Urban Refugees

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Urban Refugees

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Summarize the Urban Refugees article

Fabos_Urban_Refugees_2007 (1)

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In the article, “Urban Refugees: Introduction”, Fábos and Kibreab (2006) made an extensive analysis of social, economic, political, and legal barriers faced by refugees in urban settings, especially regarding the way in which the obstruction shapes their livelihoods, opportunities, strategies, and vulnerabilities across African cities. Fábos and Kibreab made implications that state policies on segregation, criminalization, and securitization of urban refugees are government and public-centered activities involved in creating and perpetuating differences between outsiders, meaning the refugees, and the insiders, the established members of the asylum-offering sites. The drastic contrast between contrast regional and global developments to prompt increased migration, mostly from southern to northern areas, as well as migration control policies in Africa raised the need to focus on the continent.