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SUMMARY:Repoliticizing international migration narratives? Critical Reflections on the Global Forum on Migration and Development
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Repoliticizing international migration narratives? Critical reflections on the Global Forum on Migration and Development by Kudakwashe P Vanyoro (African Centre for Migration & Society\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nIn this presentation\, Kuda draws on Pécoud’s international migration narratives (IMN) as an analytical framework to examine the Global Forum on Migration and Development’s Civil Society Days (GFMD-CSD). He analyses the narratives both produced and challenged at the GFMD-CSD\, suggesting that while the GFMD-CSD poses a gentle challenge to existing IMN\, it falls short of meaningfully (re)politicizing predominant migration paradigms. This is partly due to how the forum is a fraught space that reflects and reproduces uneven power dynamics between the Global North and South\, concealing and nullifying contestations of power. Nonetheless\, the GFMD-CSD\, as a hybridized\, experimental and fluidly defined discourse-led ‘global’ space\, still functions as an important arena through which challenges to depoliticized state-led rhetoric might slowly trickle. Therefore\, Kuda concludes\, a closer interpretation of self-reflexive GFMD-CSD civil society strategies might challenge Pécoud’s conceptualization of what constitutes a ‘depoliticized’ approach to migration. \nBiography \nKuda is a Research Communications Officer and Doctoral Researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS)\, University of the Witwatersrand.  In 2013\, Kuda was awarded an International Human Rights Exchange Programme special scholarship from Bard College and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. There he acquired distinguished multidisciplinary human rights education and certification. During the course of the programme\, he served as a Communications and Advocacy Intern at the Albert Street School for Refugees in Johannesburg where he became exposed as well as interested in migration and poverty issues due to his daily interaction with Zimbabwean refugees. Kuda joined ACMS in February 2014 where he was appointed Research\, Communications and Outreach Intern. ACMS nominated him for the Migrating out of Poverty Research Internship Scheme from April to July 2014. His internship involved supporting all ACMS communications work\, preparing and packaging policy briefs\, research data capturing\, undertaking desktop research and blogging on contemporary issues related to migration and poverty in Southern Africa.  Kuda has participated and presented at various international conferences and three years iteration of the Global Forum on Migration and Development. He holds an MA in Migration & Displacement (Cum laude) from Wits University. His Doctoral thesis will explore how cross-border migrants experience quotidian waiting events at the border and what various banal modalities of waiting say about belonging\, subjectification\, and governmentality. \nDate: Tuesday 19 June 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/repoliticizing-international-migration-narratives-critical-reflections-on-the-global-forum-on-migration-and-development/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180605T123000
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SUMMARY:The Role of the Church and the Challenge of Local Integration
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The role of the church and the challenge of local integration by Father Rampe Hlobo (Jesuit Refugee Services). \nWhether forced or voluntarily\, human beings have been on the move and migration has been part of their activity. The exponentially increasing numbers of (forced) migrants and refugees in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries have\, however\, more than ever before\, arguably brought the phenomenon of migration and refugees to the attention of the international and faith-based communities again. Consequently\, in trying to mitigate the challenges of those who have been forced to leave their homes\, local integration has been identified as one the solutions to the many challenges posed by migrants and refugees in host communities. This presentation explores the role of the church\, particularly the Catholic Church and its different agents as faith-based organisations and the challenge of local integration. The presentation looks at some of the perceptions of local integration\, the doctrine of the Catholic Church on migration and refugees and the challenges of local integration. \nBiography \nFr. Rampe Hlobo SJ is a Jesuit priest (Society of Jesus) working at the St Mary’s Catholic Church in Nyanga\, Cape Town. He has worked with both Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and refugees in Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) projects in South Sudan and Northern Uganda (2000). In South Africa\, he was the Advocacy and Information Officer for JRS (2000 – 2003). During his theological studies in London\, he worked as a volunteer for JRS UK (2005 – 2007). He was the Country Director for JRS South Africa (2010 – 2014). Rampe is currently a member of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) Migration group and the Africa representative in the Global Ignatian Advocacy Network (GIAN) Migration group. He holds an MA in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies. \nDate: Tuesday 5 June 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/the-role-of-the-church-and-the-challenge-of-local-integration/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180522T123000
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SUMMARY:The Price of Hope: The Fortification of Immigrants in Johannesburg
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The price of hope: The fortification of immigrants in Johannesburg by Simbarashe Nyuke (Department of Anthropology\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nThis study explores the nuanced ways in which the immigrant in Johannesburg uses Pentecostalism as a medium to mediate the complex “sites of struggle” existing within the city of Johannesburg. By demonstrating the complex encounter of urbanism\, Pentecostalism and the immigrant\, this work also raptures the dominant discourses on religion and migration\, which one-sidedly present Pentecostalism as an all-empowering force to the immigrant. Relying heavily on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork on the experiences of Pentecostal immigrants in and of the city of Johannesburg\, Simbarashe argues that in as much as Pentecostalism is empowering to the immigrant\, Pentecostalism is in itself a “site of struggle”. He engages with Bourdieu’s concepts of field\, habitus and capital to understand the experiences of immigrants as they encounter the different social fields within the city. This study highlights that the city of Johannesburg presents for the immigrant a space with both physical and social obstacles\, which calls for the need of the realignment of the habitus. Pentecostalism then provides the complex ways through which the immigrants’ habitus is reconfigured to cope or negotiate the exigencies of life in Johannesburg. \nBiography \nSimbarashe Nyuke holds a Masters and Honours Degree in Social Anthropology from University of Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg. Currently he is doing his PhD in Anthropology with the Department of Anthropology at Witwatersrand University. His PhDthesis explores the experiences of immigrants in Johannesburg through the lens of Pentecostalism. Simbarashe is also a research intern for Society Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at Witwatersrand University\, working on a project on enchanted urbanisms. The project focuses on the role/significance of religion\, magic\, and ritualism in mediating violence (or fear thereof) in Johannesburg\, South Africa. He is also interested in childhood studies. He looked at unaccompanied immigrant children for his Master’s thesis\, social integration of immigrant children for his Honours thesis and experiences of orphans in orphanage homes for his undergraduate research.  Some of his research interests are in childhood disability studies\, religion and violence\, medical anthropology and urban studies. \nDate: Tuesday 22 May 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/the-price-of-hope-the-fortification-of-immigrants-in-johannesburg/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180515T123000
