In this podcast - the first in a new series for Global Policy - Tom Kirk hosts Jutta Bakonyi and Peter Chonka, authors of Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, belonging and the reconstruction of Somali cities (Bristol University Press, 2023), and Andrew Maina, a humanitarian practitioner from the Regional Durable Solutions Secretariat (ReDSS).
Their conversation covers issues of conflict and climate-crisis linked displacement in the Horn of Africa and the role of rural-urban migration in shaping rapidly growing Somali cities. They focus on how research findings about the complex political economy of camp urbanisation can be translated into practical policy approaches for organisations working on providing durable solutions for vulnerable, displaced populations. For instance, they discuss the ways in which understanding of the incentive structures of landowners, camp managers and local communities can enable humanitarian actors to potentially support marginalised in-migrants through the provision of particular resources and innovative interventions such as shared tenancy schemes.
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