Refugees and Forced Migration in the Horn and Eastern Africa

Part I: Geopolitics and Forced Migration.- Researching Refugees and Forced Migration in Eastern and Horn of Africa: Introducing the Issues.- Refugee Hosting and Conflict Resolution: Opportunities for Diplomatic Interventions and Buffeting Regional Hegemons.- The Greater Horn of Africa: Geopolitical Aspects of the "Refugee Crisis".- Part II: Security and Conflict.- The Securitization of Humanitarian Aid: A Case Study of the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya.- Securitization of Kenya's Asylum Space: Origin and Legal Analysis of the Encampment Policy.- Regional Integration By Military Means: The Case of the East African Standby Force.- Part III: Poverty, Development and Agency.- Refugee Undesirability and Economic Potentials: Questioning Encampment Policy in Forced Migration.- The Merowe Dam in Northern Sudan: A Case of Population Displacement and Impoverishment.- The Global and Local Politics of Refugee Management in the Horn: Ethiopian Refugee Policy and Eritrean Refugee Agency.- Part IV: Forced Repatriation, Trafficking and Legal Perspectives.- The Counter-Trafficking in Persons' Architecture in Kenya: A Security Governance Perspective.- Protection of Cross-Border Victims of Natural Disasters and Displacement in East Africa.- From Co-option, Coercion to Refoulement: Why the Repatriation of Refugees from Kenyan Refugee Camps Is Neither Voluntary Nor Dignified.- Part V: The Dadaab Camp and Its Dynamics.- 'We Cannot Manage This Plight Alone Anymore': Analysing the Kenyan Threats to Forcibly Repatriate All Somali Refugees from Dadaab Camp.- State Sovereignty vs. Refugees' Resilience: Repatriation, Securitization and Transnationalism in Dadaab.- Forging Associations Across Multiple Spaces: How Somali Kinship Practices Sustain the Existence of the Dadaab Camps in Kenya.

Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt studied International Relations and Development Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark and is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science. He has been awarded visiting research fellowships in Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Poland, and the Institute for Political Economy, Carleton University, Canada. He has recently been involved in EU-funded research on foreign policy in India and a Danish government-funded project on health and education in Bhutan. His research interests range from globalization and international division of labor to social and welfare policy and state regulations with a focus on East Asia, South-East Asia and South Asia. Most recent publications include: Globalization and Social Change (with Jacques Hersh; Routledge 2002); The New Political Economy of Southeast Asia (with Rajah Rasiah; Edward Elgar 2011) and Development Challenges in Bhutan: Perspectives on Inequality and Gross National Happiness (Springer 2017).

Leah Kimathi is a researcher and social activist. She has worked in program management in East Africa with national and international organizations including the United Nations Development Program in the fields of elections and governance, forced migration and humanitarian assistance, protection, peace and security. Currently, she is undertaking a PhD in Governance and Management at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya. Her research interests are on the state in Africa, having published on the same with CODESRIA and The Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) among other publishers. Michael Omondi Owiso received his PhD in Political Science from Aalborg University, Denmark, entitled "Transitional Justice and the Institutionalization of Democracy: Historical Legacies and the Truth Process in Kenya". Previously, he received his MA in International Relations from the United States International University,