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SUMMARY:The Effects of Governing Unauthorized Migration on Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The effects of governing unauthorized migration on citizenship by Stefan Salomon (Institute of International Law\, University of Graz). \nTraditional international law might be characterized by maintaining a twofold strict division: a division between aliens and citizens on the one hand\, and a division between citizenship and nationality on the other. This division was doctrinal and conceptual. It materialized in boundaries of separate legal frameworks of migration and citizenship\, assuming that change occurs within each framework and that they do not overlap. Citizenship and migration\, however\, are not two separate legal frameworks but are historically and conceptually linked. Historically\, the transformation of the normative boundaries of citizenship came about by non-citizens claiming rights in the sphere of citizenship. Migration\, however\, is already defined by techniques of governance. Governance of unauthorized migration conceptually links citizens and non-citizens: control of the latter occurs in the name of the former. As governance of migration is spatially ‘outsourced’ to the territories of other states and ‘insourced’ into the midst of the polity\, citizenship itself turns into an object of governance. \nBiography \nStefan Salomon is lecturer at the Institute of International Law at the University of Graz (Austria)\, where he is the founder and head of the Refugee Law Clinic. Previously\, he worked at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a European Union agency. His research focuses primarily on international and European refugee and migration law\, human rights law\, and legal theory. Stefan currently works on a research project on how transnational governance of irregular migration transforms citizenship. In a second research project\, he looks at the production of territory in international and EU law. Stefan regularly contributes to various newspapers as freelance journalist. Stefan’s research is funded by a research grant of the Austrian Sciences Fund. \nDate: Tuesday 15 May 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/the-effects-of-governing-unauthorized-migration-on-citizenship/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Migration across borders: from global to local experiences and perspectives
DESCRIPTION:The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) in collaboration with the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) will host a workshop on Wednesday\, 9 May 2018 at SAIIA’s head office\, during which panellists will explore how international developments related to migration are affecting the African continent and the Southern African region. Inputs will focus on the United Nations-led process of the Global Compact for Safe\, Orderly and Regular Migration and its attempts to create an international framework for improved and enhanced migration management. Discussions will centre on both the feasibility of such an initiative and the African response to these issues. \nThe second half of the workshop will explore regional and domestic perspectives on migration. Panelists will discuss the similarities and differences between Africa’s regional economic blocs towards migration management\, specifically the approaches of the Southern African Development Community and the East African Community. Thereafter\, presenters will explore specific in-country case studies of migration management at a domestic level\, while also engaging with the intersectionality between migration management and health policies. \nThis workshop aims to bring together academics\, policymakers\, and stakeholders to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing migration management at a domestic and international level. It will include presentations from Asmita Parshotam\, representing SAIIA\, and Professor Jo Vearey and DrJean-Pierre Misago\, representing the ACMS\, together with other African experts. \n\nDate:   Wednesday\, 9 May 2018\nTime:   08h30 for 09h00 – 1:00pm\nVenue: SAIIA\, Jan Smuts House\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg\n\nRSVP: To register please click HERE\n  \nEnquiries: Hanneke van der Westhuizen at hanneke.vanderwesthuizen@wits.ac.za
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/migration-across-borders-from-global-to-local-experiences-and-perspectives/
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SUMMARY:Pentecosmopolis: Lagos and its Pentecostalisms
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Pentecosmopolis: Lagos and its Pentecostalisms by Dr. Obvious Katsaura (Senior Lecturer\, Department of Sociology\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nBased on an ethnography of Lagos – one of the most Pentecostal cities in the world – this presentation develops the conceptual metaphors of ‘Pentecosmopolis’ and ‘pentecosmopolitanism’ to capture the role of Pentecostalisms in the crafting of urban diversities and vibrancies. The presentation disbands the ideas of Pentecosmopolis and pentecosmopolitanism into three derivative and interconnected sub-concepts of ‘pentecosmopolitan spatialities’\, ‘pentecosmopolitan lifeworlds’ and ‘pentecosmopolitan practices’. The sub-concept of pentecosmopolitan spatialities analyses the role of Pentecostalisms in the diversification and complexification of the spatial character\nand life of the city. That of pentecosmopolitan lifeworlds explicates the place of Pentecostalisms in the making of urban imaginations relating to domains and ecologies of spirits\, beliefs and symbolisms. The translation of pentecosmopolitan lifeworlds into economic\, social and political practices is analysed through the sub-concept of pentecosmopolitan practices. This study\, thus\, contributes to the projects of ‘religionising urban theory’ and ‘urbanising theories of religion’. \nBiography \nDr. Obvious Katsaura is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. He previously worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe from 2008 to 2010. His current research interests lie more broadly in Urban and Regional Sociology with a specific focus on Religion and African Urbanisms\, Violence and Urban Safety\, Urban Politics and Governance\, Minority Groups and City Life. He also has research interests in Political Sociology and Conflict Minerals in Africa. From 2010 – 2012\, he worked within an international research group focusing on “Urban Violence in sub-Saharan Africa: Its Impacts\, Coping Strategies and Peace Building”\, which led to his doctoral degree. He is currently working on a 3- year research project entitled “Violence and Enchanted Urbanisms: Magico-Religion\, Ritualism and Mediation of Violence in Johannesburg” with financial support from the Volkswagen Foundation. \nDate: Tuesday 8 May 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/pentecosmopolis-lagos-and-its-pentecostalisms/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Why Europe should NOT serve as best practice: A critical view on how Europe tries to approach the continuous movement of refugees to Europe
