Fekadu Adugna
Biographic Data
| ID | 643743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fekadu Adugna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fekadu |
| FAMILY NAME | Adugna |
| SIGNATURE | ADUGNA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Addis Ababa University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Examining Migrants’ Bounded Rationality in the Face of Ethiopia’s Legal Responses to Irregular Migration
This study examines the effectiveness of Ethiopia’s current legal responses in addressing irregular migration through the lens of bounded rationality. Although Ethiopia has implemented various legal responses, this study argues that these responses continue to be ineffective, because they fail to change the “cost‒benefit rational decision” of migrants. Through semi-structured interviews with 18 returnees nd five government officials, the findings…
A matter of time and contacts: Trans-local networks and long-term mobility of Eritrean refugees
Eritreans have experienced protracted conflict and displacement over the last half a century. Aside from marginalisation, immobilisation, highly constrained livelihood options and legal limbo, this has also created a complex and dynamic web of transnational networks of Eritrean refugees and diasporas around the world. In this paper, we argue that protractedly displaced people are not only entangled with forced immobility but also encounter opport…
Human Smuggling from Wollo, Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia: Askoblay Criminals or Enablers of Dreams
Sensationalist accounts of human smuggling from Ethiopia towards Saudi Arabia allege that operations are controlled by criminal networks who converge in a variety of illegal markets posing a threat to national security. Such convergence narratives construct Ethiopian human smuggling as an organized criminal business that extracts profits from and inflicts violence on vulnerable people seeking a clandestine passage to work in the Gulf States. Our …
Social Embeddedness of Human Smuggling in East Africa: Brokering Ethiopian Migration to Sudan
This article discusses the migration processes and brokering practices that link Ethiopia and Sudan by taking into account the social, economic, political and cultural underpinnings of human smuggling in the region. The analysis is based on three months of fieldwork using a conventional qualitative research methodology. Respondents were selected from actors such as smugglers, migrants and government personnel involved in the migration process, fa…
Overlapping nationalist projects and contested spaces: The Oromo-Somali borderlands in southern Ethiopia
Over the past few decades the inhabitants of the Oromo–Somali borderlands of southern Ethiopia have encountered three competing nationalisms: Ethiopian state nationalism (patriotism), Somali ethno-nationalism (irredentism), and Oromo ethno-nationalism. The territories and peoples claimed by each competing nationalism overlap. In the 1960s and 1970s Somali irredentist claims predominated, and generated a severe Ethiopian response. In the post-1991…
Making Use of Kin beyond the International Border Inter-ethnic Relations along the Ethio-Kenyan Border
Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa
Overlapping nationalist projects and contested spaces: The Oromo-Somali borderlands in southern Ethiopia
Over the past few decades the inhabitants of the Oromo–Somali borderlands of southern Ethiopia have encountered three competing nationalisms: Ethiopian state nationalism (patriotism), Somali ethno-nationalism (irredentism), and Oromo ethno-nationalism. The territories and peoples claimed by each competing nationalism overlap. In the 1960s and 1970s Somali irredentist claims predominated, and generated a severe Ethiopian response. In the post-1991…
A matter of time and contacts: Trans-local networks and long-term mobility of Eritrean refugees
Eritreans have experienced protracted conflict and displacement over the last half a century. Aside from marginalisation, immobilisation, highly constrained livelihood options and legal limbo, this has also created a complex and dynamic web of transnational networks of Eritrean refugees and diasporas around the world. In this paper, we argue that protractedly displaced people are not only entangled with forced immobility but also encounter opport…
Social Embeddedness of Human Smuggling in East Africa: Brokering Ethiopian Migration to Sudan
This article discusses the migration processes and brokering practices that link Ethiopia and Sudan by taking into account the social, economic, political and cultural underpinnings of human smuggling in the region. The analysis is based on three months of fieldwork using a conventional qualitative research methodology. Respondents were selected from actors such as smugglers, migrants and government personnel involved in the migration process, fa…
Making Use of Kin beyond the International Border Inter-ethnic Relations along the Ethio-Kenyan Border
Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa
Overlapping nationalist projects and contested spaces: The Oromo-Somali borderlands in southern Ethiopia
Over the past few decades the inhabitants of the Oromo–Somali borderlands of southern Ethiopia have encountered three competing nationalisms: Ethiopian state nationalism (patriotism), Somali ethno-nationalism (irredentism), and Oromo ethno-nationalism. The territories and peoples claimed by each competing nationalism overlap. In the 1960s and 1970s Somali irredentist claims predominated, and generated a severe Ethiopian response. In the post-1991…
Social Embeddedness of Human Smuggling in East Africa: Brokering Ethiopian Migration to Sudan
This article discusses the migration processes and brokering practices that link Ethiopia and Sudan by taking into account the social, economic, political and cultural underpinnings of human smuggling in the region. The analysis is based on three months of fieldwork using a conventional qualitative research methodology. Respondents were selected from actors such as smugglers, migrants and government personnel involved in the migration process, fa…
Human Smuggling from Wollo, Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia: Askoblay Criminals or Enablers of Dreams
Sensationalist accounts of human smuggling from Ethiopia towards Saudi Arabia allege that operations are controlled by criminal networks who converge in a variety of illegal markets posing a threat to national security. Such convergence narratives construct Ethiopian human smuggling as an organized criminal business that extracts profits from and inflicts violence on vulnerable people seeking a clandestine passage to work in the Gulf States. Our …
A matter of time and contacts: Trans-local networks and long-term mobility of Eritrean refugees
Eritreans have experienced protracted conflict and displacement over the last half a century. Aside from marginalisation, immobilisation, highly constrained livelihood options and legal limbo, this has also created a complex and dynamic web of transnational networks of Eritrean refugees and diasporas around the world. In this paper, we argue that protractedly displaced people are not only entangled with forced immobility but also encounter opport…
Examining Migrants’ Bounded Rationality in the Face of Ethiopia’s Legal Responses to Irregular Migration
This study examines the effectiveness of Ethiopia’s current legal responses in addressing irregular migration through the lens of bounded rationality. Although Ethiopia has implemented various legal responses, this study argues that these responses continue to be ineffective, because they fail to change the “cost‒benefit rational decision” of migrants. Through semi-structured interviews with 18 returnees nd five government officials, the findings…
Geography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works)