South Sudan's Refugee Crisis: Scale, Drivers, and Regional Implications: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Key Points

• The aim is to analyze the refugee crisis in South Sudan, exploring its causes and regional effects, particularly through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Conducted a comparative analysis within the field of political science.
• Organized existing scholarship to identify key issues.
• Focused on institutional, policy, and theoretical dynamics relevant to Africa.
• Identified critical drivers behind the refugee crisis in South Sudan.
• Highlighted significant regional implications arising from the crisis.
• Provided lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic applicable to the refugee situation.

Abstract