Marc Sommers
Biographic Data
| ID | 95755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Sommers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Sommers |
| SIGNATURE | SOMMERS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Africa Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania
Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are young refugee men who migrate to urban areas. This volume, the first full-length study of urban refugees in hiding, tells the story of Burundi refugee youth who escaped from remote camps in central Tanzania to work in one of Africa's fastest-growing cities, Dar es Salaam. This steamy, rundo…
Stuck: Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood
Urban youth in Africa
It is widely assumed that most Africans reside in rural areas, that African cities make little economic sense and are unusually violent because so many unemployed young men live there, and that urban migrant youth can be drawn back to their former rural homes. This paper challenges all of these assumptions. In the process, it reviews dominant trends in Africa’s rapid urban expansion and examines what life is like for urban youth. I will argue tha…
Liberia: The Eye of the Storm: A Review of the Literature on Internally Displaced, Refugees, and Returnees
One of the most prominent, and from a humanitarian and human rights perspective most troubling aspects of internal conflicts during recent years is the plight of the internally displaced persons, and refugees. Forced to leave their homes in search of refuge, internally displaced persons often find themselves with little protection, with unclear rights, and without safe livelihoods. While their most important support generally comes from the commu…
Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania
Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania (Studies in Forced Migration)
Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are young refugee men who migrate to urban areas. This volume, the first full-length study of urban refugees in hiding, tells the story of Burundi refugee youth who escaped from remote camps in central Tanzania to work in one of Africa's fastest-growing cities, Dar es Salaam. This steamy, rundo…
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide
The Migration Experience in Africa
Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania, Lüsa H. Malkki. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 352 pp
Rwandan Youths and the African Future
Notoriety in Africa
Representing Refugees: The Role of Elites in Burundi Refugee Society
Among Burundi refugees in Tanzania, men who have a university education and know English or French are most likely to represent their concerns to officials, particularly those from UNHCR. Officials consequently learn about the perspectives of refugees from these men. Based upon findings from two years of field, research in Tanzania, the history of relations between ethnic Hutu elites and the peasantry in Burundi is outlined and it is explained wh…
The Political Economy of African Famine
Confronting the Future: The Effects of the Repatriation Program on a New Generation of Burundi Refugees
The goals of this paper are threefold: to provide context for the voluntary repatriation program for Burundirefugees in Tanzania; to considersome assumptions inherent within it; and to describe some of the effects of the plan on refugees, particularly on members of the younger generation. The views are based upon preliminary data analysis and should be considered as such
Wohnstandortgerechte städtische Mietzinse: Eine Fallstudie Zürich
Urban youth in Africa
It is widely assumed that most Africans reside in rural areas, that African cities make little economic sense and are unusually violent because so many unemployed young men live there, and that urban migrant youth can be drawn back to their former rural homes. This paper challenges all of these assumptions. In the process, it reviews dominant trends in Africa’s rapid urban expansion and examines what life is like for urban youth. I will argue tha…
Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania (Studies in Forced Migration)
Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are young refugee men who migrate to urban areas. This volume, the first full-length study of urban refugees in hiding, tells the story of Burundi refugee youth who escaped from remote camps in central Tanzania to work in one of Africa's fastest-growing cities, Dar es Salaam. This steamy, rundo…
Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania, Lüsa H. Malkki. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 352 pp
Representing Refugees: The Role of Elites in Burundi Refugee Society
Among Burundi refugees in Tanzania, men who have a university education and know English or French are most likely to represent their concerns to officials, particularly those from UNHCR. Officials consequently learn about the perspectives of refugees from these men. Based upon findings from two years of field, research in Tanzania, the history of relations between ethnic Hutu elites and the peasantry in Burundi is outlined and it is explained wh…
The Political Economy of African Famine
Wohnstandortgerechte städtische Mietzinse: Eine Fallstudie Zürich
Confronting the Future: The Effects of the Repatriation Program on a New Generation of Burundi Refugees
The goals of this paper are threefold: to provide context for the voluntary repatriation program for Burundirefugees in Tanzania; to considersome assumptions inherent within it; and to describe some of the effects of the plan on refugees, particularly on members of the younger generation. The views are based upon preliminary data analysis and should be considered as such
The Political Economy of African Famine
Rwandan Youths and the African Future
Notoriety in Africa
Representing Refugees: The Role of Elites in Burundi Refugee Society
Among Burundi refugees in Tanzania, men who have a university education and know English or French are most likely to represent their concerns to officials, particularly those from UNHCR. Officials consequently learn about the perspectives of refugees from these men. Based upon findings from two years of field, research in Tanzania, the history of relations between ethnic Hutu elites and the peasantry in Burundi is outlined and it is explained wh…
The Migration Experience in Africa
Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania, Lüsa H. Malkki. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 352 pp
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide
Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania (Studies in Forced Migration)
Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are young refugee men who migrate to urban areas. This volume, the first full-length study of urban refugees in hiding, tells the story of Burundi refugee youth who escaped from remote camps in central Tanzania to work in one of Africa's fastest-growing cities, Dar es Salaam. This steamy, rundo…
Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania
Liberia: The Eye of the Storm: A Review of the Literature on Internally Displaced, Refugees, and Returnees
One of the most prominent, and from a humanitarian and human rights perspective most troubling aspects of internal conflicts during recent years is the plight of the internally displaced persons, and refugees. Forced to leave their homes in search of refuge, internally displaced persons often find themselves with little protection, with unclear rights, and without safe livelihoods. While their most important support generally comes from the commu…
Urban youth in Africa
It is widely assumed that most Africans reside in rural areas, that African cities make little economic sense and are unusually violent because so many unemployed young men live there, and that urban migrant youth can be drawn back to their former rural homes. This paper challenges all of these assumptions. In the process, it reviews dominant trends in Africa’s rapid urban expansion and examines what life is like for urban youth. I will argue tha…
Stuck: Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood
Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania
Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are young refugee men who migrate to urban areas. This volume, the first full-length study of urban refugees in hiding, tells the story of Burundi refugee youth who escaped from remote camps in central Tanzania to work in one of Africa's fastest-growing cities, Dar es Salaam. This steamy, rundo…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (5 works) · Refugee (5 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Tanzania (4 works) · Africa (3 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works)