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A Qualitative Study of the Career Aspirations of Resettled Young Sudanese and Somali Refugees
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kagiso Nelly Tlhabano --- Queensland University of Technology, Robert Schweitzer --- Queensland University of Technology,The study documents and explicates the academic experiences, visions, hopes and desires which shape the vocational aspirations of young Sudanese and a Somali refugee who have resettled in Australia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to examine the experiences of a sample... -
Traumatic Experiences and PTSD Among Adolescent Congolese Refugees in Uganda: A Preliminary Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Joseph Ssenyonga --- Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda Vicki Owens --- World Food Programme, Uganda David Kani Olema --- Mbarara University of Science and Technology, UgandaThe study examined experienced traumatic events and the related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) amongst a sample of 89 adolescent Congolese refugees (56 females and 33 males) at a refugee camp in Uganda. Data was collected using a questionnaire, and analyzed... -
Silent survivors of sexual violence in conflict and the implications for HIV mitigation: experiences from Eritrea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Janet GruberThis paper considers the impacts of sexual violence perpetrated while the Eritrean town of Senafe was occupied by the Ethiopian military in 2000, during the second Ethiopia–Eritrea war. It discusses the aftermath for the survivors, all women and girls belonging... -
Migration, access to ART, and survivalist livelihood strategies in Johannesburg
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Joanna VeareySince the end of apartheid, patterns of migration into South Africa have shifted, and South Africa has become a destination for people from across the African continent and beyond — a small but important number of whom are refugees and... -
Immigrants' and refugees' unmet reproductive health demands in Botswana: Perceptions of public healthcare providers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: JO Oucho --- Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, United Kingdom NO Ama --- Department of Statistics, BotswanaBackground: The healthcare of Batswana (citizens of Botswana) as indicated in the country's Vision 2016 is one of the top priorities of the government of Botswana, yet Botswana's National Health Policy, the Immigration Policy and the National Sexual and Reproductive... -
FIFA 2010 and the elusive spirit of communitas: A return to Victor Turner (with some differences)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Oliver Human --- Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University, Steven Robins --- Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University,This article focuses on two cases of elusive and hyper-transient expressions of ‘communitas’ that seem to have been structured by specific conditions of liminality. These are the FIFA World Cup 2010 and the experiences of young Zimbabwean refugees living in... -
Determinants of undernutrition among women of reproductive age in Tanzania mainland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: AH Mtumwa --- Assistant Lecturer, Department of Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences, E Paul --- Assistant Lecturer, Department of Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences, SAH Vuai --- Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, School of Mathematical Sciences,Objective: Developing countries, including Tanzania, are increasingly characterised by undernutrition. It is very disheartening, affecting a large proportion of the country’s population. Women in the reproductive age group are affected the most. Undernourished women are likely to face reproductive health... -
Metropolitan nomads: a journey through Jo’burg’s “little Mogadishu”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nereida Ripero-Muñiz --- Modern Languages, School of Literature, Language and Media, South Africa Salym Fayad --- , South AfricaMayfair, a Johannesburg suburb, is a place where the lives of hundreds of Somalis intersect: a space of opportunity for some, a place of refuge for others, and a home away from home for the Somali diaspora in the city... -
The magnitude and determinants of anaemia among refugee preschool children from the Kebribeyah refugee camp, Somali region, Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Yasin Jemal --- School of Public Health, Ethiopia Jemal Haidar --- School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Wambui Kogi Makau --- Department of Food Science Nutrition and Technology, KenyaBackground: Anaemia is a global public health problem affecting children from both industrialised and developing countries with major consequences for health, social and economic development. Although the burden of anaemia is high among refugee children due to their living conditions,... -
War Memories and the Refugees’ Representation in Marie-Thérèse Toyi’s Weep not, Refugee
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Audace Mbonyingingo --- English Department, BurundiDuring the late twentieth century, numerous Great Lakes countries witnessed and experienced massive killings, disappearances, torture and tremendous suffering. Drawing particularly from the tenets of Cathy Caruth (1995, 153), which stipulate that ‘previously forgotten memory traces return and are reworked... -
Migration related malnutrition among war-instigated refugee children in the northern part of Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Samuel Nambile Cumber --- Discipline of Public Health Medicine, Department of Nursing & Public Health, College of Health Sciences, South Africa Geraldine Sinyuy --- English Modern Letters Department, Cameroon Joyce Mahlako Tsoka-Gwegweni --- Discipline of Public Health Medicine, Department of Nursing & Public Health, College of Health Sciences, South AfricaMigration is interwoven with the problems of health and nutrition. When people migrate, they are still in need of the most basic human needs including nutrition and health care. These two again are inter-related since they affect one another. The... -
Together we stand stronger
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Marco Bevolo --- Academy for Leisure, The Netherlands Anique Gerrits --- Academy for Leisure, The NetherlandsThis is an action research case study investigating social participation roadblocks and opportunities through leisure-related factors for Eritrean refugee status holders in the city of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The intent of this paper is to report on challenges and opportunities... -
Re-imagining Dzaleka: The Tumaini Festival and Refugee Visibility
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Catherine Makhumula --- Department of Drama, South AfricaIn this article, I explore the Tumaini Festival at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi as an important site for the re-imagination of place and the refugee. I argue that through the institution of the festival, refugee artists challenge the perception... -
Accounting for linefish dependency in management of the South African small pelagic fishery
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: D Parker --- , South Africa JC Coetzee --- , South Africa H Winker --- , South Africa CD van der Lingen --- , South AfricaTo further implement an ecosystem approach to management of the small pelagic fishery in South Africa, we attempted to develop functional relationships between spatialised time-series of the biomass of three small pelagic fish species and the catch per unit effort... -
Facing challenges and drawing strength from adversity: Lived experiences of Tibetan refugee youth in exile in India
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Kiran Dolly Sapam --- , India Parisha Jijina --- , IndiaThe current study is a qualitative investigation aimed at exploring the lived experiences of Tibetan youth who had escaped to India as unaccompanied minors and since then have been living as refugees in India without their parents. The study attempts... -
Skill development and employment opportunity from Chinese migrating ‘Geese’ in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Ehizuelen Michael Mitchell Omoruyi --- , People’s Republic of ChinaConsidering Chinese FDI in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the paper attempts to verify if the long-existing ‘flying geese’ paradigm (FGP) might be used to clarify the headway of Chinese migrating geese transmission of skills and job generation in SSA. Notably, since... -
Aspiring to citizenship: African immigrant youth and civic participation in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Alison Kuah --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaBased on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Cape Town over four months, this article addresses the question of how African immigrant youth experience life and live as “citizens” in Cape Town. African immigrant youth straddle multiple positions, localities and identities...