The brutal, eleven-year long civil war in Sierra Leone has been understood by many
scholarly observers as 'a crisis of youth'. The national elections of 2007 were notable for an …

The majority of undocumented Congolese refugee children living in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania, experience extreme poverty and social exclusion, harassment and discrimination …

With the growing youth bulge in sub-Saharan Africa, existing social contracts between
generations, age-specific role models and economic domains are shifting. With regard to the …

This article focuses on rural girls' aspirations of becoming migrants in a setting where girls
are subjected to social constraints curtailing their movements in the midst of an otherwise …

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In February 2006 a group of over 50 former fighters were released from Freetown's central
prison after over six years' incarceration. This article traces the ways they handled the move …

282 Erdmute Alber und Tabea Häberlein in verschiedenen Feldern ethnologischer
Forschung, etwa der Religionsethnologie, der Politikethnologie, der Rechtsethnologie, der …

This paper considers citizenship in its non-legal sense, using Angola as a case study and
focusing primarily on returning refugee youth and the manner in which reintegration …

Young people in the neighbourhood of Colobane in Dakar are significant political actors
whose practices and discourses are co‐producing processes of change in a context of …

Drawing on research with a small group of young women and men in Maratane Refugee
Camp, Mozambique, this paper argues that youth envisage themselves as incapsulated in …