Clayton Boeyink

Dr Clayton Boeyink (he/him) is a Research Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, situated within the School of Social and Political Science. His current research, funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund, aims to improve healthcare at the intersection of gender and protracted displacement amongst Somali and Congolese refugees and IDPs in Somalia, Eastern DRC, Nairobi, and Johannesburg. 

Key research interests include:

• Refugees and displacement
• Refugee camps
• Livelihoods
• Cash transfers
• Healthcare
• Displaced Somalis
• Displaced Congolese
• Displaced Burundians
• Self-reliance
• Food aid
• Brokerage
• Urban refugees
• Invisibility
• Tanzania
• Kenya

Recent and notable publications/ projects include:

• Boeyink, C. et al. (2022) ‘Pathways to care: IDPs seeking health support and justice for sexual and gender-based violence through social connections in Garowe and Kismayo, Somalia and South Kivu, DRC’ Journal of Migration and Health (6):1-11.
• Boeyink, C. & Falisse, J.B. (2022) ‘Class in Camps or the Camped Class? The Making and Reshaping of Socio-Economic Inequalities in the Refugee Camps of North-Western Tanzania’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies:1-20.
• Boeyink, C. (2022) ‘Deconstructing the Migrant/Refugee/Host Ternary in Kigoma, Tanzania: Towards a Borderland Politics of Solidarity and Reparation’ Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 20(2): 240-252.
• Boeyink, C. (2021) ‘On Broker Exploitation and Violence: From Madalali to Cartel Bosses in the Food Aid Resale Economy of Tanzanian Refugee Camps’ Development and Change, 53(5): 962-986.
• Boeyink, C. (2020) ‘Sufficiently Visible/Invisibly Self-Sufficient: Recognition in Displacement Agriculture in Western Tanzania’ in Invisibility in African Displacements: From Structural Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance (eds. J. Bjarnesen & S. Turner). London: Zed Books.
• Boeyink, C. (forthcoming) ‘On broker exploitation and violence: From madalali to cartel bosses in the food aid resale economy of Tanzanian refugee camps’ Development and Change.