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• [Publication] Local connections for local solutions: Lessons learned in Tanzania (TRAFIG practice note 8).

  • Local connections for local solutions: Lessons learned in Tanzania (TRAFIG practice note 8).
  • Dar es Salaam is Tanzania’s largest city with a population of around 6.7 million people. Amongst them are approximately ten thousand vulnerable migrants who find themselves in refugee-like situations. Most of these vulnerable migrants are forced to live ‘underground’ because they do not have a government-issued permit to live outside of refugee camps. They nevertheless take their chances to build a productive life in the city, even if they must live covertly.In these situations, loc...

• [Page] Violent Futures?

  • University of BonnUniversity of CologneDr Kennedy Mkutu International Relations and Peace Studies United States International University Nairobi KenyaLucy W Massoi PhD Mzumbe University Dar es Salaam Tanzania

• [Page] Violent Futures?

  • University of BonnUniversity of CologneDr Kennedy Mkutu International Relations and Peace Studies United States International University Nairobi KenyaLucy W Massoi PhD Mzumbe University Dar es Salaam Tanzania

• [Publication] Departures from post-colonial authoritarianism. Analysis of system change with a focus on Tanzania

  • Departures from post-colonial authoritarianism. Analysis of system change with a focus on Tanzania

• [Publication] Figurations of Displacement in and beyond Tanzania: Reflections on protracted displacement and translocal connections of Cong...

  • Figurations of Displacement in and beyond Tanzania: Reflections on protracted displacement and translocal connections of Congolese and Burundian refugees in Dar es Salaam (TRAFIG working paper no. 8). Bonn: BICC.
  • This working paper investigates the livelihoods, trajectories, networks and self-generated opportunities of vulnerable migrants in refugee-like situations in Dar es Salaam. Its main purpose is to arrive at a deeper understanding of protracted displacement through a ‘figurational approach’, which stresses the networks and the interdependencies of urban refugees in Dar es Salaam, across Tanzania, and across national borders. Refugees’ social relations do not unfold in a vacuum but are...

• [Page] Violent Futures?

  • University of BonnUniversity of CologneDr Kennedy Mkutu International Relations and Peace Studies United States International University Nairobi KenyaLucy W Massoi PhD Mzumbe University Dar es Salaam Tanzania

• [Publication] Local water governance: Negotiating water access and resolving resource conflicts in Tanzanian irrigation schemes (MICROCON R...

  • Local water governance: Negotiating water access and resolving resource conflicts in Tanzanian irrigation schemes (MICROCON Research Working Paper 33).

• [Press] New TRAFIG publication \ Starting up and starting over: Refugee entrepreneurs in East Africa

  • A new policy brief, based on studies conducted by the EU Horizon 2020 research project TRAFIG in two refugee-hosting countries in Africa, Ethiopia and Tanzania, highlights the critical role that networks play in getting refugee businesses up and running.
  • Friday, 16 July 2021: “While the findings from Ethiopia and Tanzania highlight the important role of individual-level support, they also point to a potential role for donors, investors and NGOs in strengthening networks and providing start-up capital to get more refugee ventures off the ground, thereby lifting refugees out of protracted displacement”, the authors conclude. In particular, the central findings and policy implications of TRAFIG policy brief no. 4, “Starting up and starting over: How network...

• [Project] "Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation" Collaborative Research Center 228

  • Large-scale infrastructure projects such as the LAPSSET corridor in northern Kenya cut through the pastures of pastoral communities in Kenya and Tanzania. The Standard Gauge Railway, for example, traverses the pastoral lands in Narok in southern Kenya and Morogoro in central Tanzania. This raises the question of the impact of these projects on local conflict dynamics. In this research project, we employ the concept of frontiers as an analytical tool for comparative empi...

• [Publication] Classified integration – Urban displaced persons in Dar es Salaam

  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

  • The strict encampment policy enforced by Tanzanian authorities in the last years made it harder for displaced persons to settle outside camps. The article showcases possible impacts of policy changes on the legal, social and economic position of once relatively well-integrated urban refugees. Many refugees that had formerly managed to integrate successfully into the urban space of Dar es Salaam as workers, artists, entrepreneurs, or service providers were increasingly forced into il...