African Refugee History

Williams, Christian A.

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“…Due to colonial rule, shifting state borders, inter-communal conflict, and post-colonial power dynamics, East Africa has been a region of significant forced migration for decades and a site of consistent humanitarian intervention (Milner, 2019;Williams, 2020). As a result, refugee education activities have a long history in East Africa, influenced by various global education initiatives, policies, and actors over time (Dryden-Peterson, 2011).…”

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Social Emotional Learning with Refugees in East Africa

Dalrymple

2023

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Social emotional learning (SEL) has become a popular trend in the field of Education in Emergencies (EiE). Many SEL programs targeting refugee learners aim to help individuals develop skills that are necessary for learning and development, as well as mitigate the adverse impacts of crisis and displacement. While nearly half a billion USD has been invested in SEL initiatives for refugee and crisis contexts world-wide, little evidence exists about the impacts of SEL interventions with refugee communities. As 20% of all refugees globally reside in East Africa, and it is estimated that over 152 million African children live in active conflict zones, this study set out to qualitatively examine understandings, implementation, and implications of SEL interventions across actors engaging refugee communities in the region. The results expose tensions, challenges, and complex dynamics related to culture, power, and the complicated reality of implementing refugee education initiatives in East Africa. While further research into this area of inquiry is needed and proposed, these study findings provide a stronger understanding of the refugee education landscape in East Africa and its current insufficiencies through the example of SEL, and serve to inform other topical EiE interventions and the broader uptake of SEL by education systems globally.

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Social Emotional Learning with Refugees in East Africa

Dalrymple

2023

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“…As the UNHCR expanded in Africa in the 1960s, the organisation necessarily partnered with humanitarians (both expatriate and indigenous), missionaries and African statesmen already engaged in refugee issues. Even as Africans themselves applied legal terms conceived for Europe's postwar refugees as colonial territories transitioned to states, the UNHCR's growing involvement in Africa gradually formalised these ongoing heterogeneous and locally focused initiatives (Williams 2020;Panzer 2013;Rosenthal 2015;Tague 2019). A lasting result of the UNHCR's drive to institutionalise "solutions" to "refugee problems in Africa" was the formulation of refugee classifications and corresponding policy categories.…”

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Historical perspectives on contemporary refuge seeking in Africa

Terretta

Janzen

2021

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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This introduction elaborates the aims of the Special Issue, African Refuge | Refuge africain, which are: considering African refuge seeking over the span of a century; moving beyond the classifications that orient annual reporting on refugee statistics; delving into the politics of refuge seeking; and blurring distinctions between refuge seekers and hosts, exiles and humanitarians. The research presented in this issue demonstrates that, whether in the past or in the present, Africa's uprooted are not a problem to be solved. Considered with a broader historical scope, they are people who withdraw from a place they once called home because of circumstances they faced there. Refuge seeking is not a policy category, a legal classification or an international protocol. Rather, it is the practice of defying uniform aid prescriptions engaged by those for whom it is too problematic to remain at home. RÉSUMÉCette introduction expose les objectifs du numéro spécial, African Refuge | Refuge africain, qui sont les suivants : l'examen de la recherche de refuge en Afrique sur une période d'un siècle ; le dépassement des classifications qui orientent les rapports annuels sur les statistiques relatives aux réfugiés ; l'exploration approfondie de la politique de recherche de refuge ; et le brouillage des distinctions entre les demandeurs d'asile et les hôtes, les exilés et les humanitaires. La recherche présentée dans ce numéro démontre que, dans le passé comme dans le présent, les déracinés de l'Afrique ne sont pas un problème à résoudre. Pris en considération dans une perspective historique plus large, ce sont des personnes qui se retirent d'un lieu qu'elles appelaient autrefois leur foyer, en raison de circonstances qu'elles y rencontraient. La recherche de refuge n'est pas une catégorie politique, une classification juridique ou un protocole international. Il s'agit plutôt de la pratique consistant à défier les prescriptions uniformes en matière d'aide engagées par ceux pour qui il est trop problématique de rester chez eux.

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Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia

Pagano

2024

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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African Refugee History

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Social Emotional Learning with Refugees in East Africa

Social Emotional Learning with Refugees in East Africa

Historical perspectives on contemporary refuge seeking in Africa

Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia

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