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Adejumoke Alice Afolayan, B.Sc. (Geography); Ph.D. (Ibadan); Professor of Geography; Fellow and Programme Leader at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CEPACS), University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Fellow at the Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS), Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan; Coordinator of the Seminar in Legal Criminology and Security Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan.

 


 


Areas of specialization and Research Iinterest are Internal and International Immigrations, Refugeee Studies and Repatriation and Trafficking of Children and Women in Africa.

 


Among her publications are:

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    • Immigration and Expulsion of ECOWAS Aliens in Nigeria (IMR, 1988);

    • Emigration Dynamics in Nigeria; (UNFPA/IOM, ed. Appleyard, R., 1988);

    • Official and Illegal Migrations in Africa (UAPS, 1999);

    • Trans-border Mobility and Trading; (IFRA, 2000);

    • Dynamics of Refugee Flows and Repatriation in Africa (J. of Peace and Conflict Studies, 2003);

    • Circulatory Migration in West Africa (Laboratoire SEDET, University of Paris, 2004);

    • Migration and Development in Nigeria (UAPS; 2003) and

    • Experiences of Immigrants in Nigeria (In Press, Haworth Press, 2005).

 


Recent Publications

 


Research & Publications
Afolayan, A.A. (1998). Emigrtion dynamics in Nigeria: Landlessness, poverty ethnicity and different responses. In: Appleyard, R (ed.) Emigration dynamics in developing countries Vol. 1: Sub-Saharan Africa. Chapter 2, pp.35-68. United nations population Fund (UNFPA) and International Organisation for Migration. USA Ashgate publishing Company, Vermont.

 


Afolayan, A.A. (1998). Population & migration studies. In: Areola, O. and S.I. Okafor,(eds.) 50 years of Geography in Nigeria; the Ibadan story, Essays in Commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of the University of Ibadan 1948-98 Chapter 10 pp 202-219. Ibadan. Ibadan University Press.

 


Afolayan, A.A. and I.O. Adelekan (1998). The role of climate variations on migration and human health in Africa. The Environmental 18. pp. 213-218.
Afolayan, A.A. (1999). Official and Illegal Migrations in Africa. In: Lututala, P. Proceedings of the Conference on ‘The African population in the 21st century’ pp. 519-542. Dakar. Union for African Population Studies.

 


Afolayan, A.A. (2000). Trans-border mobility and trading: A case study of southwestern borded of Nigeria. IFRA Occasional Paper, No 13, pp. 33 – 91. Ibadan. African Book Builders Ltd.

 


Afolayab, A.A. (2002). Ibadan Atlas of Nigeria, Les Editions Jeune-Afrique-Jaguar, Paris – France Pp. 134 – 135.

 


Afolayan, A.A. (2003). Trans-borded migrants and assimilation process in the south-western borderland of Nigeria. In: Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch; Odile Goerg; Issiaka Mande, and Faranirina Rajaonah (eds.) Etre etranger et migrant en Afrique au Xxe Siecle; Enjeux Identitaries Et Modes D’Insertion. Paris L’Harmattan, Pg. 261-277.

 


Afolayan, A.A. (2003). Dynamics of refugee flows and repatriation in Africa. African Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies. Vol. 1, No. 1, June, Pp. 66-90

 


Afolayan A.A. (2003). Migration and development in Nigeria. Union for African Population Studies. 4th African Population Conference. “Population and Poverty in Africa: Facing up the 21st Century Challenges”. 8th – 12th December. Tunis 16 pages.

 


Afolayan, A.A. (2004). Circulatory Migration in West Africa: A case study of Ejigbo in southwestern Nigeria. To be published by Laboratoire SEDET CNRS/University of Paris 7 Denis Diderot-Cnrs. International Migration Unit 40 pages.

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