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SUMMARY:ACMS SEMINAR: The Adversity Grid - Beyond Epistemological Traps
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Tanatswa Chineka\nTitle: The Adversity Grid: Beyond Epistemological Traps in the Gendered Liminality of Unaccompanied Migrant Boys\nRespondent: Prof. Edmos Mtetwa (Department of Social Work\, University of Zimbabwe) \nDate: Wednesday\, 13 May 2026\nTime: 12:30 – 13:30\nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room (2163)\, Solomon Mahlangu House (2nd floor)\, East Campus\, Wits University (directions)\nZoom link: https://tinyurl.com/3dwkccpp\, Meeting ID: 957 8662 4514\, Passcode: 012731\nRSVP: Email ntokozo.yingwana@wits.ac.za \nAbstract:\nUnaccompanied migrant adolescent boys navigate health and protection systems from structurally precarious positions shaped by displacement\, poverty\, gendered expectations\, and uneven institutional recognition. This paper argues that reductive framings of boys as vulnerable victims\, resilient survivors\, or problematic young men flatten the complexity of their lives and risk producing responses that are misaligned with their needs. Drawing on qualitative research in Zimbabwe\, including interviews\, focus groups\, and field observations\, I bring Renos Papadopoulos’ (2021) Adversity Grid into dialogue with scholarship on masculinities\, constrained agency\, and institutional misrecognition. Findings show that boys occupy a condition of gendered liminality and are subject to a girl-centred triage\, achieving only partial recognition through the figure of the “good migrant boy.” I develop the concepts of interpretive displacement and differentiated recognition to show how boys are seen but misread. The Adversity Grid supports more accurate understanding\, enabling informed best-interests decision-making and more appropriately tailored health and protection responses. \nAbout the researcher/presenter:\nTanatswa Chineka is a joint doctoral researcher with the ACMS’s Migration and Displacement programme at Wits University and the University of Essex’s Public Health. He has a background in social work\, and has research interests in child migration\, health systems and policy\, social security and mental health. His joint PhD examines how access to health care by unaccompanied migrant boys is determined by their experiences of masculinities and exercise of agency\, as they move. The study interrogates the intersections between the notions of gender (experience of masculinities/femininity)\, age (being a minor/teenager)\, migrant identity (being unaccompanied) and migrant status (being irregular). He is interested in exploring how this intersection simultaneously frames/is framed by child agency\, and in turn determines health care access. He is a member of various public health and migration research caucuses\, including the IMISCOE PhD Academy\, GEMMS and CoRE in Migration and Health.
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/acms-seminar-the-adversity-grid-beyond-epistemological-traps/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:ACMS SEMINAR: Growing Up Across Borders
DESCRIPTION:Presenters: Prof. Jane Freedman and Dr Aron Hagos Tesfai\nTitle: Growing Up Across Borders\nDate: Wednesday\, 20 May 2026\nTime: 12:30 – 13:30\nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room (2163)\, Solomon Mahlangu House (2nd floor)\, East Campus\, Wits University (directions)\nZoom link: https://tinyurl.com/3dwkccpp\, Meeting ID: 957 8662 4514\, Passcode: 012731\nRSVP: Email ntokozo.yingwana@wits.ac.za \nAbstract:\nGrowing Up Across Borders (GRABS) is a project at the Université Paris 8 that explores how migration\, mobility\, and urban life shape the health\, wellbeing\, and everyday experiences of young people across Southern Africa. Bringing together research\, dialogue\, and community engagement\, the project focuses particularly on the ways mobile and migrant youth navigate access to healthcare\, social support\, education\, and opportunities within contexts of inequality and precarity. By centring young people’s lived experiences across borders\, the project aims to generate evidence that informs more inclusive policies\, responsive health systems\, and youth-centred approaches to social justice and development. \nAbout the presenters:\nProf. Jane Freedman is the leader of the European Research Council (ERC) funded Growing Up Across Borders (GRABS) project. She is a professor at the Université Paris 8 and a member of the Paris Centre for Social and Political Research (CRESPPA). Her research has focused for many years on issues of migration and borders\, with an intersectional and postcolonial approach. She is particularly interested in the ways that migration and border policies create gendered and racist forms of violence and vulnerability for people on the move\, and the ways in which people on the move resist this violence. \nDr Aron Hagos Tesfai is the South Africa partner in the GRABS project. He has a PhD in Psychology (Health Promotion) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal\, South Africa. His research focuses on the migration and the psychosocial well-being of refugees. His research interests cover the social psychology of migration and explore themes such as integration\, social trust\, belongingness\, im(mobility) and agency. He is a refugee activist and involved in refugee politics. He is currently involved in a research project on migration that looks at the intersectional vulnerabilities of young refugees and sexual and gender-based violence in the context of migration.
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/acms-seminar-growing-up-across-borders/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20260527T123000
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SUMMARY:ACMS SEMINAR: Home Beyond Borders
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dr Lydia Moyo\nTitle: Home Beyond Borders: Belonging and Identity among Zimbabwean Venda-Speaking Migrants in South Africa\nDiscussant: Dr Paddington Mutekwe\nDate: Wednesday\, 27 May 2026\nTime: 12:30 – 13:30 (GMT+2)\nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room (2163)\, Solomon Mahlangu House (2nd floor)\, East Campus\, Wits University (directions)\nZoom link: https://tinyurl.com/3dwkccpp\, Meeting ID: 957 8662 4514\, Passcode: 012731\nRSVP: Email ntokozo.yingwana@wits.ac.za \nAbstract:\nThis article explores how Zimbabwean Venda-speaking migrants in Pretoria\, South Africa\, construct and negotiate meanings of home under conditions of prolonged and precarious migration. Drawing on qualitative data from 30 participants collected through semi-structured interviews and analysed thematically using Atlas.ti\, the study shows that home extends beyond a fixed geographical place to include emotional attachment\, memory\, cultural practice\, and social relationships. Participants use embodied practices such as food and music to sustain belonging across borders while maintaining connections to Zimbabwe. Although migration was often initially viewed as temporary\, prolonged residence fostered forms of rootedness in South Africa alongside enduring transnational ties. The article argues that homemaking among precarious migrants is both portable and spiritually anchored through everyday cultural reproduction\, ancestry\, land\, and burial sites\, contributing to debates on transnational belonging and identity. \nAbout the researcher/presenter:\nLydia Moyo is a postdoctoral research fellow at ACMS under the Disrupting the cycle of gendered violence & poor mental health among migrants in precarious situations (GEMMS) research group. She holds a doctorate from the University of Johannesburg\, and her thesis was titled “Geopolitics of Relocating: The Integration Experiences of Zimbabwean Venda-Speaking Migrants Residing in Pretoria\, South Africa.” She also holds a master’s degree as well as an honours degree from the University of Johannesburg. She did her undergraduate degree at the University of Zimbabwe. She has worked on a project looking at the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits as the research coordinator. She is a multilingual individual speaking almost 6 languages (Tshivenda\, English\, Pedi\, isiZulu\, Ndebele\, Shona). She has worked as an enumerator on various projects\, but her most significant role was conducting the largest survey at GEMMS as the qualitative lead\, as well as being appointed as a supervisor. Her research interests are in migration\, xenophobia\, language\, and integration. \n 
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/acms-seminar-home-beyond-borders/
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