Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Migration

This Handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration. It endeavours to present a single source on issues such as migration history, trends, migrant profiles, narratives, migration-development nexus, migration governance, diasporas, impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, among others.

Daniel Makina is a Professor of Economic Sciences at the University of South Africa. He holds a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His research interests include migration economics, financial inclusion in emerging markets, and FinTech. He has published in academic journals such as International Migration, Migration Letters, Applied Economics, Applied Financial Economics, the Journal of Developing Societies, African Finance Journal, African Development Review, among others. His recent edited volume is Extending Financial Inclusion in Africa published in 2019.

Dominic Pasura is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick, UK. His research interests include migration, transnationalism, and diaspora, in particular the new African diasporas. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited books. He is the author of African Transnational Diasporas: Fractured Communities and Plural Identities of Zimbabweans in Britain (2014) and co-editor of Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism: Global Perspectives (2016). He is the Principal Investigator on the UK Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) three-year funded grant project, ’The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Transnational Young People of African Migrant Background, ’ which commenced in May 2023.