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Why Europe should NOT serve as best practice: A critical view on how Europe tries to approach the continuous movement of refugees to Europe by Ulrich Stege (International University College of Turin). \nAs many other regions in the world\, also Europe has faced a significant growth of asylum seekers and refugees in the recent years. Often this phenomenon is referred to as the “European Refugee Crisis”. Although the growth in numbers of asylum seekers and refugees is a fact\, this situation should however be better named as the “Crisis of the European Asylum System”. We can indeed observe\, that the current practice in relation to asylum is characterised by a large and growing gap between the humanitarian or human rights rhetoric of the European states and their actual behaviour. \nWhile there are certainly a number of elements of the Common European Asylum System\, which could be considered as best or at least interesting practices\, this presentation however will focus on the demonstration of why the current asylum practice in Europe is failing to achieve its aims and therefore should not be considered a positive example for other regions of the world (including South Africa). In this regard\, the following three major problems will be highlighted and possible alterative solution will be discussed: \n\n20 years after its signature\, the so-called Dublin system – that establishes a preliminary verification procedure related to the determination of the single country in Europe which is responsible to examine the asylum application on its merits – limit considerably the access to asylum and achieves very little at very high costs both for the protection of asylum seekers and for the functioning of the European Asylum System. In addition\, the current approaches to externalise the asylum procedure outside Europe\, raises a number of questions related to the effective access to asylum in Europe.\nIdentification of asylum seekers: As a response to the migratory flows that Europe is witnessing\, the European Agenda on Migration introduced the “hotspot approach” as the model of operational support to Member States faced with disproportionate migratory pressure. It has been implemented in Greece and Italy as a first level of “filtering” with the aims to channel the arrivals of mixed migration flows and to apply the pre-identification\, registration\, photo and fingerprinting operations. In both countries\, the hotspot practice has been widely criticized by many NGOs and Civil Society organisations. Concerns have been expressed about the hotspot’s conditions\, the factual use of detention\, the use of coercive measures for the aim of identification etc.\nReturn of irregular migrants: One of the political priorities for European Member States right now is to demonstrate of being capable to enforce negative asylum decisions and effectively return irregular migrants. But by doing this\, the European Union and its Member States are signing bi-lateral readmission agreements with countries like Afghanistan\, Turkey\, Sudan\, Libya etc.\, where a save return of the migrants is far from being ensured.\n\nBiography \nUlrich Stege is an International University College of Turin (IUC) (www.iuctorino.it) Faculty Member\, Member of the IUC Academic Coordination\, Director of the IUC Clinic Legal Education Program and currently Extraordinary Lecturer at the Law Clinic of the University of Pretoria (South Africa). He studied law in Germany\, France and Belgium. For several years\, he has been practicing as a qualified lawyer in Italy and Germany (admitted to the Bar in Germany and Italy)\, and has acted as speaker\, expert and trainer in numerous conferences\, international expert groups and Training of Trainers (mainly related to European Law\, Asylum and Immigration Law\, Clinical Legal Education\, etc.). In addition\, he served as evaluator of different EU funding projects (for example related to Child Friendly Justice). He is founding member and Executive Secretary of the ENCLE (European Network for Clinical Legal Education)\, Steering Committee member of the GAJE (Global Alliance for Justice Education) and member of ASGI (Associazione per gli Studi Giuridici sull’Immigrazione) and the Migration Law Network (Germany). \nDate: Tuesday 17 April 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/why-europe-should-not-serve-as-best-practice-a-critical-view-on-how-europe-tries-to-approach-the-continuous-movement-of-refugees-to-europe/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180403T123000
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SUMMARY:Gathering family histories from migrants and the women left behind: A methods perspective
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Gathering family histories from migrants and the women left behind: A methods perspective by Grascious Ncube (Development Studies\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nWithin the growing scholarship on transnational migration\, the methodological approaches and time perspective employed in these studies have received some criticism. One of the major critiques is that research tends to focus more on the transmigrants (those who move) and neglects those who remain behind. In addition\, studies have failed to trace processes of intergenerational flows in migrant families over multiple generations\, thus failing to incorporate family migration trajectories from a historical perspective. Indeed\, relatively few migration studies are anchored on tracing the historical interactions and dynamics of migrant families and some criticisms have been levelled against the methodological approaches used by these studies. For example\, these have been criticised for proffering situational realities based on individuals’ narratives whose standpoints are fluid and shaped by the continual changes in their context. This issue questions the adequacy\, authenticity and epistemological validity of the reality presented in these family history accounts. This presentation addresses  some of these criticisms through the use of multi-sited ethnography to incorporate the realities of those who migrate as well as those who stay behind. The research gathered histories from left behind family members in Tsholotsho in the Matabeleland North Province of Zimbabwe – the majority of these are women – and migrant members from Tsholotsho residing in Johannesburg\, South Africa \, to assess the contemporary changes and historical continuities within families in the context of sustained cross-border migration. Grascious reflects on the methodological implications derived from gathering these family histories from both sides of the transnational continuum. She discusses the different ways of conceptualising families\, from the perspectives of the women left behind and from the migrants’ perspectives. In doing so\, she argues that reconstructing family history in the context of transmigration requires not just an account of one history but of many histories emanating from intersections of different families all conglomerated to form one family through the eyes of the history teller.  