African Perspectives on South–South Migration

Meron Zeleke is Associate Professor at the Center for Human Rights, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. She has years of teaching and research experience at renowned academic institutions in Africa, North America, Europe, and Asia, and is a member of several international academic associations and an editorial board member of internationally renowned journals.Lahra Smith is Associate Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government at Georgetown University, USA, and the Director of the African Studies Program. She is a political scientist with a particular interest in citizenship, migration, and political institutions in Africa.

• Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction: Intra-continental migration dynamics in Africa and the importance of South-South Migration (SSM) Part II: Agency in South-South Migration 2. Platinum mining, migrant labour, and community formation in informal settlements in Rustenburg, South Africa, 1994-2018 3. Unpacking the reasons for dominance of South-South migration: The Ethiopian case 4. Exploring the lived experiences of Ghanaian migrants along the Ghana-China migration corridor 5. Looking beyond the victimhood discourse: The case of forced migrants in the Global South Part III: The Flows of Resources in South-South Migration 6. Humanitarian nomads: The mobilities and disjunctures inherent to aid work in the Global South 7. The flow of resources in the Global South: The transfer of agricultural skills between Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso 8. Transnational flow of ideas in the Ethiopia-South Africa migration corridor: Hadiya experiences 9. Religious place-making and African mobilities: Muslim and Christian Moroccan sites in migrant trajectories within and beyond the continent 10. Djibouti, a migratory crossroads in the Red Sea basin: Prospects and challenges 11. Forced Migration Life Trajectories and Politics of Contradictions: South Sudanese between being IDPs and Refugees in Sudan and South Sudan