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Based in Johannesburg, the Forced Migration Studies Programme (FMSP) is an internationally engaged; Africa-oriented; and Africa-based centre of excellence for research and teaching that helps shape global discourse on migration aid and social transformation.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
- Research and Dissemination Coordinator: Migrant and Refugee Rights Monitoring Project
- The Migrant Rights Monitoring Project at the Wits Forced Migration Studies Programme (FMSP) is hiring three experienced field workers for a short-term (four month) project exploring the root causes of xenophobic violence in May 2008. Refer to the application information for more information.
PRESS RELEASE
- The Forced Migration Studies Programme adds its voice against the current wave of xenophobic attacks in South Africa: Xenophobic Violence: Myths and Facts
ON XENOPHOBIA
- Loren B. Landau (2006)Discrimination and Development?: Migration, Urbanisation, and Sustainable Livelihood
L. B. Landau, K. Ramjathan-Keogh, and G. Singh (2005) Xenophobia in South Africa and Problems Related to It
MIGRANT RIGHTS MONITORING PROJECT
- FMSP, A Foot in the Door: Access to Asylum in South Africa
- FMSP, Asylum or Control: Access to South Africa’s Refugee Reception System, June 2008
- 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 #37
L.B. Landau and Darshan Vigneswaran, Which Migration, What Development? Critical Perspectives on European-African Relations
- Working Paper #36
Tricia Redeker Hepner, Transnational Political and Legal Dimensions of Emergent Eritrean Human Rights Movements
- Working Paper #35
Timothy Mechlinski, Factors Affecting Migrant Remittances and Return Migration: A Case Study of South Africa (Migrant Remittances and Return: South Africa)
Migration Field Notes
- 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
NEWS UPDATES
- Gretchen Wilson on the anti-immigrant violence in South Africa that has forced tens of thousands from their homes, follow link Violence Spurs Humanitarian Crisis
SEMINARS AND EVENTS
- 1 - 4 July 2008, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, In Search of Solutions: Methods, Movements & Undocumented Migrants in Africa
- 15 July 2008, As part of our Migration and Society seminar series, we are pleased to present Ufrieda Ho, a Freelance Journalist, will give a talk entitled The Invisible Yellow Dragon: The Experiences of Chinese Migrants in South Africa at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
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.
NEW BOOK
“The Humanitarian Hangover: Displacement, Aid, and Transformation in Western Tanzania.” Author: Loren Landau
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