Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration

Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration provides a forum for scholarly articles of the highest quality. The journal documents the relevance of African immigration to the world’s social, political and economic systems as well as its historical effects on culture; it responds to the debates on immigration and problematizes its assumed effects. It also generates debate among scholars and intellectuals of African immigration, demographers, and African immigrants themselves.

In publishing original essays, reprints of hard to find essays, critical commentaries, book reviews, and interviews of African immigrants, Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration creates a forum for scholars and analysts of African immigration as well as activists throughout the world to participate in debates, exchanges of ideas, and the creation and documentation of knowledge.

About Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration

Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of African migration and immigration to other parts of the world. Ìrìnkèrindò is Yoruba for incessant Wanderings or Travels. To our minds, the word, Ìrìnkèrindò captures the essence of past, contemporary, and future migrations and immigration of Africans around the continent, and from the continent to other lands.

Special Focus

Stateless: Left In Limbo On The Road To America

Over the past decade, African migrants have blazed a trail to the U.S. — and it runs through Central America and Mexico. But in 2019, under pressure from the U.S., Mexico’s government began freezing African migrants at its southern border with Guatemala. This left thousands of migrants in a state of uncertainty over residence and legal status and left to find a new way of life in tent cities and makeshift housing as they clung to hopes of making their way to the U.S.

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African Diaspora Families & Changing Gender Relations: A Focus on GBV & IPV

Paper presented at “Freedom from Gender-based Violence” Conference, by Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome at The Africana Studies Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Sponsored by The Ithaca College Department of Politics, in conjunction with the African Women’s Initiative of Ithaca, the Center for Transformative Justice, and the Africana Center of Cornell.
African Migration: Are Europe and America Hypocritical?

Interview of Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome by Dr. Bunmi Oyinsan of Sankofa Pan African Series on Historical and Contemporary manifestations of African migration to Europe and the United States of America, and critique of migration policy.
Women, Water, and Migration In Africa

Dr.Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome, a professor at the City University of New York’s Brooklyn College discusses the role of Women, Water, and Migration in Nigeria, at the 56th Parallel Session to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). March 2012.
Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Implications for West Africans on both sides of the Atlantic

Article in Focus: African Immigrant Innovation in 21st Century Giving (Download as PDF)

Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome, Ph.D. and Jackie Copeland-Carson, Ph.D

Call for Papers!

Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration is accepting paper submissions for our next issue "The Gendered Effects Of The COVID-19 Pandemic On Africa And Her Diaspora."

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