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Mobility & Migration & Citizenship & Security [clear filter]
Thursday, October 24
 

1:45pm EAT

Arab-African Encounters: Historical and Contemporary Knowledge Impacts
Presenters:
  • Afrabia and The Cultural Interactions Between Africa and The Arabs (Hamdy Hassan)
  • Area Studies in Egypt: Goals and Reality (Mohamed Ashour)
  • Contextualizing East African History: An Alternative to the Area Studies Model (Ahmed Salem)
  • Knowledge Sharing and Institutional Learning in the Extractive Industry: Comparing Local Content Policies in the UAE and Ghana (Joshua Zaato and Shafic Suleman)

Moderator
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Hamdy Hassan

Professor, Zayed university

Presenters

Thursday October 24, 2019 1:45pm - 3:00pm EAT
USIU Auditorium Backroom USIU Road, Nairobi, Kenya

3:15pm EAT

Citizenship, the Nation and Belonging in East Africa
Presenters:
  • Curriculum review and the politics of teaching history for national integration in Kenyan Universities (Peter Wafula Wekesa and Enock Mogire Nyakundi)
  • Meaningful Citizenship in the Kenyan Context: Teachers as Agents of Change (Lahra Smith)
  • Local governance and community participation in Implementation of Social Protection Schemes in rural Ethiopia (Yerosan Mesfin Tefera)
  • Beyond the Monolingual National Vision: Multilingualism as a Marker of Belonging in Kenya and Tanzania (Andrew Marshall)
  • Regional and National Efforts to Promote Access to Nationality and Citizenship in East Africa (Allehone Abebe)

Moderator
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Pius Kakai Wanyonyi

Kenyatta University

Presenters
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Lahra Smith

Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgetown University
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Andrew Marshall

Georgetown University


Thursday October 24, 2019 3:15pm - 4:30pm EAT
USIU Auditorium Backroom USIU Road, Nairobi, Kenya

4:45pm EAT

African Migration I
Presenters:
  • Everyday Border Crossings: New realities to the Eritrea-Ethiopian border (Okubaghergis Biyan Ghebreyesus)
  • The in-flow of Refugees in the Tanzanian Northern Western Border Regions: Contribution to illegal trafficking and arms importation (Emmanuel Marius)
  • Understanding The Cross-border Dynamics Of New Forms Of Violent Conflicts In Tanzania (Walwa William John)
  • Tozoluka: Transnational migration and the navigation of new subjectivities by Congolese car-guards in urban South Africa (Minga Mbweck Kongo)

Moderator
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Lahra Smith

Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgetown University

Presenters

Thursday October 24, 2019 4:45pm - 5:30pm EAT
USIU DVC Student Affairs Board Room (Freida Brown Building) USIU Road, Nairobi, Kenya
 
Friday, October 25
 

5:00pm EAT

African Migration II
Presenters:
  • South African Attitudes toward Immigrants (Jones Terry-Ann)
  • Strategizing in Transit: African Migrants in Transit Think their way out of Neoliberal-Humanitarian Capture (Ampson Hagan)
  • The Effectiveness of the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Act in Kenya: 2010-2018 (Joanita Nantume)
  • Migration, Adaptation Theories & Cultural Disruptions In Kobina Sekyi’s ‘the Blinkards’ (B. Bana)
  • Contemporary Approaches to Migration Governance in Southern Africa (Tamara Last)
  • A Historical Relationship Between Migrancy, Nativism and Citizenship in Uganda, 1894-1995 (Nicholas Tunanukye)

Moderator
Presenters
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Nicholas Tunanukye

PhD Fellow, Makerere University
Nicholas Tunanukye, is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of History Makerere University. He specialises in Socio-economic History. His research interests are in the history of people's Identities, migrations and belonging.He is currently interrogating the implication of migrancy... Read More →


Friday October 25, 2019 5:00pm - 6:30pm EAT
USIU Business School B4 USIU Road, Nairobi, Kenya
 
Saturday, October 26
 

3:15pm EAT

African Migration III
Presenters:
  • The Dynamics Of Identity And Placemaking Among The Somali Diaspora In Nairobi And Johannesburg (Nereida Ripero-Muñiz)
  • Role of humanitarianism in sustaining refugee vulnerability: Case of Somalis at Dagahaley refugee camp in Kenya (Fred Nyongesa Ikanda)
  • Assessing Climate Change as a Factor Affecting Asylum Seeking and Refugee Status (Perpetua Angima)
  • Belonging Beyond Borders: Cultural Connections of The African Diaspora to Ghana (Mjiba Frehiwot and Harriet Boateng Aduako)


Saturday October 26, 2019 3:15pm - 4:45pm EAT
USIU Business School LT1 USIU Road, Nairobi, Kenya
 


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