Family history perspectives on migration challenge the patrilineal configuration of families. Methodological challenges associated with family histories in the context of migration need to address the spatial dimension of those who have moved and those left behind. \nBiography \nGracsious Maviza (nee Ncube) is a registered PhD Fellow in the department of Development Studies\, Wits. Her research focus is on assessing the contemporary changes and historical continuities within families in the context of sustained cross-border migration in the Matabeleland North Province of Zimbabwe. She is also a Research Fellow with the Institute of Development Studies of The National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe. She has a number of publications in the fields of migration\, livelihoods\, gender\, food security and local economic development in peer reviewed journals. She holds an MA in Development Studies majoring in Local and Regional Development from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS) in The Hague\, The Netherlands and a BSc honours in Sociology from the University of Zimbabwe. \nDate: Tuesday 3 April 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/gathering-family-histories-from-migrants-and-the-women-left-behind-a-methods-perspective/
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SUMMARY:Immigration and the labor market outcomes of natives in developing countries: A case study of South Africa
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Immigration and the Labor Market Outcomes of Natives in Developing Countries: A Case Study of South Africa by Nzinga Broussard (Millennium Challenge Corporation). \nUsing South African census data from 2001\, 2007\, and 2011\, Nzinga examines the effect that immigration had on labor market outcomes of native-born black South Africans. Using instrumental variables to control for the potential endogenous location choices of immigrants to South Africa\, the results show that immigrant inflows decreased the employment-to- population ratios and total annual income of black native-born South Africans. Additionally\, results suggest a negative effect of immigrant inflows on the employment ratio and total annual income of black native-born South Africans employed in the formal sector. Results show that immigration caused an intersectoral employment shift. For black male South Africans\, the composition of the employed labor force shifted to the formal sector\, and for black female South Africans\, the composition of the employed labor force shifted to the informal sector. \nBiography  \nDr. Nzinga Broussard is an applied micro-economist with over nine years of experience in the areas of development\, labor\, and agricultural economics. She has several publications in peer-reviewed journals on rural poverty\, international migration\, labor market outcomes\, and food insecurity. Dr. Broussard has professional experience in academia\, the private sector\, and the public sector. She is currently an economist at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)\, an independent U.S. foreign aid agency\, where she conducts economic analysis to identify potential areas for development assistance to facilitate growth and investment in poor countries. \nDate: Friday 23 March 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/immigration-and-the-labor-market-outcomes-of-natives-in-developing-countries-a-case-study-of-south-africa/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180320T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180320T133000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142910Z
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SUMMARY:Do Migrants matter? A Comparative Analysis of the Causes of Death Among Sub-Saharan Immigrants and Local South Africans\, 2009-2015
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Do Migrants Matter? A Comparative Analysis of the Causes of Death Among Sub-Saharan Immigrants and Local South Africans\, 2009-2015 by Lorena Nunez Carrasco (Department of Sociology\, University of the Witwatersrand); Abha Jaiswal (Research and Information System for Developing Countries); Michel K. Muteba (School of Public Health\, University of the Witwatersrand) and Jairo Arrow (Statistics South Africa). \nMigrants form an integral part of South Africa. In line with South Africa’s status as a signatory of the Refugees Act\, migrants have been included in the population that will receive basic health care services under the National Health Insurance (NHI). Understanding the burden of disease of migrants will play a significant role in the sustainability of NHI. Against this backdrop\, this presentation analyses the causes of death registered by Statistics South Africa  (Stats SA) for the years 2009 to 2015 and compares African migrants from four countries with the largest population in the country (Lesotho\, Malawi\, Mozambique and Zimbabwe\,) and local South Africans. Initial findings show a much higher percentage of unnatural deaths among foreign nationals from these countries when compared with the local population. Using the CDC10 coding and in line with the Global Burden of Disease\, the researchers used the data provided by Stats SA and grouped in three categories namely\, deaths due to i) communicable diseases\, neonatal and nutritional diseases ii) non-communicable diseases\, and iii) external causes\, namely violence and trauma. \nSummary measures\, frequencies and proportions were used to describe and compare causes of death among South Africans and African immigrants aged between 5 and 65 years old. Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) were calculated to compare premature mortality among immigrants and South African citizens. \nStandardized annual average YPLL rate per 1000 inhabitants was estimated at 23.07 for South Africans and of 27.59 for African immigrants. A higher YPLL rate for African immigrants was found in the categories of death due to non-communicable disease and death due to violence and trauma.  These findings need to be seen in the light of social determinants of health\, the rights and the entitlements approach. Overall migrants heightened death rates are related to the impact of contextual factors such as living and working conditions and barriers to access health care that migrants face. More specifically\, migrants heightened death rates due to violence and trauma should be interpreted in light of the xenophobic sentiments observed in the country over the last decade. A perspective on these deaths argues for the need to attend to their everyday occurrence\, often not accounted for in reports of xenophobic violence in South Africa. These finding will have larger implications for health policy and planning in the country and NHI in particular. \nDate: Tuesday 20 March 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/do-migrants-matter-a-comparative-analysis-of-the-causes-of-death-among-sub-saharan-immigrants-and-local-south-africans-2009-2015/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180314
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SUMMARY:Youth on the move: Reframing and representing youth migration
