David Ambrosetti and Thomas Osmond

Different Faces of Migration in and from Ethiopia

Foreword

The conference Migration and Exile in the Horn of Africa -State of Knowledge and Current Debates was held in Coral hotel, Khartoum, on the 1 7 th and 1 8 th

of November 2 0 1 5 . At this occasion, researchers and experts working on issues related to migrations in the Horn of Africa presented more than thirty scienti c contributions to an audience made of Sudanese, Ethiopian, and Dji -boutian researchers, diplomats, representatives of international organisations, stakeholders from the civil society, and students. The Centre for social, legal and economic studies and documentation in Khartoum (CEDEJ -Khartoum), the CFEE in Addis Ababa, and the University of Khartoum organised this meeting with the nancial support of several institutional partners from France (the French Institutes in Paris and in Djibouti, the Embassies of France in Sudan and in Ethiopia, and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)) and abroad (the Francophone University Association, the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria, the American University in Cairo, the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Oxford University, the Embassy of Canada in Sudan, Mokoro Ltd, as well as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees [ UNHCR] and the International Organization for Migration [ IOM]). The aim of this conference was to break with the nowadays common approach to migrations, which is related to the recent massive in ux of migrants fromSyria and Yemen, aswell as Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, into Europe. Several kinds of cross -bordermovements, such as series of itineraries, frequent return trips, and commuting have been attested for a long time in

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