From a ‘crisis of migration’ to everyday ‘mobile livelihoods’
Caitlin Sturridge outlines the growing evidence for understanding mobility as a relatively unremarkable part of everyday life, development and change.
0402, 2022
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1705, 2021
Extreme risk makes the journey feasible
What is the role of risk in determining how people move? New research shows how the extreme danger of kidnapping and extortion by traffickers opens up a narrow window of opportunity for some young Somalis to find a way to reach Europe.
0303, 2021
What is adaptation and resilience in the context of environmental change? : Case studies from Laikipia and Turkana Counties, Kenya
Watch The Research and Evidence Facility’s debut webinar highlighting findings from environmental change and resilience research in Kenya.
0110, 2020
Moving in contexts of environmental change: a rural–urban livelihoods perspective from Laikipia, Kenya
Caitlin Sturridge This paper explores physical movements, and the translocal connections that accompany them, through the perspective of rural–urban livelihoods in Laikipia County, Kenya. In doing so, it sets out an alternative perspective to some of the common assumptions about how people move in contexts of environmental change and to the ways in which livelihoods adapt in the process. Rural–urban livelihoods play an increasingly important role in the local economies
0103, 2020
Migration and migration management on the Ethiopia–Sudan border: Research from Metema
Oliver Bakewell, Kiya Gezahegne, Kelklachew Ali and Caitlin Sturridge This research project examines the interests of a range of stakeholders in different forms of migration in Metema, Ethiopia, in particular those who are indirectly involved in designing migration responses, such as the Bureau of Agriculture, health and education staff, traders and local community leaders. It asks what they know about migration, smuggling and trafficking, and what they see as the
0102, 2020
Comprehensive Refugee Responses in the Horn of Africa: Regional leadership on education, livelihoods and durable solutions
Laura Hammond, Caitlin Sturridge, Kalyango Ronald Sebba, Michael Owiso, Mohamed Mahdi, Farah Manji, and Abdinasir Ali Osman Since 2017, countries in the Horn of Africa have been developing a coordinated and comprehensive, ‘whole of society’ approach to supporting areas affected by refugee displacement. This process has benefited from the soft political power of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which has brought heads of state, ministers, and technical staff together
0106, 2019
The Impact of Youth Training and Employment on Migration Dynamics in the Horn of Africa
Oliver Bakewell and Caitlin Sturridge This report explores the relationship between technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programming and changing patterns of migration in the Horn of Africa (HoA). Investments in TVET programmes in the HoA are designed to improve young people’s skills, strengthen the local labour market and boost their chances of finding employment, thereby reducing their incentives to follow irregular migration paths across the region or beyond.
0101, 2019
Disrupting the Finances of Criminal Networks Responsible for Human Smuggling and Trafficking
Emmanuel Deisser (lead author), Caitlin Sturridge, Laura Hammond and Amanda Sperber Over the last two years, human traffickers and smugglers in East and North Africa have shifted their business models in response to efforts to contain migration flows to Europe, resulting in notable shifts in migration patterns. At the same time, the European Union (EU) has deepened its understanding of how human smugglers and traffickers use money laundering and other
0106, 2018
Return and (Re)Integration after Displacement: Belonging, Labelling and Livelihoods in Three Somali Cities
Caitlin Sturridge, Oliver Bakewell and Laura Hammond Somalia is experiencing a complex situation of protracted and new internal displacement, organised and spontaneous repatriation of refugees, people returning from the diaspora, and arrival of deported asylum seekers and migrants from other countries. The enormous scale of these movements towards major cities has led to overcrowding and added pressure on infrastructure, housing and services. Poor living standards, insecurity, protection issues and restricted
2507, 2017
Migration Between the Horn of Africa and Yemen: A Study of Puntland, Djibouti and Yemen
Caitlin Sturridge, Oliver Bakewell and Laura Hammond This report on migration between the Horn of Africa and Yemen was produced by the Research and Evidence Facility (REF) at the request of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF). The project involved primary and secondary data collection in Puntland, Djibouti and Yemen between January and June 2017. The objective of the research is to better understand what is driving