration in Central and Eastern Africa.
This article is part of our Politics of Return series, an AHRC/ESRC PaCCs-funded project which explores the dynamics of return and reintegration […]
Yohannes Woldemariam argues that European leaders could learn from Uganda’s compassionate policy towards refugees.
The distinguished scholar and humanitarian activist Noam Chomsky places Western attitudes towards refugees “among the signs of the severe moral-cultural crisis… that is mislabelled a ‘refugee crisis.’” According to the latest report of Amnesty International:
Measures implemented by EU leaders to strengthen search and rescue capacity in […]
Diana Olaleye tells the story behind the famous ‘Ghana Must Go’ bag.
It is chequered. It is sturdy. It is used worldwide. There is some contention as to whether it can be deemed highly fashionable, but it gains some cool points for being waterproof and available in more than one set of colours. For many, it merely serves the primary function […]
I became an undocumented migrant at age six and it changed my life writes Robtel Neajai Pailey.
For the millions of undocumented migrants across the globe, life unfolds above ground, but below the radar.
I should know.
When I was six years old, I plunged into a vortex of legal invisibility and remained trapped in its grip for nearly 15 years.
Born in Monrovia, […]
Geraldine Asiwome Adiku argues for effective means to make undocumented migrants become documented in the UK, as the state is benefiting from them despite not officially recognising them.
‘They say we don’t pay taxes’, Yaa Mansa1, a middle-aged Ghanaian woman told me when we met in London on a wet Wednesday evening in December of 2014. We met in a […]
Madeleine Wong examines how skilled professional Ghanaian return migrants articulate and navigate the challenges of readjustment.
It was 2011 when I was myself confronted with this very question. It was a pivotal year for me personally and professionally: I was on leave in Ghana for six months, recovering from serious health issues, and also contemplating my future at my current […]
Papa Demba Fall takes an in-depth look into migration in Central Africa and the factors triggering human movement over the past few centuries.
The study of African migrations has historically been imbalanced, biased towards studies of West Africa and the Maghreb. Today’s studies largely focus on irregular movements towards Northern countries. The disproportionate attention that is paid to migration outside […]
LSE’s Marina Elgawly discusses Uganda as a potential model for addressing the refugee crisis globally.
October 2016 marked the full dismantlement of “the Jungle”, the notorious refugee camp in Calais that had come to symbolise the failure of EU refugee and migrant policy. The squalor of Calais brought to light the current rhetoric which surrounds the global approach towards the […]
LSE’s Samantha Lattof addresses the lack of an appropriate response to violence against female kayayei migrants in Accra.
“Why was she beaten? Did she steal something?” asked the triage nurse as we arrived in the Accident Centre. I was well aware of the stigma and insults that female kayayei (singular kayayoo) migrants experience in Accra; it was a common theme […]
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