Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Migration

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Daniel Makina is a Professor of Economic Sciences at the University of South Africa. He holds a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg. His research interests include migration economics financial inclusion in emerging markets and FinTech. He has published in academic journals such as International Migration Migration Letters Applied Economics Applied Financial Economics the Journal of Developing Societies African Finance Journal African Development Review among others. His recent edited volume is Extending Financial Inclusion in Africa published in 2019.Dominic Pasura is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow UK. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick UK. His research interests include migration transnationalism and diaspora in particular the new African diasporas. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited books. He is the author of African Transnational Diasporas: Fractured Communities and Plural Identities of Zimbabweans in Britain (2014) and co-editor of Migration Transnationalism and Catholicism: Global Perspectives (2016). He is the Principal Investigator on the UK Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) three-year funded grant project The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Transnational Young People of African Migrant Background which commenced in May 2023.