Descripción
This session, co-organised with African Trade, Innovation and Investment House, speaks directly to two of the Forum's core priorities: social justice/sovereignty of peoples, and the guiding theme's concern with migration and economic crises. It reframes migrants, refugees, and diaspora populations not only as a protection and rights constituency but also as economic actors with capital, skills, and networks that African economies currently underuse. Across the continent, migration is treated almost entirely as a humanitarian and rights issue while the economic agency of migrants, refugees, and diaspora communities remains underdeveloped and under-supported. Africa Unite has spent over two decades working directly with refugees and migrants in Cape Town on protection, legal rights, and social cohesion. This provides an opportunity for diaspora Africans and returnees seeking to invest, relocate, or do business across borders through soft-landing, real estate, and agri-investment services.This session brings these two vantage points together to ask a practical question: What does it take to move a person from displacement, or from the diaspora, into being a recognized economic participant in an African economy as a worker, investor, entrepreneur, or landholder?