Over the past decade, East Africa has become synonymous with state-sponsored homo/ transphobia, marked by draconian legislation and...
BOOK LAUNCH: East African Queer and Trans Displacements
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Events
ACMS SEMINAR: Fixed Systems, Mobile Lives
Presenter: Dr Lucy Pearl Khofi Discussant: Professor Busisiwe Nkala-Dlamini (Wits University, Department of Social Work) Title: Fixed...
ACMS SEMINAR: Exclusionary Cohesion? Rethinking the Nexus between Social Cohesion and Xenophobic Violence in South Africa
Presenter: Dr Jean Pierre Misago Date: Wednesday, 25 March 2026 Time: 12:30 – 13:45 Venue: ACMS Seminar Room (2163), Solomon Mahlangu...
EXHIBITION: The project that’s remapping migration in urban Africa
This post has been adapted from an article that was originally published by Wits University, under the same title, on 3 March 2026. Above...
Cities in Motion: Health, Violence & Crisis in SA’s Urban Worlds
As part of the Migration, Health & Wellbeing in Context webinar series, the ACMS in partnership with Nuture4Youth, Global Health...
PODCAST: Serge Alain Nitegeka’s ACMS walkabout of ‘Black Subjects’
On 2 September, about 20 African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) staff and students were taken on a guided tour by renowned...
VIDEOS: ‘The Borders of Transformation’ colloquium
Earlier this month (4 September 2025), the University of the Witwatersrand held a colloquium on 'The Borders of Transformation: The...
AUDIO SLIDE: ‘Demographic Change and Migration Policy’ seminar presentation
As part of the ACMS Public Seminar Series, Dr Andrew Selee recently (20 August 2025) presented on 'Demographic Change and Migration...
ACMS Seminar: Home and Away – An Analysis of Out of Country Voting in South African Elections
Presenter: Dr Catherine Musuva Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2025 Time: 12:30 – 13:45 Venue: ACMS Seminar Room: Room 2163, Solomon...
‘The Borders of Transformation: The Continent and the South African University’ colloquium
This colloquium asks how universities in South Africa, and the scholars and activists housed within them, can respond to stormy political...