DESCRIPTION:Today\, youth migration is becoming an increasingly important phenomenon in the field of transnational migration studies. Yet\, migration scholarship and immigration law continue to presume that migrants are first and foremost adult actors making relatively autonomous consensual decisions to become mobile. When youth migration is discussed\, it is often normatively assumed that parental neglect or a breakdown in parental care are the cause. Adults are frequently seen as the primarydecision-makers and providers for children and\, thus\, are often responsible—or culpable—for a young person’s migration. The corresponding position of the child as inferior or somehow exclusively dependent on parents stands in marked contrast to the integral roles children often assume in familial decision-making processes\, as well as to the decisions they make as social actors and migrants in their own right. \nThis interdisciplinary conference seeks to disrupt the adult bias in migration literature by uniting emerging and established scholars and practitioners to investigate both the conceptual and territorial migration of children and youth across diverse international contexts. Hosted by the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, and co-sponsored by the Migration and Health Project (maHp) and the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG)\, this conference promises to engage a wide field of debate and produce some new ways of moving forward with the research agenda on youth migration. \nWe cordially invite you to attend this conference on Friday\, 13 April 2018. Conference registration is free\, but advanced registration is required. More detailed information regarding location and time will be sent to those who register. \nPlease RSVP here by 30 March. 
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/youth-on-the-move-reframing-and-representing-youth-migration/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180306T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180306T133000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142909Z
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SUMMARY:The Regional Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The Regional Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa presented by Dr Romola Adeola (Postdoctoral Researcher\, African Centre for Migration & Society\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nInternal displacement has emerged as a pertinent challenge in Africa. Yearly\, millions of people are internally displaced on the continent due to conflict and other factors.  With the reality that more than half of the continent was internally displaced in the early 2000s\, African leaders developed the Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa in 2009. This presentation examines the content of this framework\, regional developments towards its realization and some key challenges that must be addressed in fostering compliance of states with the legal framework. \nBiography \nDr Romola Adeola is a lawyer with expertise in international law specifically in areas of migration\, refugee protection\, development and human rights law and policy. She has lectured and presented at various conferences on the protection of refugees\, internally displaced persons and migrants at various Universities. She has served extensively as a consultant for governments and international institutions on issues of migration. She has a Doctorate in Law and Masters (Cum Laude) from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She was previously a Steinberg Fellow in International Migration Law and Policy at McGill University\, Montreal\, Canada and teaches international migration law and policy. \nDate: Tuesday 6 March 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/the-regional-protection-of-internally-displaced-persons-in-africa/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180226T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180226T133000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142909Z
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SUMMARY:The Safe Country Concept in International Agreements: Past\, Present and Future of State Practice
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The Safe Country Concept in International Agreements: Past\, Present and Future of State Practice presented by María-Teresa Gil-Bazo (Senior Lecturer in Law and Convenor of Newcastle University Research Group on International Studies in Forced Migration). \nOne of the expressions of international cooperation among States in the field of refugee protection is the adoption of international agreements that implement the “safe country” concept. This presentation examines the legal background to these concepts and State practice by considering three select case studies: South Africa\, Spain and the US. The presentation analyses the legal implications and significance of issues arising and provides a critique of the system and its premises. In particular\, the presentation considers whether a multilateral arrangement – such as the Dublin III Regulation or the Canada-US Agreement – has the potential to become a model for the development of an inter-State agreement whereby one of the State Parties effectively delivers all relevant international obligations (including the right to asylum) on behalf of all States bound by such system. The dual nature of the system is analysed\, as an operational instrument creating obligations between States while at the same time allowing for the delivery of States’ international obligations towards refugees. \nBiography \nDr María-Teresa Gil-Bazo is Senior Lecturer in Law at Newcastle Law School\, where she teaches Public International Law\, EU Law\, and The Movement of Persons in a Global World. She is also Member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College\, Senior Research Associate at the School of Advanced Studies (University of London)\, Fellow of the European Law Institute (Vienna)\, and External Expert of the EU Asylum Office (EASO). Dr Gil-Bazo qualified as a lawyer in 1993 and is Member of the Spanish Bar Council. \nDate: Monday 26 February 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/the-safe-country-concept-in-international-agreements-past-present-and-future-of-state-practice/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180209T093000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180209T110000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142908Z
