Pages: 628

Year: 2019

Dimensions: 229 x 152mm

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Roaming Africa

Migration, Resilience and Social Protection

What happens when digital innovation meets migration? Roaming Africa considers how we understand modern-day mobility in Africa, where age-old routes strengthen the resilience of people roaming the continent for livelihoods and security, assisted by mobile communication. Digital mobility expands connectivity around the world, and also in Africa. In this book, the authors show that mobility, resilience and social protection in the digital age are closely related. Each chapter takes a close look at the migration dynamics in a specific context, using social theory as a lens. This book adopts a critical perspective on approaches in which migration is regarded merely as a hazard. Edited by distinguished scholars from Africa and Europe, this volume, the second in a four-part series Connected and Mobile: Migration and Human Trafficking in Africa, compiles chapters from a diverse group of young and upcoming scholars, making an important contribution to the literature on migration studies, digital science, social protection and governance.

£64.00

About the editors

Mirjam van Reisen

Mirjam van Reisen is Professor of ‘International Relations, Innovation and Care’ at Tilburg University, and Professor ‘Computing for Society’ at Leiden University.

Mia Stokmans

Mia Stokmans is Associate Professor of Culture Studies and Digital Science at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher

Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher is Director of the Department of Population Studies, Mekelle University in Ethiopia.

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