AMMODI Virtual Roundtable: Making African(ist) Migration Research Visible

Global academia is in the midst of renewed debates and interventions against the persistent inequalities in African and Africanist higher education following calls for decolonising academia. Migration patterns and policies, as well as research on them, are often deeply informed by post-/colonial relations, and migration research has been slow in exposing and addressing its post-/coloniality.
This roundtable therefore seeks to address the structural inequalities embedded in Africanist migration research through a set of dialogues between researchers, journal editors, and librarians who confront these issues in different ways. It aims to diagnose the persistent inequalities in our field, and offer inspiration for ways to work towards more equity and inclusivity.The roundtable will also briefly introduce the AMMODI database of over 200 Africa-based scholars working on migration, mobility and displacement and their work, which aims to be one step towards increasing the visibility of African migration research.
The event is moderated by Leander Kandilige and Faisal Garba.
Dialogue 1: Invisibility in global academia
Kudakwashe Vanyoro (University of Witwatersrand)
Ruth Nyabuto (Refugee Led Research Hub)
Dialogue 2: Ineequalities in the access to international publication
Sergio Carciotto (Editor of African Human Mobility Review)
Due to illness, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Editor of Migration & Society) could sadly not take part in the discussions.
Dialogue 3: Challenges and Potentials of digital infrastructures in academia
Kwesi Sewe (University of Ghana Library)
Jessica Adjeley Mensah (Paliament of Ghana Library)
Åsa Lund Moberg (Nordic Arica Insitute Library)
Overarching reflections
Heaven Crawley (Migration for Development and Equity)
Ibrahima Amadou Dia (African Centre for the Study and Research on Migration, African Union Comission)
This virtual Event took place 28.11.2023 and was organised by the AMMODI Roundtabel and the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 - Introduction AMMODI Roundtable: Making Africanist Research visible
00:09:01 - Dialogue 1: Invisibility in global academia
00:32:48 - Dialogue 2: Inequalities in the access to international publication
00:50:45 - Dialogue 3: Challenges and Potentials of digital infrastructures in academia
01:05:36 - Overarching reflections
01:29:50 - Questions and Discussion