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SUMMARY:Lagos Budding 50: Storytelling project on Migration and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Lagos Budding 50: Storytelling project on Migration and Resilience presented by Helen Gebregiorgis (Project Manager\, African Photo Stories). \nInspired by the May 2017 ‘Lagos @ 50 Celebrations’ highlighting prominent and influential Lagosians\, Lagos: Budding 50  is a visual storytelling project that honours and recognises the contributions of young\, everyday Lagosians in the development of the megacity. Different storytelling methods were utilized throughout the interviews with participants\, such as photography\, videography\, and audio recording. \nThrough exploration of identity\, migration and resilience\, Lagos: Budding 50 celebrates the stories of diverse\, ambitious and resilient young Lagosians as they strive to better themselves and their communities. The project is inspired by and dedicated to the people of Lagos. \nStriving to contribute towards a balanced perspective of Africa\, the Africa Photo Stories website is an initiative to build bridges of connection between the global community and the African community through storytelling methods\, one story at a time. \nBiography \nHelen Gebregiorgis is a visual storyteller\, passionate about Africa\, peace-building\, and human connection. It wasn’t until her first trip to the continent\, that she truly understood that Africa was more than just a handful of stories. It was greater than she could ever have imagined. During her first visit\, she gained deeper insight into the complexity and beauty of humanity and human connection. The places she travelled\, the stories she heard\, and the people she met\, affected her greatly\, that even her story began to change. \nDate: Friday 9 February 2018 \nTime: 9.30 -11.00 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/lagos-budding-50-storytelling-project-on-migration-and-resilience/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180205T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180205T133000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142908Z
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SUMMARY:The Meanings of Women’s Mobilities: Gender Ideals and Female Mobility in West Africa
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The Meanings of Women’s Mobilities: Gender Ideals and Female Mobility in West Africa presented by Dr Gunvor Jónsson (Departmental Lecturer\, Oxford Department of International Development\, University of Oxford). \nDespite increasing global attention to women’s involvement in migration in recent decades\, very little research has looked at Malian women’s different forms of mobility\, beyond the “rural exodus” from the countryside into towns. Gunvor’s fieldwork in Dakar\, the capital of Senegal\, focused on both mobile and settled female traders from Mali\, the neighbouring country. Many of these women were heads of their own households; many were single – unmarried\, divorced\, widowed. In this presentation she will look at the various mobilities that these and other Malian women were engaged in\, to examine the kinds of meanings and experiences they were associated with. She will start by discussing the role of local Islamic\, patriarchal and Mande ideals in relation to women’s mobilities. Gunvor then moves on to examine the kinds of mobilities that were associated with womanhood\, focusing specifically on how conceptions of womanhood were linked to liminal or perpetual conditions of strangerhood. By looking at the different meanings of women’s mobilities she argues that it becomes possible to explore not only what “ideal femininity” looked like but also\, to consider alternative femininities and the changing discourses on gender. \nBiography \nDr Gunvor Jónsson is a Departmental Lecturer in Migration and Development at the Oxford Department of International Development\, University of Oxford. She is a founding member of IMIn (the International Migration Institute network\, www.imi-n.org) and Review Editor of Migration & Society (Berghahn Journals). She is a trained anthropologist and holds a PhD from SOAS (University of London); an MA from Copenhagen; and undergraduate degrees from the University of Pretoria. Gunvor specialises in migration and mobilities in Africa\, and the anthropology of West Africa (Mali/Senegal). \nDate: Monday 5 February 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/the-meanings-of-womens-mobilities-gender-ideals-and-female-mobility-in-west-africa/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180122T083000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180122T163000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142909Z
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SUMMARY:Social cohesion and violence prevention symposium
DESCRIPTION:South Africa is a place of many contradictions\, conflicts\, and tensions\, including but not limited to racism\, sexism\, and xenophobia. Since the 2000s\, the term “social cohesion” has been used as something of a catchall ideal\, to which these are all an affront. As common as the term is\, it does not rest on a clear analysis of why social tensions exist\, or what is to be done about those that do. So far\, social cohesion has proved both elusive and resistant to official encouragement. \nThe GCRO and the South African Research Chair in Mobility and the Politics of Difference at ACMS\, in partnership\, are undertaking a programme of research into the empirics of violence prevention\, based on previous work on social cohesion. As part of the preparation for this programme a ‘State of Knowledge Symposium’ will bring together academics and practitioners working on problems of social tension\, and particularly those that manifest as violence\, in an academic setting. The interest of this workshop is to interrogate the kinds of interventions that are being deployed to address this field of social problems\, with a particular focus on anti-violence work. \nSome initial questions include: \n● To what extent do those who run various interventions articulate a theory of change\, which conceptualises how their intervention will ‘work’ to achieve the goals they have in mind? \n● What goals do those running interventions hope to achieve? \n● What do they think are the specific causes of violence and related problems? \n● Why were specific methodologies and approaches chosen for particular interventions (over alternative methodologies)? \n● How has the thinking of implementing agents shifted over time in relation to a particular approach they are pursuing? \n● To what extent have studies done to establish the impact of particular interventions (e.g. M&E)? \n● What are the major opportunities that various actors\, including government\, should be exploiting to reduce violence and the potential for violence? \nDate: Monday 22 January 2018 \nTime: 8.30 -16.30 \nVenue: Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/social-cohesion-and-violence-prevention-symposium/
LOCATION:Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171121T143000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171121T153000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142907Z
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SUMMARY:MoVE 2017: Two Arts-based Research Projects
DESCRIPTION:The MoVE project of the African Centre for Migration & Society is holding an exhibition that showcases two visual and narrative research projects conducted in 2016 and 2017.  Both projects involved collaboration with the MoVE Project and the Sisonke Sex Worker Movement. We feature an exhibition of The Sex Worker Poster Project: a poster conducted with persons who sell sex in Mpumalanga\, and an exhibition of the sex worker newsletter project entitled\, Izwi Lethu: Our Voices. \nOpening remarks: Judy Seidman on the history of posters in activism in South Africa \nJudy Seidman is a cultural worker and visual artist. Between 1980 and 1985\, Judy worked with the Medu Art Ensemble in Gaborone\, Botswana\, to make posters for the liberation struggle in South Africa. Since then she has worked as a curator\, facilitator and freelance designer\, for various social movements\, including the trade unions\, AIDS campaigns\, Curriculum Development Project\, Khulumani Support Group\,  the 1in9 Campaign and the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce. \nDate:    Tuesday 21 November 2017 \nTime:    14:30 \nVenue:  Workers Museum\, Newtown\, Johannesburg \nThe exhibition will run until 20 December 2017.
