Of Mukhalas and Magafe: Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • Asylum seekers
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Biography
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International

• UN Countries

  • Ethiopia
  • Germany
  • Kenya
  • Libya
  • Somalia
  • Sudan