New publications:
1) The Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa (SIHMA) is delighted to inform you that the report ‘Access to socio-economic rights for refugees in six African countries: a comparison between the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Sudan’ is now available online.
In 2016, according to the UNHCR, more than 65 million people across the globe had left their homes in search of protection from conflicts, wars and persecutions. At the end of the same year, on the African continent (Central and Great Lakes, East and Horn, Southern Africa, and Western Africa) the UNHCR counted a total of 4 431 500 refugees, 1 293 014 asylum-seekers and 10 762 882 internally displaced persons (IDPs). Furthermore, Ethiopia is the African country hosting the highest number of refugees (736 086), South Africa is the country with the highest number of asylum-seekers (1 096 063) and Sudan is the country with the highest number of IDPs (3 218 234). The current state of forced displacement in Africa presents a number of socio-economic and political challenges which need to be addressed in order to reverse this trend and reduce the number of people in need of international protection.
This report looks at the legal discourse around the right to work, education and health for refugees and asylum seekers in six different African countries, versus actual practices. It also highlights that the denial of basic human rights and the erosion of refugee protection in Africa are both issues of great concern which require a collective effort in order to ameliorate the hardship experienced by refugees on the continent.
Read here: http://bit.ly/2nBUbge
2) Social Inclusion's newest thematic issue on international migration is out and all research articles are free to download.
Title: International Migration and Ethnic Integration
Editors: Yaojun Li (University of Manchester) and Anthony Heath (University of Oxford)
Complete Issue: http://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/62
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