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/move-2017-two-arts-based-research-projects/
LOCATION:Workers’ Museum\, Jeppe Street\, Newtown\, Johannesburg
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171109T160000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171109T173000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142907Z
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SUMMARY:Soft infrastructure: Recalibrating aesthetics\, economies\, and urban epistemologies
DESCRIPTION:The Academy for African Urban Diversity; a joint initiative of the African Centre for Migration & Society; the African Centre for Cities; and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity invites you to a special public lecture by Dr Mpho Matsipa (Wits City Institute\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg). \nA city like Johannesburg offers a glimpse into how immigration\, black female sexuality and shifts in urban retail economies provide important economic and cultural resources to urban residents and users. By exploring black cultural practices\, like braiding\, as both ontology and epistemology\, the lecture will explore how such practices recalibrate local economies\, infrastructures\, and aesthetic codes\, and thus might co-constitute emergent urban identities and a way of knowing the city. The intimate\, networked\, and fractal nature of black hair braiding spaces disrupts the rigid colonial spatial orders of the city and its architecture. \nHowever\, can such soft infrastructures sufficiently disrupt the grand narrative of African cities in ‘crisis’\, while also disrupting colonial and colonizing cartographies of African urban environment? \nBiography \nDr Mpho Matsipa is a researcher at the Wits City Institute. After completing her professional degree in Architecture at the University of Cape Town\, with a distinction in design\, Mpho was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and later\, a Carnegie Grant as a graduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her PhD in Architecture\, from the University of California\, Berkeley\, is titled The Order of Appearances explored the entangled geographies of urban informality\, urban redevelopment and the politics of race\, gender and aesthetics in Johannesburg’s inner city. Mpho has written critical essays and reviews on public art\, culture and space for Art South Africa\, the Architectural Review and Thesis 11 (forthcoming). \nMpho has worked as an architect and she has been shortlisted in two prestigious national design competitions. She has curated several exhibitions\, including of the South Africa Pavilion at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition\, Venice Biennale (2008).She has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture and associate research scholar at Columbia GSAPP and Curator of Studio-X Johannesburg –  an experimental public platform on architecture and the city sponsored by Columbia University. She is currently co-curating a pan-African architecture exhibition at the Architecture Museum in Munich titled “African Mobilities: This is not a Refugee Camp Exhibition”\, that will open in April 2018. \nFor more information and to RSVP: info@migration.org.za \nDate:    Thursday 9 November 2017 \nTime:    16:00 to 17:30 \nVenue:  Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, East Campus\, University of the Witwatersrand
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/soft-infrastructure-recalibrating-aesthetics-economies-and-urban-epistemologies/
LOCATION:Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171108
DTSTAMP:20260803T142907Z
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SUMMARY:Academy for African Urban Diversity launched at the African Centre for Migration & Society
DESCRIPTION:The Academy for African Urban Diversity (AAUD) was launched at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) on 6 November 2017. \nAAUD is a joint initiative of ACMS; the African Centre for Cities; and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. It brings together a cohort of post-fieldwork doctoral students exploring diversity in African cities to debate and theorize the political\, social and economic processes surrounding Africa’s growing and diversifying cities. \nThe initiative creates interdisciplinary engagement among young and senior scholars working on urban studies on the African continent. The AAUD launch began with a welcome note from Wits Dean of Humanities Professor Ruksana Osman. Osman highlighted the importance of AAUD in aligning with the University of the Witwatersrand’s vision to nurture young\, talented\, academic African researchers. \nWits Dean of Humanities Professor Ruksana Osman welcoming AAUD fellows \nOther top South African and global academics also welcomed the initiative. “The AAUD is a key and very important opportunity for scholars to advance their understanding of diversity in African cities\, and to generate new ways of understanding urban processes on the continent”\, said Professor Edgar Pieterse\, Director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. \nResearch Fellow at the African Centre for Cities\, Professor Henrietta Nyamnjoh expressed her excitement to be part of the AAUD innovative interdisciplinary research and workshop with young and senior scholars from around the continent focusing on urban studies. \nThe initiative is also an opportunity to foster collaboration across the institutions and researchers involved. \n  \nThe platform will help enable wider knowledge sharing via the development of a transnational scholarly community and the strengthening of collaborative engagements between Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity\, the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town\, added Pieterse. \nAccording to Dr Léonie Newhouse\, Senior Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity\, by bringing together next-generation scholars from all over the continent and around the world who are doing innovative research on diverse issues for African cities\, AAUD promises to be a productive time for the fellows with the added benefit