Displacement economies in Africa : paradoxes of crisis and creativity / edited by Amanda Hammar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hammar, Amanda, editor.

Series:

Africa now (Zed Books)

Africa now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Africa--Economic conditions.

Refugees.

Social conflict--Economic aspects--Africa.

Social conflict.

Africa--Economic conditions.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This highly original volume, based on empirical case studies from across sub-Saharan Africa, provides fresh insights into the unexpected changes, complex agency and persistent dynamism entailed in displacement processes. In doing so, it explores the diversity of actors, strategies and practices that reshape the world in the face (and chronic aftermath) of dramatic moments of violent dislocation and/or enclosure. An important contribution to a topic of growing scholarly and policy interest.

Contents:

Figure and tables

Introduction

Chapter 1. Displacement economies: paradoxes of crisis and creativity in Africa / Amanda Hammar

Part I. Economies of rupture and repositioning

Chapter 2. Securing livelihoods: economic practice in the Darfur-Chad borderlands / Andrea Behrends

Chapter 3. Contested spaces, new opportunities: displacement, return and the rural economy in Casamance, Senegal / Martin Evans

Chapter 4. The paradoxes of class: crisis, displacement and repositioning in post-2000 Zimbabwe / Amanda Hammar

Part II. Reshaping economic sectors, markets and investment

Chapter 5. Rapid adaptations to change and displacements in the Lundas (Angola) / Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues

Chapter 6. Somali displacements and shifting markets: camel milk in Nairobi's Eastleigh Estate / Hannah Elliott

Chapter 7. Diaspora returnees in Somaliland's displacement economy / Peter Hansen

Chapter 8. Financial flows and secrecy jurisdictions in times of crisis: relocating assets in Zimbabwe's displacement economy / Sarah Bracking

Part III. Confinement and economies of loss and hope

Chapter 9. The IDP economy in northern Uganda: a prisoners' economy? / Morten Bøås and Ingunn Bjørkhaug

Chapter 10. 'No move to make': the Zimbabwe crisis, displacement-in-place and the erosion of 'proper places' / Jeremy Jones

Chapter 11. Captured lives: the precarious space of youth displacement in eastern DRC / Timothy Raeymaekers

About the contributors

Index

About Zed Books.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781350219717

1350219711

9781780324913

178032491X

9781780324906

1780324901

OCLC:

879645074