Leverhulme Early Career Reseacher Fellow @AstonUniversity | AFHEA | Migration & Conflict Scholar | Memory | Identity | Drones | Africa (Sahel).
London, England
Joined November 2015
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Thank you @PsychToday.
Even if PTSD treatment is successful, some veterans can still feel like their mind never left the battlefield. Here’s the concept that may explain why, and what it means for how we support them, according to @RealOlumba psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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Even if PTSD treatment is successful, some veterans can still feel like their mind never left the battlefield. Here’s the concept that may explain why, and what it means for how we support them, according to @RealOlumba psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
Can WE reach the location we aimed for without even arriving at our destination? And can we get 'stuck' while we are still moving? I addressed these and other questions in this paper.
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/07256868.202…
#immobility #migration
The "Strange New Wounds" in #US #Soldiers Who Never Saw Carnage:
- Trauma can arise from imagined destruction, not only witnessed violence.
- #Veterans need care for what they remember, imagine, and cannot leave behind.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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💻In the media!
✍️@AstonUniversity's Ezenwa E Olumba has written for @ConversationUK on Ukraine's use of robots and drones in the ongoing war with Russia
🤖He looks at the technology, changing uses, and the ethical and legal concerns
👇theconversation.com/ukraines…
Here is 'Why we long for what we once despised'.
Key takeaways:
-We can miss lives we once rejected as we let memory blur the hardship we once saw.
-Moving to a “better” life can still leave the mind anchored to where we once lived.
#cognitiveimmobility #PsychologyToday
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I'm pleased to share our latest article on "Regulating Autonomous #Weapon Systems: Searching for #African Solutions to Regional and #Global Problems", in Regulation & Governance.
Coauthored with @RealOlumba @ChrisIsike @spencer_onazi
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
'If you have moved from one country to another, you may have left something behind – be it a relationship, a home, a feeling of safety or a sense of belonging. Because of this, you will continually reconstruct mental simulations of scenes...'
doi.org/10.64628/AB.j3asrgf9…
She moved to a new country… but every night, she returns home in her dreams. Why? Watch the video to find out. youtu.be/0TqT7EH63Fo?si=xhOW… via @YouTube
It is out in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: ‘From students to refugees: students’ (im)mobility in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine’.
Wondering what happened to the Africans who fled #Ukraine️ ? Read.
#Migration #Immobility #racism tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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New to @APSA_Preprints -
Immobility Phases - cup.org/4kF2hxF
"This paper advances the concept of immobility phases to capture the transitory, often precarious conditions experienced by individuals facing constrained mobility."
- @RealOlumba
#preprint
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New article in Migration Studies: “Choosing to Stay: The Resilience–Accessibility Framework”.
It offers a tool to explore staying behaviour in conflict-affected settings, especially among indigenous populations.
#migration #immobility #adversity
Link in comments.
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📚 I am excited to share that my book, 𝘐𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 has been reviewed in the 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸!
👉 Read the full review here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
@UniWestScotland @CMDCI_UWS @routledgebooks
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New to @APSA_Preprints -
Who Belongs Where? The Politics of Internal Deportation, Nativism and Migration in Nigeria - cup.org/45ybLX5
- @RealOlumba
#preprint
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'Many #Africans are leaving their home countries, but at a cost. Families are scattered across other continents, and many may never be together again.'
#identity #Migration #japa