Nicholas Maple
Biographic Data
| ID | 939003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Maple |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Maple |
| SIGNATURE | MAPLE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7003-4930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Durable solutions
The three durable solutions (resettlement, local integration, and repatriation) are out of reach to most refugees. Even when they are offered, they are often watered down or repackaged, so that their durability has been undermined. This paper examines their contemporary role and framing and proposes an urgent recalibration of our understanding of the solutions based around three interlinked elements. First, to recover the core function of all thr…
The Free Movement of Persons in Southern Africa
The push for free movement of persons and inclusion policies in Southern Africa continues due to the perceived benefits to all migrants, including refugees and other forced migrants. Advocacy is commonly driven by normative frameworks derived from international legal protocols and nations' obligations to these mechanisms. However, these approaches often overlook the political, economic and social challenges that states face. In the Southern Afric…
The role of stability in the reception of refugees in Zambia
Despite the utility of securitisation theory in developing understandings of state behaviour towards refugee movement, a small body of work has questioned some of the broader assumptions that underpin it. This paper builds on these critiques, by interrogating the assumption that states frame all movement of refugees (cross-border and within the territory of the host state) as entirely negative. Using the case study of Zambia, the paper shows how …
The role of stability in the reception of refugees in Zambia
Compatible Compacts? The “Social Life” of Vulnerability, Migration Governance, and Protection at the Zimbabwe–South Africa Border
The central argument of this paper is that interventions of humanitarian organizations at the Zimbabwe–South Africa border reveal the importance placed on making very clear distinctions between those needing protection and those who do not. This is the case even in times wherein migrants have other protection needs that fall outside these boundaries or intersect with those of others. These boundaries are retained in the stable definitions of migr…
Introducing Perspectives on Displacement
The role of institutional architecture in the reception of refugees in South Africa
The Influence of the Global Refugee Regime in Africa
Local Integration
Local integration has long been seen as the “forgotten” durable solution to refugee displacement1 evidenced by the reluctance of governments across the world to accord refugees a new citizenship. This article goes further. It argues that local integration as a durable solution has not been merely forgotten, but deliberately avoided at a national, regional and international level. As a result, its veracity as a realistic durable solution for the m…
Immobility and the containment of solutions
Since negotiations began in 2015 on the two Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees, many within academia have felt uncomfortable engaging with the processes. This reflects a general weariness around new international cooperation agreements, the perceived control over the two processes by key international agencies, and an apparent lack of postcolonial voices in the drafting and consultation stages. However, with both Compacts now adopted, ther…
Global health (security), immigration governance and Covid-19 in South(ern) Africa
The Covid-19 pandemic provides a stark reminder of the political tensions associated with the field of immigration and health, highlighting the central role that nationalism, racism and xenophobia play in determining responses to communicable diseases. The blurring of global health, immigration governance, and the global health security agendas has long been recognised. However, an improved understanding of the politics influencing these entangle…
Contemporary Perspectives on Internal Displacement in Africa
On behalf of the editorial team at the Refugee Survey Quarterly,1 we are proud to present a Special Collection of research on the theme of internal displacement in Africa. Each of the five articles in this journal issue provides a distinct contemporary perspective on how internal displacement, and the response to it by governments, agencies, and local political and economic actors, plays out on the African continent. Moreover, to shed new light o…
Local Integration
Local integration has long been seen as the “forgotten” durable solution to refugee displacement1 evidenced by the reluctance of governments across the world to accord refugees a new citizenship. This article goes further. It argues that local integration as a durable solution has not been merely forgotten, but deliberately avoided at a national, regional and international level. As a result, its veracity as a realistic durable solution for the m…
Durable solutions
The three durable solutions (resettlement, local integration, and repatriation) are out of reach to most refugees. Even when they are offered, they are often watered down or repackaged, so that their durability has been undermined. This paper examines their contemporary role and framing and proposes an urgent recalibration of our understanding of the solutions based around three interlinked elements. First, to recover the core function of all thr…
