PRESS RELEASE

The Forced Migration Studies Programme (FMSP) at the University of Witwatersrand held a closed door roundtable discussion with the Department of Home Affairs officials on Friday 13 March 2009.
• Forced Migration Studies Programme, Wits University ‘Stakeholders Chart Way Forward On Refugee Reception’ Download.
• National Survey of the Refugee Reception and Status Determination System in South Africa Download.
• Towards Tolerance, Law, and Dignity:Addressing Violence against Foreign Nationals in South Africa Download.

FMSP has released a new report evaluating the humanitarian response which followed the xenophobic violence in May 2008. This report can be downloaded in three versions:

• Humanitarian Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in South Africa: Lessons Learned Following Attacks on Foreign Nationals in May 2008 (full report: 187 pages) Download.
• Humanitarian Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in South Africa: Lessons Learned Following Attacks on Foreign Nationals in May 2008 (executive summary and recommendations: 37 pages) Download.
• Xenophobic Violence in South Africa in May 2008: the humanitarian response in Gauteng and the Western Cape – a narrative account (37 pages)Download

MIGRANT RIGHTS MONITORING PROJECT

• FMSP, Barriers to Asylum: The Marabastad Refugee Reception Office
• FMSP, Foreign Migrants And The South African Health Care System: Ensuring The Right To Health Is Upheld For All
• FMSP, Challenges To The Successful Implementation Of Policy To Protect The Right Of Access To Health For All In South Africa
• FMSP, Responding To Zimbabwean Migration In South Africa - Evaluating Options
• FMSP & Musina Legal Advice Office, Special Report: Fact Or Fiction? Examining Zimbabwean Cross-Border Migration into South Africa
  
• FMSP, Violence Against Foreigners In Northwest Province

WORKING PAPERS AND RESEARCH

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FMSP Working Paper Series

• Working Paper #43
  L. A. Corbinos & N.S. Guevara, Migration and Health In Chile: Rights and Social Integration and Cultural Diversity
• Working Paper #42
  L. B. Landau & V. Gindrey, Migration and Population Trends
  Gauteng Province 1996-2055
• Working Paper #41
  T. Polzer, Negotiating Rights: The Politics of Local Integration
• Working Paper #40
  D. Vigneswaran, A Foot In The Door: Access To Asylum In South Africa
• Working Paper #39
  L.B. Landau, The Meaning Of Living In South Africa:
  Violence, Condemnation And Community After 5-11
• Working Paper #38
  A. Bloch, Gaps in Protection:Undocumented Zimbabwean Migrants In South Africa
• Working Paper #37
  L.B. Landau and D. Vigneswaran, Which Migration, What Development? Critical Perspectives On European-African Relations
• Working Paper #36
  T.R. Hepner, Transnational Political And Legal Dimensions Of Emergent Eritrean Human Rights Movements
• Working Paper #35
  T. Mechlinski, Factors Affecting Migrant Remittances And Return Migration: A Case Study Of South Africa (Migrant Remittances and Return: South Africa)

More Working papers

Migration Field Notes

• Methods and Field Notes #8
  J. Vearey, The Responsibility to Protect and the Need to Affect Change: Undocumented Migrants, Research Ethics and Methodology
• Methods and Field Notes #7
  B. Suter, When Resources are Scarce”: Methodological Reflections surrounding Research on African Transit Migrants in Turkey
• Methods and Field Notes #6
  T. Polzer, Disseminating Research Findings In Migration Studies: Methodological Considerations
• Methods and Field Notes #5
  T. Mechlinkski, “This Is Between Us Blacks”: Analytic Reflections On Ethnographic Fieldwork And Analysis
• Methods and Field Notes #4
  D. Vigneswaran, Lost In Space: Residential Sampling And Johannesburg’s Forced Migrants
• Methods and Field Notes #3
  N. Pophiwa, Exploring Borderlands And Clandestine Activities: Some Methodological And Fieldwork Experiences

CoRMSA REPORT

This CoRMSA report, while dedicated to promoting the rights of foreigners in South Africa, is not solely for the rights of refugees, asylum seekers and other immigrants. It is about building a South Africa where everyone’s rights are protected and their welfare secured. Follow link
• Protecting Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigrants in South Africa

CAGE REPORT

These reports and policy briefs summarise the South African findings of an eighteen-month collaborative research project of the FMSP of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), Moi University, Kenya.
• View selected CAGE reports