Dr Ezenwa E. Olumba is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of Society &Politics, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. He earned his doctorate from Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a critical migration and conflict scholar whose interdisciplinary research examines the influence of violence, culture, and political structures on emotions, (im)mobility experiences, and collective behaviour. His research interests include immobility, migration, memory, culture, and identity, as well as drones and lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS).
He is also a contributing writer to Psychology Today, where he publishes public-facing essays on identity, trauma, and migratory experience. He is an Associate Fellow of Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy), has taught at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the University of Bedfordshire. He also served as president of a section at the British Science Association (2024-2025).
Eze introduced the Resilience–Acceptability framework, as well as the concepts of cognitive immobility and aerial colonialism. His academic work appears in leading journals, including the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Migration Studies, Culture & Psychology, Third World Quarterly, Critical Studies on Terrorism, African Security Review, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 5245 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5512-5992 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezeolumba/ | |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@RealOlumba |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ezenwa-Olumba |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Methods
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Either/Mixed
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Qualitative research
Roles
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Aston University
University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Aston University
University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Leverhulme Early Career Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research
Choosing to stay: The Resilience-Accessibility Framework as a new perspective on immobility amidst adversity
| Authors | Ezenwa E Olumba |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Migration Studies |
Book Review: In Search of Home KlementCamaj R.. (2025). The Migration of Albanians from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States: In Search of Home. Oxford: Routledge. 173. $108.00.
| Authors | Ezenwa E. Olumba |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
Farmer-Herder Crises, Uncivil Discourses and the Politics of Nigeria's Security Responses
| Authors | Bernard Nwosu, Chukwuma Roland Okoli, Ezenwa Olumba, ... |
| Year | 2025 |
Who Belongs Where? The Politics of Internal Deportation, Nativism and Migration in Nigeria
| Authors | Ezenwa Olumba |
| Year | 2025 |
Patriarchal Restrictions and Maternal Manoeuvres: Igbo Women’s Quest for Land Inheritance Rights
| Authors | Victor Onyebueke, Bernard Nwosu, Nonso Uwaezuoke, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Gender and Sustainability in the Global South |
The necropolitics of drone bases and use in the African context
| Authors | Ezenwa E. Olumba |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Critical Studies on Terrorism |
Preserving the future through the past: Collective memory and immobility in adversity.
| Authors | Ezenwa E. Olumba |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology |
Trapped in Time and Place
| Authors | Ezenwa E. Olumba, Alessandra Gola, Lowe E. Mfon |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Diaspora Studies |
The case for a ‘cognitive turn’ in conflict analysis: Lessons from Afghanistan and the Sahel
| Authors | Ezenwa E. Olumba |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Global Change, Peace & Security |
Anchored in History: Understanding the Persistence of Eco-Violence in Nigeria’s Middle Belt through Collective Memory
| Authors | Ezenwa E. Olumba |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Genealogy |
The case for drones in counter-insurgency operations in West African Sahel
| Authors | Francis N. Okpaleke, Bernard Ugochukwu Nwosu, Chukwuma Rowland Okoli, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | African Security Review |
Book review: Mobility, mobilization, and counter/insurgency: the routes of terror in an African context
| Authors | Ezenwa Olumba |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Contemporary Voices: St Andrews Journal of International Relations |
The Politics of Eco-Violence: Why Is Conflict Escalating in Nigeria’s Middle Belt?
| Authors | Ezenwa E. Olumba |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Terrorism and Political Violence |
Security in the Lake Chad Basin and Sahel region after Idris Déby
| Authors | Chukwuma Rowland Okoli, Bernard U. Nwosu, Francis N. Okpaleke, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Small Wars & Insurgencies |
The homeless mind in a mobile world: An autoethnographic approach on cognitive immobility in international migration
| Authors | Ezenwa E. Olumba |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Culture & Psychology |
Conceptualising eco-violence: moving beyond the multiple labelling of water and agricultural resource conflicts in the Sahel
| Authors | Ezenwa E. Olumba, Bernard U. Nwosu, Francis N. Okpaleke, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Third World Quarterly |