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Title: | Displacement economies in Africa: paradoxes of crisis and creativity |
Editor: | Hammar, Amanda |
Year: | 2014 |
Pages: | 260 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Africa now |
City of publisher: | London; New York |
Publisher: | Zed Books, in association with Nordic Africa Institute |
ISBN: | 9781780324890 |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Sudan Chad Senegal Zimbabwe Angola Kenya Somalia Uganda Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
Subjects: | displaced persons economic conditions informal sector livelihoods |
External link: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-1841 |
Abstract: | This book investigates the relationship between displacement and economy. It contains case studies of various 'displacement economies' from across Subsaharan Africa. Contents: Displacement economies: paradoxes of crisis and creativity in Africa (Amanda Hammar). Part 1 Economies of rupture and repositioning, Securing livelihoods: economic practice in the Darfur-Chad borderlands (Andrea Behrends); Contested spaces, new opportunities: displacement, return and the rural economy in Casamance, Senegal (Martin Evans); The paradoxes of class: crisis, displacement and repositioning in post-2000 Zimbabwe (Amanda Hammar). Part 2 Reshaping economic sectors, markets and investment, Rapid adaptations to change and displacements in the Lundas (Angola) (Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues); Somali displacements and shifting markets: camel milk in Nairobi's Eastleigh estate (Hannah Elliott); Diaspora returnees in Somaliland's displacement economy (Peter Hansen); Financial flows and secrecy jurisdictions in times of crisis: relocating assets in Zimbabwe's displacement economy (Sarah Bracking). Part 3 Confinement and economies of loss and hope, The IDP economy in Northern Uganda: a prisoners' economy? (Morten Bøås and Ingunn Bjørkhaug); 'No Move To Make': the Zimbabwe crisis, displacement-in-place and the erosion of 'proper places' (Jeremy Jones); Captured lives: the precarious space of youth displacement in Eastern DRC (Timothy Raeymaekers). [ASC Leiden abstract] |