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African migration and the diaspora have become central to contemporary debates on governance, development, and global inequality. Migration and the African Diaspora: Materialities of Governance and Development offers a critical and empirically grounded exploration of how migration shapes, and is shaped by, institutional frameworks, lived experience, and transnational relations.
Bringing together original research from across Africa and African diasporic contexts, this edited volume examines international migration through interconnected themes of governance, development, remittances, gender, climate change, labour exploitation, and diaspora engagement. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative studies, contributors analyse migration processes and outcomes across diverse empirical settings, including Sub Saharan Africa, Canada, the Middle East, and African transnational family networks. Chapters interrogate issues such as remittance economies and leakage, the climate change–migration nexus, development impacts of mobility, gendered health and labour experiences, modern slavery, and the social obligations facing migrants and their left behind families. The volume also offers a critical assessment of African states’ diaspora engagement policies and continental migration frameworks, questioning assumptions of reciprocity and inclusion in governance narratives.
This collection advances an African centred perspective that foregrounds material realities, power relations, and institutional dynamics. It is insightful reading for scholars and students in migration studies, African studies, development studies, sociology, political science, human geography, and diaspora and transnational studies.
Ọláyínká Àkànle is Professor of Sociology at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. His intersectional research interests include Migration and Diaspora Studies; Gender; Governance and Environment; Epistemology and Knowledge Production; Family and Sexuality; Child and Youth; Conflict, Crime and Security and Health and Medicine.
Chapter 1. Answering the Governance and Development Question: Migration, the African Diaspora and Materialities; Ọláyínká Àkànle
Section 1. Remittance, Climate Change and Development
Chapter 2. Remittance Leakage and the Migration–Gambling Nexus: Rethinking Family Economies in Africa; Rowland Edet and Beulah Suleman
Chapter 3. Climate Change-Migration Nexus in Africa: Evidence from Mediation and Moderation Effect Analyses; Joshua Adeyemi Afolabi, Isiaka Akande Raifu, and Damian Chidozie Uzoma-Nwosu
Chapter 4. Development Impacts of International Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa; Ọláyínká Àkànle, Tirimisiyu Yemi Olabulo, and Goodluck Uzieyi
Section 2. Migration, Gender and the Lived Experiences of African Diaspora
Chapter 5. Imagining Canada: Hope, Networks and Imagined Futures among Prospective African Skilled Migrants; Ashika Niraula
Chapter 6. Gendered Health Experiences of African Immigrant Women in Canada: The Case of Nigerian Women; Olayinka Damilola Ola-Lawson and Ọláyínká Àkànle
Chapter 7. Modern Slavery, Agents’ Mistreatment and International Migration of Kenyans to the Middle East; Rebecca Chepkoech Barno
Chapter 8. Black Tax: The Experiences and obligations of African Migrants to their Left-behind Families; Demilade Ifeoluwa Kayode and Dauda A. Busari
Section 3. African Diaspora Engagement and Frameworks
Chapter 9. The Illusion of Belonging and Reciprocity: Diaspora Engagement Policies of African States as Vehicles for Extractive Relationships; Theophilus Kwabena Abutima, Patrick Yirenkyi Amoah, and Leander Kandilige
Chapter 10. Migration, Diaspora and the Existential Condition of African Migrants in the African Union’s Migration Frameworks; Antia Aniekeme and Tunde A. Alabi
Chapter 11. Fundamentals for Sustainability of Africa: The Migration, African Diaspora, Governance and Development Calculus; Ọláyínká Àkànle