Book 1: Human Trafficking and Trauma in the Digital Era The Ongoing Tragedy of the Trade in Refugees from Eritrea.

Edited by Mirjam Van Reisen & Munyaradzi Mawere (2017)

Book Chapters

  • Chapter 1 – Introduction by Mirjam van Reisen ………… 12

 

Part 1 – The Ongoing Human Trafficking Crises ………… 17
  • Chapter 2 – Human Trafficking in the Sinai: Mapping the Routes and Facilitators by Mirjam Van Reisen, Meron Estefanos & Lena Reim ………… 19
  • Chapter 3 – The Exodus from Eritrea and Who is Benefiting by Mirjam Van Reisen & Meron Estefanos ………… 95
  • Chapter 4 – Human Trafficking Connecting to Terrorism and Organ Trafficking: Libya and Egypt by Mirjam Van Reisen & Meron Estefanos ………… 159
  • Chapter 5 – Eritrean Unaccompanied Minors in Human Trafficking by Mirjam van Reisen & Taha Al-Qasim ………… 193
  • Chapter 6 – The Fragmentation of Families: Eritrean Women in Exile in Uganda by Eyob Ghilazghy, Sacha Kuilman & Lena Reim ………… 221

 

Part 2 – Severe Trauma ………… 269
  • Chapter 7: The Trauma of Survivors of Sinai Trafficking by Mirjam Van Reisen, Selam Kidane & Lena Reim ………… 271

  • Chapter 8: Collective Trauma from Sinai Trafficking: A Blow to the Fabric of Eritrean Society by Selam Kidane & Mirjam Van Reisen ………… 317

 

Part 3 – A Crises of Accountability ………… 347
  • Chapter 9: Crimes against Humanity: The Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea by Susan Höfner & Zara Tewolde-Berhan ………… 349

  • Chapter 10: The Long Arm of the Eritrean Regime in the Netherlands by Klara Smits, DSP-Group & Tilburg University ………… 369

  • Chapter 11: Atlantic Council: The Eritrean Regime’s US Spin Doctors? by François Christophe ………… 405

  • Chapter 12: The Policy Agenda in Europe and Africa by Zara Tewolde-Berhan, Martin Plaut, & Klara Smits ………… 429

  • Chapter 13: Prosecuting Sinai Trafficking: An Overview of Options by Daniel Mekonnen & Wegi Sereke …………. 465


 

Book 2 - Roaming Africa: Migration, Resilience and Social Protection.

Edited by Mirjam Van Reisen, Mia Stokmans, Munyaradzi Mawere & Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher (2019)

Book Chapters

Preface by Zaminah Malole ………… i

 

Part 1 – Theoretical Perspectives ………… 1
  • Chapter 1: Roaming Africa: A Social Analysis of Migration and Resilience by Mirjam Van Reisen, Mia Stokmans, Munyaradzi Mawere & Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher ………… 12
  • Chapter 2: All or Nothing: The Costs of Migration from the Horn of Africa – Evidence from Ethiopia by Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher …………. 37
  • Chapter 3: Why do Foreign Solutions not Work in Africa? Recognising Alternate Epistemologies by Gertjan Van Stam ………… 55
 
Part 2 – Living Borders …………. 83
  • Chapter 4: Continuation of Care across Borders: Providing Health Care for People on the Move in East Africa by Dorothy Muroki, Boniface Kitungulu & Leanne Kamau ………… 85
  • Chapter 5: Mobility as a Social Process: Conflict Management in the Border Areas of Afar Region by Abdelah Alifnur & Mirjam Van Reisen ………… 109

 

Part 3 – New Perspectives in Migration ………… 141
  • Chapter 6: Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire: Are Climate Disasters Fuelling Human Trafficking in Kenya? by Radoslaw Malinowski & Mario Schulze ………… 143
  • Chapter 7: Standing in Two Worlds: Mobility and the Connectivity of Diaspora Communities by Antony Otieno Ong’ayo ………… 171
  • Chapter 8: ‘Europe is not Worth Dying For’: The Dilemma facing Somalis in Europe by Melissa Phillips & Mingo Heiduk ………… 203
  • Chapter 9: Countering Radicalisation in Communities: The Case of Pumwani, Nairobi by Reginald Nalugala ………… 225
 
Part 4: Livelihoods ………… 253
  • Chapter 10: Moving on to Make a Living: The Secondary Migration of Eritrean Refugees in Tigray, Ethiopia by Bereket Godifay Kahsay ………… 255
  • Chapter 11: Inhospitable Realities: Refugees’ Livelihoods in Hitsats, Ethiopia by Kristína Melicherová ………… 283
  • Chapter 12: Young and On their Own: The Protection of Eritrean Refugee Children in Tigray, Ethiopia by Tekie Gebreyesus & Rick Schoenmaeckers …………. 315

 

Part 5: The Challenges of Return Migration ………… 345
  • Chapter 13: Home, but not Home: Reintegration of Ethiopian Women Returning from the Arabian Gulf by Beza L. Nisrane ………… 347
  • Chapter 14: Shattered Dreams: Life after Deportation for Ethiopian Returnees from Saudi Arabia by Shishay Tadesse Abay ………… 377
  • Chapter 15: Life after the Lord’s Resistance Army: Support for Formerly Abducted Girls in Northern Uganda by Primrose Nakazibwe & Mirjam Van Reisen ………… 407
 
