Migration of Africans

Realities, Governance and Development

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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While international migration profoundly influences governance, development, and social structures, Africa’s unique position as a sending, transit, and receiving region remains underexamined. Migration of Africans: Realities, Governance and Development offers a rigorous, contextually grounded examination of how migration intersects with governance, everyday life, and development across the continent.Bringing together original research from across Africa, this edited volume examines international migration through multiple lenses, including governance, regional integration, labour mobility, gender, religion, digital practices, forced displacement, transnational families, and the experiences of those left behind. With empirical case studies spanning countries such as Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal, Namibia, and Burkina Faso, contributors analyse both voluntary and forced migration, highlighting the social, economic, and emotional dimensions of mobility. Moving thematically, from macro‑level discussions of migration governance and regional integration to micro‑level analyses of lived experience, wellbeing, online engagement with homelands, and household dynamics, this collection locates migration within broader development processes and institutional frameworks, while centring African perspectives and contextual realities often marginalised in global migration debates.Designed for multi- and transdisciplinary audiences bridging sociology, development studies, political science, and African studies, this collection offers actionable insights for optimizing migration governance and development outcomes, making it an indispensable resource for understanding Africa’s evolving migration landscape.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-27
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:Emerald Publishing Limited
ISBN:9781807916459

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Ọláyínká Àkànle is Professor of Sociology at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. His intersectional research interests include Migration and Diaspora Studies; Gender; Governance and Environment; Epistemology and Knowledge Production; Family and Sexuality; Child and Youth; Conflict, Crime and Security and Health and Medicine.

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Chapter 1. International Migration Realities, Governance and Development of Africa: The Context and Structure; Ọláyínká ÀkànleSection 1. The Migration, Governance, Integration and Development Chapter 2. Migration Governance and Development in Africa; Olaitan Tope Bada and Ọláyínká Àkànle Chapter 3. When Borders Fade: Rethinking Migration and Regional Integration in Africa; Olusegun Israel Olaniyan Chapter 4. Religion and In-Migrants’ Socio-Economic Integration in Cameroon; Nanche Billa Robert Section 2. Labour Migration, Wellbeing and Online Practices Chapter 5. Locating Namibia in Southern African Cross-border Migration Discourse: Welcoming or Keeping Out?; Kolawole Emmanuel Omomowo Chapter 6. Understanding Senegalese Skilled Migrants’ Online Practices Oriented Towards the Homeland; Ibrahima Amadou Dia Chapter 7. Female Labour Migration and Wellbeing of Households in Africa: Lived Experiences from Nigeria; Adefolake Olusola Ademuson Section 3. Forced Migration, Transnationalism and the Left-behind Phenomenon Chapter 8. Dynamics of Forced Migration in Burkina Faso: The Case of Internally Displaced Persons in the Centre-North Region; Tebkieta Alexandra Tapsoba Chapter 9. “Migrating without my Family has been a Challenge”: Relationships of Nigerian Transnational Families; Ọláyínká Àkànle and Patience Charles Nathan Chapter 10. International Migration and Development in Nigeria: Experiences from Left-behind Spouses; Abiodun Tunde Ojuri and Ọláyínká ÀkànleChapter 11. Optimising the Intersectional Realities of International Migration, Governance and Development of Africa; Ọláyínká Àkànle