Amanda Hammar is research professor at the Centre of African Studies, Copenhagen University. She has researched and published on agrarian change, local government, state-making, sovereignty, displacement and crisis in southern Africa, with a special focus on Zimbabwe and, less so, on Mozambique.She co-edited Zimbabwe’s Unfinished Business: Rethinking Land, State and Nation in the Context of Crisis (2003) and two journal special issues related to political economies of displacement in southern Africa Journal of Contemporary African Studies (2008) and Journal of Southern African Studies (2010). Her current work is focused on changing modes of urban governance and citizenship in times of crisis and displacement.

• Introduction1. Displacement Economies: Paradoxes of Crisis and Creativity in Africa - Amanda HammarPart I: Economies of Rupture and Repositioning2. Securing Livelihoods. Economic Practice in the Darfur-Chad Borderlands - Andrea Behrends3. Contested Spaces, New Opportunities: Displacement, Return and the Rural Economy in Casamance, Senegal - Martin Evans4. The Paradoxes of Class: Crisis, Displacement and Repositioning in Post-2000 Zimbabwe - Amanda HammarPart II: Reshaping Economic Sectors, Markets and Investment5. Rapid Adaptations to Change and Displacements in the Lundas (Angola) - Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues6. Somali Displacements and Shifting Markets: Camel Milk in Nairobi's Eastleigh Estate - Hannah Elliott7. Diaspora Returnees in Somaliland's Displacement Economy - Peter Hansen8. Financial Flows and Secrecy Jurisdictions in Times of Crisis: Relocating Assets in Zimbabwe's Displacement Economies - Sarah BrackingPart III: Confinement and Economies of Loss and Hope9. The IDP Economy in Northern Uganda: A Prisoners' Economy? - Morten Bøås and Ingunn Bjørkhaug10. 'No Move To Make': The Zimbabwe Crisis, Displacement-in-Place and the Erosion of 'Proper Places' - Jeremy Jones11. Captured Lives: the Precarious Space of Youth Displacement in Eastern DRC - Timothy Raeymaekers

Based on empirical case studies from across sub-Saharan Africa, the contributions in this volume look to provide fresh insights into the unexpected changes, complex agency and persistent dynamism entailed in displacement processes.