Part 6: Social Protection ………… 433
  • Chapter 16: Is Trauma Counselling the Missing Link? Enhancing Socio-Economic Resilience among Post-war IDPs in Northern Uganda by Mirjam Van Reisen, Mia Stokmans, Primrose Nakazibwe, Zaminah Malole & Bertha Vallejo ………… 435
  • Chapter 17: Roaming Lifestyles: Designing Social Protection for the Pastoralist Afar in Ethiopia by Zeremariam Fre & Naomi Dixon ………… 459
  • Chapter 18: Where is your Brother? Religious Leaders in Eritrea Offer a Counter Narrative to Totalitarianism by Makeda Saba ………… 483

 

Chapter 7: Defining Responsibilities at the National Level ………… 519
  • Chapter 19: Peace, but no Progress: Eritrea, an Unconstitutional State by Bereket Selassie & Mirjam Van Reisen ………… 521
  • Chapter 20: Moving Through the Policy Window: Women in Constitution Making in Kenya by Stella Maranga ………… 557
  • Chapter 21: Where are the Youth? The Missing Agenda in Somalia’s Constitution by Istar Ahmed ………… 577

Book 3 - Mobile Africa: Human Trafficking and the Digital Divide

Edited by Mirjam van Reisen, Munyaradzi Mawere, Mia Stokmans and Kinfe Gebre-Egziabher (2019)
Mobile Africa Human Trafficking and the Digital Divide

Book Chapters

Preface by Chief Fortune Charumbira

 

Part 1 – Theoretical Perspectives ………… 1
  • Chapter 1: Black Holes in the Global Digital Landscape: The Fuelling of Human Trafficking on the African Continent by Mirjam Van Reisen, Munyaradzi Mawere, Mia Stokmans, Primrose Nakazibwe, Gertjan Van Stam & Antony Otieno Ong’ayo ………… 3
  • Chapter 2: Network Gatekeepers in Human Trafficking: Profiting from the Misery of Eritreans in the Digital Era by Mirjam Van Reisen, Klara Smits, Mia Stokmans & Munyaradzi Mawere ………… 33
  • Chapter 3: Bound Together in the Digital Era: Poverty, Migration and Human Trafficking by Munyaradzi Mawere …………63
  • Chapter 4: Tortured on Camera: The Use of ICTs in Trafficking for Ransom by Amber Van Esseveld ………… 91

 

Part 2 – Traumatizing Trajectories ………… 113
  • Chapter 5: ‘Sons of Isaias’: Slavery and Indefinite National Service in Eritrea by Mirjam Van Reisen, Makeda Saba & Klara Smits ………… 115
  • Chapter 6: Journeys of Youth in Digital Africa: Pulled by Connectivity by Rick Schoenmaeckers ………… 169
  • Chapter 7: Not a People’s Peace: Eritrean Refugees Fleeing from the Horn of African to Kenya by Sophie Kamala Kuria & Merhawi Tesfatsion Araya ………… 189
  • Chapter 8: Israel’s ‘Voluntary’ Return Policy to Expel Refugees: The Illusion of Choice by Yael Agur Orgal, Gilad Liberman & Sigal Kook Avivi …………. 209
  • Chapter 9: The Plight of Refugees in Agadez in Niger: From Crossroad to Dead End by Morgane Wirtz ………… 239
  • Chapter 10: Lawless Libya: Unprotected Refugees Kept Powerless and Silenced by Mirjam Van Reisen, Klara Smits & Morgane Wirtz ………… 261
  • Chapter 11: The Voices of African Migrants in Europe: Isaka’s Resilience by Robert M. Press ………… 295
  • Chapter 12: Desperate Journeys: The Need for Trauma Support for Refugees by Selam Kidane & Mia Stokmans ………… 323
  • Chapter 13: Identifying Survivors of Torture: “I Never Told What Happened to Me in the Sinai” by Sigal Rozen ………… 353

 

Part 3 – Psychological Impact of Ongoing Trauma ………… 393
  • Chapter 14: Refugee Parenting in Ethiopia and the Netherlands: Being an Eritrean Parent Outside the Country by Bénédicte Mouton, Rick Schoenmaeckers & Mirjam Van Reisen ………… 395
  • Chapter 15: Journeys of Trust and Hope: Unaccompanied Minors from Eritrea in Ethiopia and the Netherlands by Rick Schoenmaeckers, Taha Al-Qasim & Carlotta Zanzottera ………… 425
  • Chapter 16: Refugees’ Right to Family Unity in Belgium and the Netherlands: ‘Life is Nothing without Family’ by Mirjam Van Reisen, Eva Berends, Lucie Delecolle, Jakob Hagenberg, Marco Paron Trivellato & Naomi Stocker ………… 449
 
Part 4 – Problem Framing ………… 495
  • Chapter 17: The Representation of Human Trafficking in Documentaries: Vulnerable Victims and Shadowy Villains by Nataliia Vdovychenko ………… 497
  • Chapter 18: Language Dominance in the Framing of Problems and Solutions: The Language of Mobility by Munyaradzi Mawere, Mirjam Van Reisen & Gertjan Van Stam ………… 527
 
Part 5 – Extra-territorialism of Migration and International Responsibilities ………… 557
  • Chapter 19: The Shaping of the EU’s Migration Policy: The Tragedy of Lampedusa as a Turning Point by Klara Smits & Ioanna Karagianni ………… 559
  • Chapter 20: Sudan and the EU: Uneasy Bedfellows by Maddy Crowther & Martin Plaut ………… 593
  • Chapter 21: Uncomfortable Aid: INGOs in Eritrea by Makeda Saba ………… 631
  • Chapter 22: Complicity in Torture: The Accountability of the EU for Human Rights Abuses against Refugees and Migrants in Libya by Wegi Sereke & Daniel Mekonnen ………… 673
  • Chapter 23: Playing Cat and Mouse: How Europe Evades Responsibility for its Role in Human Rights Abuses of Migrants and Refugees by Annick Pijnenburg & Conny Rijken ………… 697