‘Contested mobility‘: Migration policy in countries of the global South between local needs, national interests and global agendas
The project explores in selected example countries how global migration norms are translated into (sub-) national policies, how migration-related policies are negotiated with policy agendas related to climate change, urbanisation and state fragility and what their impacts are on diverse actor groups.
Project Lead:
Jana Kuhnt
Charles Martin-Shields
Project Team:
Musallam Abedtalas
Susan Ekoh
Jörn Grävingholt
Rose Jaji
Financing:
Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)
Time frame:
2020 - 2022
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completed
Co-operation Partner:
Institute of Migration Studies, Jigjiga University
Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University
Project description
With the Agenda 2030 and the 2018 Global Compacts for Migration and Refugees coming into effect, the international community faces the challenge of implementing these new global norms for migration management at the national and local policy levels – and identifying the role of development policy therein. A critical but often neglected aspect of these debates are the multi-level politics of migration. International cooperation, such as migration-related policy advice in the context of development cooperation, can only be sustainable if the political context in which migration issues are negotiated in a given country is properly understood and factored in.
Using the example of four countries in Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Senegal) and two countries in Latin America and Asia (Colombia and a still to be defined country in Southeast Asia), the project focuses on three dimemsions of the migration policy process: 1. A vertical dimension in which it analyses how global migration policies are - and can be - translated to the (sub-) national level. 2. A horizontal dimension, in which national migration policy preferences are studied in relation to interests and priorities in other policy fields (connected to the megatrends urbanization, climate change and state fragility) and formal and informal institutions. 3. Last but not least, the project enquires into the impacts of migration policies and related strategies on groups of displaced people (such as persons displaced by violent conflict and/or climate change, refugee hosting communities) and relationships between local policy makers.
The project builds on activities and results of the „Reducing causes of the forced displacement and managing migration“ project (2017-2019).
Publications
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Cities and Displacement (Themenheft)
Dick, Eva / Einhard Schmidt-Kallert / Benjamin Schraven (2022)
in: Trialog - a journal for planning and building in a global context 140-141 (Januar 2022) -
Localisation of global refugee policies the case of Kenya and Kalobeyei
Dick, Eva (2022)
in: Trialog (140/141), 4-9 -
The nexus between climate change and human mobility and its relevance for urban areas
Schraven, Benjamin (2022)
in: Trialog (140/141), 10-12 -
Ride-sharing apps for urban refugees: easing or exacerbating a digital transport disadvantage?
Martin-Shields, Charles (2022)
in: Trialog (140/141), 58-62 -
Navigating through an external agenda and internal preferences: Ghana’s national migration policy
Segadlo, Nadine (2021)
Discussion Paper 8/2021 -
Local governments and the sustainable integration of refugees in Ethiopia
Binkert, Eva / Merlin Flaig / Lukas Frucht et al. (2021)
Discussion Paper 21/2021 -
A behavioural perspective on the drivers of migration: studying economic and social preferences using the Gallup World Poll
Klöble, Katrin (2021)
Discussion Paper 4/2021 -
A systematic review on ethical challenges of 'field' research in low-income and middle-income countries: respect, justice and beneficence for research staff?
Steinert, Janina Isabel / David Atika Nyarige / Milan Jacobi / Jana Kuhnt / Lennart Kaplan (2021)
in: BMJ Global Health 6 (7), article e005380 -
How the political participation of refugees is shaped on the local level: self-organisation and political opportunities in Cologne
Jacobi, Milan (2021)
Discussion Paper 34/2021 -
Refugees and local power dynamics: the case of Gambella Region of Ethiopia
Hagos, Samuel Zewdie (2021)
Discussion Paper 25/2021 -
How digital solutions can ease the COVID-19 impact on displaced populations
Kuhnt, Jana / Kirsten Schüttler (2021)
published on blogs.worldbank.org, 02.03.2021 -
Economic integration into host communities in times of Covid-19: how to ease the impact of Covid-19 on displaced populations in low- and middle-income countries
Kuhnt, Jana / Kirsten Schüttler (2021)
published on deval.org, 16.04.2021 -
Rural-urban migration in West Africa: contexts, trends and recommendations
Dick, Eva / Benjamin Schraven (2021)
in: Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD), Policy Brief (February 2021) -
“Aberrant” masculinity: men, violence and forced migration
