Migration and Conflict

The Integration of Burkinabe Migrants Displaced from Côte d’Ivoire

Author: Andrea Riester.

Series: TIAS Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies Volume 33

Migration and Conflict contributes to transnationalism research and ethnographic writing about Westafrica. It deals with questions of integration and collective identity in the context of migration by looking into the multi-ethnic and multi-religious locality of Batié in southwest Burkina Faso. The town experienced rapid social change brought about by the arrival of a large number of displaced migrants from Côte d’Ivoire during the civil war in 2002-3. The book analyses conflicts between these rapatriés and non-migrants as negotiations about identity and belonging.

Andrea Riester studied Social Anthropology, Political Science and Economics at Freiburg im Breisgau and Glasgow. She received her PhD from the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). She works as migration expert for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

Under these links you will find further empirical studies on migration and transnationalism research:

Accompanying material:

• Lifeworlds of Young Men beyond Migration and Immobility in Pikine, Senegal (ISBN 978-3-89645-914-5)
• Nomades des espaces interstitiels (ISBN 978-3-89645-252-8)
• Spaces in Movement (ISBN 978-3-89645-905-3)
• The Global Nuer (ISBN 978-3-89645-908-4)

Cross-reference:

• “Safe Havens” for Refugees (ISBN 978-3-89645-339-6)
• Arbeit, Sklaverei und Erinnerung (ISBN 978-3-89645-349-5)
• Asylverfahren und Gerechtigkeit (ISBN 978-3-89645-854-4)
• Les Fulbe du Boobola (ISBN 978-3-89645-301-3)
• The Ingrained Art of Survival (ISBN 978-3-89645-250-4)

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