Displacement economies in Africa : paradoxes of crisis and creativity

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Author:

Hammar, Amanda, editor.

ISBN:

9781780324890

9781780324883

Physical Description:

vii, 260 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Africa now

Africa now (Zed Books)

Contents:

Displacement economies : paradoxes of crisis and creativity in Africa / Securing livelihoods : economic practice in the Darfur-Chad borderlands / Contested spaces, new opportunities : displacement, return and the rural economy in Casamance, Senegal / The paradoxes of class : crisis, displacement and repositioning in post-2000 Zimbabwe / Rapid adaptations to change and displacements in the Lundas (Angola) / Somali displacements and shifting markets : camel milk in Nairobi's Eastleigh estate / Diaspora returnees in Somaliland's displacement economy / Financial flows and secrecy jurisdictions in times of crisis : relocating assets in Zimbabwe's displacement economy / The IDP economy in northern Uganda : a prisoners' economy? / "No move to make" : the Zimbabwe crisis, displacement-in-place and the erosion of "proper places" / Captured lives : the precarious space of youth displacement in eastern DRC

Subject Term:

Refugees -- Africa -- Economic conditions.

Social conflict -- Economic aspects -- Africa.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- Economic conditions.

Added Author:

Hammar, Amanda,

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Summary

Large-scale displacement - whether caused by war, state-related political or development projects, different forms of political violence, structural crisis, or even natural disasters - evokes many stereotyped assumptions about those forcibly displaced or emplaced. At the same time there is a problematic lack of attention paid to the diversity of actors, strategies and practices that reshape the world in the face (and chronic aftermath) of dramatic moments of violent dislocation. In this highly original volume, based on empirical case studies from across sub-Saharan Africa, the authors reveal the paradoxical effects, both intended and unexpected, that displacement produces, and that manifest themselves in displacement economies.

An important contribution to a topic of growing scholarly and policy interest.