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Abstract

This report details the country-level policy changes that have affected Eritrean mobility dynamics over the past decade, including recently with the outbreak of conflict in Sudan in April 2023. Through interviews with displaced Eritreans and members of their transnational social networks, as well as key informants (KIs), this research seeks to understand how the dynamics of Eritrean mobility have adjusted to externalisation policies, shrinking spaces of refuge, and compounding regional crises.

Given the well-documented, transnational character of Eritrean resilience, vulnerability, and mobility, shrinking spaces of refuge for Eritreans necessitate a renewed and reconsidered focus on supporting this population, which must be informed by research into their shifting, and once again unsettled, journeys.