Fixed Cap, Rebecca Enobong Roberts and Taibat Lawanson look at the gaps in planning and coverage round city migration.
Curated Conversations · Season 1, Episode 4: Migration and Displacement in African CitiesThe place does migration coverage occur? Who devises and implements it?
Researchers and policymakers are more and more conscious of the truth that, past inside ministries, borders and refugee camps, the stakeholders of migration governance embody city-level decision-makers and municipal authorities. Most migrants don’t cross worldwide borders. They embody the various hundreds of thousands of rural dwellers shifting to cities for alternatives, or as a result of they’ve been displaced by environmental elements.
What are the implications of this realisation? Researchers Rebecca Enobong Roberts, Taibat Lawanson, and Fixed Cap draw consideration to gaps in data, coverage and planning on the subject of migrants and internally displaced individuals in African cities. Evaluating and contrasting the challenges confronted by migrants in East and West African contexts, they map pathways towards simpler city migration governance that draw on the usually casual methods and preferences of city dwellers themselves.
Speaker Bios
Fixed Cap is an city planner and researcher based mostly in Nairobi, Kenya. He has been concerned in analysis, advocacy and apply within the areas of city mobility, city displacement, placemaking and environmental monitoring. He recurrently feedback on city planning points at africancityplanner.com.
Rebecca Enobong Roberts is a PhD candidate on the Technische Universität Berlin’s Habitat Unit. Her dissertation examines the intersectionality between inside displacement and compelled migration within the context of sustainable and inclusive urbanisation by a placemaking case research of IDP migrants from the North-East area of Nigeria to the metropolis of Lagos.
Taibat Lawanson is a Professor of City Administration and Governance on the College of Lagos, Nigeria. Her work focuses on the interface of social complexities, city realities and the pursuit of spatial justice in Africa. She is well-known for her transdisciplinary method which engages college students, coverage makers, civil society and native communities.
Additional Studying
RE Roberts, O Okanya (2022) “Measuring the socio-economic influence of pressured evictions and unlawful demolition; A comparative research between displaced and current casual settlements” in The Social Science Journal.
About Curated Conversations
The Curated Conversations: Exploring the Politics of Migration by Concepts (Season I) podcast sequence examines the previous, current, and doable futures of migration inside and from the African continent. It approaches migration with a essential and philosophical lens, drawing on the experience of main consultants, thinkers, and practitioners in a sequence of in-depth interviews and discussions about migration histories and coverage regimes. The geographical scope of the sequence is broad, with protection spanning the size and breath of the continent in all its world connections. Consultants from throughout Africa and its Euro-American diaspora are invited to share their data, lived expertise, and numerous views on the interaction between borders and social phenomena.
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Curated Conversations seeks to forge a brand new dialogue round African migration in Europe and the West, but additionally inside Africa itself: one which foregrounds African data, lived expertise, and political thought in the direction of a humane and socially simply order of mobility. The questions it asks embody: What sort of concepts inform present migration insurance policies in Africa? The place do they fall brief, and what sorts of options can we think about?
Curated by Ali Nobil Ahmad and Linah Kinya, African Migration Hub, Heinrich Böll Basis. Co-published by African Arguments and the Heinrich Boll Basis, Horn of Africa Workplace. Produced in Nairobi by Amp Studios Africa
Curated Conversations is a podcast sequence that seeks to forge a brand new dialogue round African migration in Europe and the West, but additionally inside Africa itself: one which foregrounds African data, lived expertise, and political thought in the direction of a humane and socially simply order of mobility.