Jaji, Rose (2021)
in: Claudia Mora / Nicole Piper (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 373-386 -
Migration and the 2030 Agenda: making everyone count - migrants and refugees in the Sustainable Development Goals
Koch, Anne / Jana Kuhnt (2020)
Briefing Paper 11/2020 -
Migration und die Agenda 2030: Es zählt nur, wer gezählt wird - Migrant*innen und Geflüchtete in den Zielen nachhaltiger Entwicklung
Koch, Anne / Jana Kuhnt (2020)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 8/2020 -
Information and communication technology in the lives of forcibly displaced persons in Kenya
Eppler, Mirko / Stella Gaetani / Francy Köllner / Jana Kuhnt / Charles Martin-Shields / Nyat Mebrahtu / Antonia Peters / Carlotta Preiß (2020)
Discussion Paper 15/2020 -
Displacement crises, fragile states and development cooperation: why governance support is needed to reduce reasons to flee
Grävingholt, Jörn (2022)
in: Hans-Joachim Preuß / Christoph Beier / Dirk Messner (Hrsg.), Forced displacement and migration: approaches and programmes of international cooperation, Wiesbaden: Springer, 41-53 -
Wie afrikanische Regionen Migration regeln: Personenfreizügigkeit in West- und Nordost-Afrika
Dick, Eva / Benjamin Schraven (2020)
published on Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 10.11.2020 -
Migration innerhalb Afrikas als Herausforderung für die afrikanischen Regionalorganisationen: die Beispiele IGAD und ECOWAS
Dick, Eva / Benjamin Schraven (2020)
Expertise im Auftrag des Sachverständigenrats deutscher Stiftungen für Integration und Migration für das SVR-Jahresgutachten 2020, Berlin: Sachverständigenrat deutscher Stiftungen für Integration und Migration -
The asylum hump: why country income level predicts new asylum seekers, but not new refugees
Ruhe, Constantin / Charles Martin-Shields / Lisa Maria Groß (2020)
in: Journal of Refugee Studies (Online 4 March 2020), 1-17 -
Global policy, local implementation - impacts of the global compact on refugees
Dick, Eva / Markus Rudolf (2020)
in: Diplomatisches Magazin 2/2020, 18-23 -
Climate change impacts on human (im-)mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa: recent trends and options for policy responses
Schraven, Benjamin / Stephen Adaawen / Christina Rademacher-Schulz / Nadine Segadlo (2020)
Bonn/Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) -
Migration, Umweltwandel und nachhaltiges Wirtschaften
Schraven, Benjamin (2020)
in: Ökologisches Wirtschaften Nr. 3 (2020), 10-11 -
Economic integration into host communities in times of crisis. How to ease the impact of Covid-19 on displaced populations in low- and middle-income countries
Kuhnt, Jana / Kirsten Schüttler (2020)
DEval Policy Brief, published online 08.12.2020 -
Flucht, fragile Staaten und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Governanceförderung als Fluchtursachenbekämpfung
Grävingholt, Jörn (2020)
in: Christoph Beier / Dirk Messner / Hans-Joachim Preuß (Hrsg.), Globale Wanderungsbewegungen: Beiträge der internationalen Zusammenarbeit zum Umgang mit Flucht und Migration, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 307-321 -
Drought, migration, and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa: what are the links and policy options?
Adaawen, Stephen / Christina Rademacher-Schulz / Benjamin Schraven / Nadine Segadlo (2019)
in: Everisto Mapedza / Daniel Tsegai / Michael Bruntrup / Robert McLeman (eds.), Drought challenges: policy options for developing countries (Current Directions in Water Scarcity Research 2), Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 15-32 -
Challenges and possible solutions to conducting quantitative surveys with displaced populations
Kuhnt, Jana / Charles Martin-Shields / Ruben Wedel (2019)
Rotterdam: IMISCOE (Briefs on Methodological, Ethical and Epistemological Issues 13) -
Not in my backyard? Welfare gains and social challenges: the impact of refugees on the host population in Uganda
Kuhnt, Jana / Jana Lenze / Ramona Rischke (2019)
Discussion Paper 17/2019 -
The neglected role of cities in the Global Compact on Refugees
Dick, Eva / Jana Kuhnt (2019)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (The Current Column of 23 January 2019) -
Refugee Law, Agency and Credibility in Refugee Status Determination in Nairobi, Kenya
Jaji, Rose (2018)
in: Z'Flucht. Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung 2 (1), 32 - 56 -
Under the shadow of genocide: Rwandans, ethnicity and refugee status
Jaji, Rose (2017)
in: Ethnicities, 17 (1), 47-65 -
Religious and ethnic politics in refugee hosting: Somalis in Nairobi, Kenya
Jaji, Rose (2014)
in: Ethnicities 14 (5), 634-649 -
Somali asylum seekers and refoulement at the Kenya-Somalia border
Jaji, Rose (2013)
in: Journal of Borderlands Studies 28 (3), 355-368 -
Social technology and refugee encampment in Kenya
Jaji, Rose (2011)
in: Journal of Refugee Studies 25 (2), 221–238 -
Masculinity on unstable ground: young refugee men in Nairobi, Kenya
Jaji, Rose (2009)
in: Journal of Refugee Studies 22 (2), 177–194