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Fred Ikanda is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Maseno University, Maseno, Kisumu, Kenya. He is a holder of a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and has published widely on refugee and forced migration issues. His doctoral research focused on how kinship sustains the continued existence of the Dadaab camps in northeastern Kenya.
Dr. Fred Nyongesa Ikanda
Contact
Hosting institute
- German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Current affiliation
- Maseno University, Maseno, Kisumu, Kenya
Memberships
Key expertise
- Refugee and forced migration
- Kinship
- Anthropology of Islam
- Gender studies
- Social cohesion in protracted refugee situations
Regional expertise
- ForForced migration in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region
Profile according to FFVT taxonomy
Scientific topics
- Borders
- Economy Of Forced Migration
- Gender
- Humanitarianism
- Infrastructure Of Flight / Forced Migration
- Integration And Social Participation
- Migration Routes, Refugees’ Journeys
- Refugee Camp
- Transnational Networks
Disciplines
- Anthropology
- Sociology
Professional Career
Relevant publications
- The role of Somali Kinship in Sustaining Bureaucratic Governance around Dagahaley Camp in Kenya.2020.Ethnos, Journal of Anthropology.
- Animating “refugeeness” through vulnerabilities: Worthiness of long-term exile in resettlement claims among Somali refugees in Kenya.2018.Africa 88(3): 579-596.
- Somali refugees in Kenya and social resilience: Resettlement imaginings and the longing for Minnesota.2018.African Affairs, 117(469): 569-591.
- Deteriorating Conditions of Hosting Refugees: A Case Study of the Dadaab Complex in Kenya.2008.African Study Monographs, 29(1): 29-49.
- Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at a Refugee Camp in Kenya, in Wale Adebanwi (ed). Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters.2022.Athens: Ohio University Press.