Global health (security), immigration governance and Covid-19 in South(ern) Africa
The Covid-19 pandemic provides a stark reminder of the political tensions associated with the field of immigration and health, highlighting the central role that nationalism, racism and xenophobia play in determining responses to communicable diseases. The blurring of global health, immigration governance, and the global health security agendas has long been recognised. However, an improved understanding of the politics influencing these entangle…
The Influence of the Global Refugee Regime in Africa
Contemporary Perspectives on Internal Displacement in Africa
On behalf of the editorial team at the Refugee Survey Quarterly,1 we are proud to present a Special Collection of research on the theme of internal displacement in Africa. Each of the five articles in this journal issue provides a distinct contemporary perspective on how internal displacement, and the response to it by governments, agencies, and local political and economic actors, plays out on the African continent. Moreover, to shed new light o…
Immobility and the containment of solutions
Since negotiations began in 2015 on the two Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees, many within academia have felt uncomfortable engaging with the processes. This reflects a general weariness around new international cooperation agreements, the perceived control over the two processes by key international agencies, and an apparent lack of postcolonial voices in the drafting and consultation stages. However, with both Compacts now adopted, ther…
Global health (security), immigration governance and Covid-19 in South(ern) Africa
The Covid-19 pandemic provides a stark reminder of the political tensions associated with the field of immigration and health, highlighting the central role that nationalism, racism and xenophobia play in determining responses to communicable diseases. The blurring of global health, immigration governance, and the global health security agendas has long been recognised. However, an improved understanding of the politics influencing these entangle…
Contemporary Perspectives on Internal Displacement in Africa
On behalf of the editorial team at the Refugee Survey Quarterly,1 we are proud to present a Special Collection of research on the theme of internal displacement in Africa. Each of the five articles in this journal issue provides a distinct contemporary perspective on how internal displacement, and the response to it by governments, agencies, and local political and economic actors, plays out on the African continent. Moreover, to shed new light o…
Local Integration
Local integration has long been seen as the “forgotten” durable solution to refugee displacement1 evidenced by the reluctance of governments across the world to accord refugees a new citizenship. This article goes further. It argues that local integration as a durable solution has not been merely forgotten, but deliberately avoided at a national, regional and international level. As a result, its veracity as a realistic durable solution for the m…
The Influence of the Global Refugee Regime in Africa
The role of stability in the reception of refugees in Zambia
Despite the utility of securitisation theory in developing understandings of state behaviour towards refugee movement, a small body of work has questioned some of the broader assumptions that underpin it. This paper builds on these critiques, by interrogating the assumption that states frame all movement of refugees (cross-border and within the territory of the host state) as entirely negative. Using the case study of Zambia, the paper shows how …
The role of stability in the reception of refugees in Zambia
Compatible Compacts? The “Social Life” of Vulnerability, Migration Governance, and Protection at the Zimbabwe–South Africa Border
The central argument of this paper is that interventions of humanitarian organizations at the Zimbabwe–South Africa border reveal the importance placed on making very clear distinctions between those needing protection and those who do not. This is the case even in times wherein migrants have other protection needs that fall outside these boundaries or intersect with those of others. These boundaries are retained in the stable definitions of migr…
Introducing Perspectives on Displacement
The role of institutional architecture in the reception of refugees in South Africa
Durable solutions
The three durable solutions (resettlement, local integration, and repatriation) are out of reach to most refugees. Even when they are offered, they are often watered down or repackaged, so that their durability has been undermined. This paper examines their contemporary role and framing and proposes an urgent recalibration of our understanding of the solutions based around three interlinked elements. First, to recover the core function of all thr…
The Free Movement of Persons in Southern Africa
The push for free movement of persons and inclusion policies in Southern Africa continues due to the perceived benefits to all migrants, including refugees and other forced migrants. Advocacy is commonly driven by normative frameworks derived from international legal protocols and nations' obligations to these mechanisms. However, these approaches often overlook the political, economic and social challenges that states face. In the Southern Afric…
Political science (12 works) · Refugee (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Development economics (4 works)