of broadening their networks as much as their theoretical horizons. “For me\, this is a truly exciting collaboration”\, she said. \nIn addition to strengthening links between their institute and the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town\, the collaboration will play a role in supporting the development of skills and knowledge of a new generation of Urban African scholars. \nEngida Dube a PhD student at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia is one of the nine AAUD fellows. Dube’s research is on the spatial and temporal dynamics and management of street vending in Dire Dawa\, a city in Ethiopia. “I saw the call from a friend in New York on Facebook then I applied and got accepted”\, he said. “It is important to bring different people with different backgrounds together. We get to learn from various colleagues with interdisciplinary thinking and learn from senior academic staff”\, he added. \nProfessor Loren Landau who is the South African Research Chair in Mobility and the Politics of Difference at ACMS acknowledged that the initiative is a milestone for the African academy. “People talk about decolonization. As I see it\, this moves beyond critique. This is creating a new form of globally embedded African scholarship”\, he alluded. \nThe week-long workshop will run from November 6-10. It is part of a six-year project moving in two cycles of Johannesburg\, Germany and Cape Town. The next workshop will be held in Göttingen\, Germany in 2018.
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/academy-for-african-urban-diversity-launched-at-the-african-centre-for-migration-society/
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SUMMARY:Addressing the issues behind the European refugee crisis: Towards new global solidarities and solutions
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society’s South African Research Chair in Mobility and the Politics of Difference invites you to a special public lecture by Liv Tørres (Executive Director\, Nobel Peace Center\, Oslo). \nIn the beginning of 2015\, large numbers of refugees and migrants started arriving in Europe. The so-called “European refugee crisis” had developed slowly since 2010\, but evolved into a mass movement of people\, with record-numbers of refugees passing the doorstep of Europe. \n\nAltogether 1\,3 million people arrived with relative high numbers settling in Germany\, Sweden and France\, with Italy and Greece as frontline states which carry most of the practical and political “burdens”. Two years and an agreement with Turkey later\, thousands of people are still stuck in holding camps in Greece; Italy is overwhelmed; large parts of Europe refuse to help; right-wing political parties and far-right groups capitalize on fears\, at the same time as regular Islamist attacks contribute to growing tensions\, mounting radicalization\, the closing of borders and a divided and more nationalistic Europe. \nPutting this into a larger perspective though\, the numbers of refugees arriving in Europe are low compared to the larger migration and refugee flows internationally where it is countries in the south taking most of the solidarity responsibility. Why has this become such a crisis in Europe? What kind of a crisis is it really? And with new waves of migrants and refugees expected\, what needs to be done? Is this not more of a political crisis and solidarity crisis than a “refugee crisis”? \nBiography \nLiv Tørres is Executive Director at the Nobel Peace Center. She is former General Secretary of the Norwegian People’s Aid. Previous engagements include political advisor for Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion (Labour Party); research director at the research institute Fafo; associate professor at the University of Oslo and senior advisor at the Research Council of Norway. Tørres holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo. She has worked many years on issues such as international labour markets\, trade unionism\, development policy and democratization. She lived and worked for many years in South Africa and is also visiting professor at Wits University in Johannesburg South Africa. She is an active voice in the Norwegian contemporary debate\, within topics related to foreign policy\, the refugee crisis and the role of leadership in an unstable world. \nFor more information and to RSVP: info@migration.org.za \n\n\nDate:    Tuesday 24 October 2017 \nTime:    14:30 to 16:30 \nVenue:  ACMS Seminar Room\, Room 2147\, South-East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, East Campus\, University of the Witwatersrand
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/addressing-the-issues-behind-the-european-refugee-crisis-towards-new-global-solidarities-and-solutions/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room (2163)\, Solomon Mahlangu House (2nd floor)\, East Campus\, University of the Witwatersrand
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SUMMARY:Staying with complexity: Narratives of arriving and living in Durban
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Staying with complexity: narratives of arriving and living in Durban presented by Kira Erwin (Senior Researcher\, Urban Futures Centre\, Durban University of Technology). \nThis seminar offers initial insights from a project on Migration and Inclusivity in the city of Durban. The project collected 30 oral histories; from women applying for asylum permits\, from women who are in South Africa on study permits and spousal visas\, and from South African women who have come to stay in a single-sex hostel in Durban from rural areas in the province. Themes from the narratives highlight how storytelling is used as a survival strategy\, how precariousness in the city is shaped by entangled variables (some which are brought with migrants from their home spaces)\, and the role of religion and gender in determining agency. These diverse stories of migration and arrival in Durban offer complex and contradictory narratives. Complicating and nuancing our understanding of migrancy is critical if we are to create city spaces that make for a more dignified life for all. