"Dr Muluka has woven a revealing tapestry on migration in all its facets. With migration from South Sudan as the focus, he has in an incisive, analytical and masterful style handled a delicate subject with intellectual rigour and dexterity: 'Home and Exile' is enriching'
PLO Lumumba, The PLO LUMUMBA FOUNDATION and LUMUMBA AND LUMUMBA ADVOCATES
In Home and Exile, Muluka highlights the lengths people will go to in seeking a hospitable place to live, even if this takes them a long distance from the places they otherwise memorialise as home. Muluka richly details people's experiences and future expectations of home in situations of protracted displacement, as well as their tension with migration policy. His account of Kakuma offers a compelling insight into exile and the complexity of longing for home.Kelly Staples, Author of Re-theorising Statelessness: A background theory of membership in world politics
'Home and Exile is an insightful and masterfully pragmatic intervention making it essential reading for anyone working on refugee issues. The book also shines a light on the dreams of those who abandon everything they know in search of a better future. Through the book, Dr. Muluka takes us through the ugly side of forced migration and highlights the need for a humane reform framework that includes the reasons that force so many to leave their loved ones and countries behind."Evelyn Jepkemei (PhD), Educationist, Advisory Board Member, The East African Centre for Forced Migration & Displacement
Barrack O. Muluka is a politics and international relations scholar with a focus on migration studies. He earned his PhD from the University of Leicester's School of History and Social Sciences and holds both graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Nairobi, including a Master of Arts in Armed Conflict and Peace Studies, a Postgraduate Diploma in Mass Communications, and a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics. He has experience in publishing and public communications and is a widely published commentator on political issues.
This book brings together contributions on the challenges of the environment, agriculture and cross-border migrations in Africa; key areas that have become critical for the continent’s development. The central theme running through these contributions is that Africa’s development challenges can be attributed to its human and natural ecology. Contrasted with the Cold War epoch, current developments have ushered us into a world of long and uncertain transitions characterized by a search for new pathways including investment in large-scale agriculture by big finance, attempts to revitalize existing agriculture and reworking of social policy. A major twist relates to environmental questions, especially climate change and its global effects, leading to all forms of cross-border migrations and the emergence of new areas of strategic interest such as sub-regional developments as in the Gulf of Guinea. This book provides some intellectual clues on how to interpret these emerging predicaments and chart a way forward into a new era for Africa.
Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo is a university professor (Professeur des Universités) in Sociology and Demography (Qualification 19e section, Conseil national des Universités, France). He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Buea, where he has lectured in sociology and anthropology since 1993. His most notable publications are Civil Society and the Search for Development Alternatives in Cameroon (edited, CODESRIA, 2008) and Inventer un nouvel espace public en Afrique: Le défi de la diversité ethnique (Harmattan, 2011). His numerous other publications are in the domain of the sociology of development, political sociology, ethnicity, inter-cultural relations and intercommunity relations within the modern nation state. He is a member of the executive committee of the Council for the Development of Social science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).
ISBN : 978 286978 604 2
CODESRIA 2015