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Item Canada and African Refugees: It Is Complicated, but Opportunities Exist for a Partnership(International Journal of Canadian Studies, 2017) Coffie, A.Canada is a global leader in addressing refugee issues, particularly in the area of resettlement, but has a complicated relationship with African refugees. The complication is most profound in the case of those living in refugee camps in Africa. In addition, Canada’s commitment toward peacekeeping—which it deems a solution for conflicts that are the leading cause of population dis-placement in the context of Africa—is fraught with complexities. This article reviews the complications underlying Ottawa’s response to refugee issues from Africa, arguing that in the next 25 years, Ottawa can change its complicated relationship with Africa into a partnership aimed at providing a solution to the myriad refugee crises. Such a partnership will necessarily include contributing financial and technical support to refugee-hosting countries in Africa and returning to active participation in peacekeeping in AfricaItem Exploring Africa’s Agency in International Politics(Africa Spectrum, 2021) Coffie, A.; Tiky, L.A protracted conventional knowledge within mainstream International Relations (IR) has been that African agents (states, organizations, and diplomats) are consumers of international norms and practices designed in the affluent countries of the Global North. Papers in this special issue present a challenge to this view; they discuss the active role and the influence of African actors in international politics and renew a call for the development of IR theories, concepts, and methods that reflect Global Southern and African experiences, ideas, institutions, actors and processes.Item Forced migration and transformation of refugees(University of Ghana, 2015-04-17) Coffie, A.There has been much talk about the transformational experience of refugee hosting communities, but relatively little about the impact of these societies on the forced migrants. Using the case of Liberian refugees in Ghana, this paper examines the transformational experience of refugees during the forced migration experience. The paper specifically examines how the structures of forced migration interact with the refugee's agency to transform both the resources of the refugees and the structures of forced migration. The research argues that the resource transformational experience of refugees is a result of the complex interplay between the structures of forced migration and the refugee's agency. Drawing on social constructivism's mutual constitution of structure and agents, the study highlights the various structures that refugees encounter as having different influences on different agents (refugees). It also provides a context within which to understand and examine how refugees as agents operate within structures of constraint and opportunity, which more or less likely leads to resource gains and losses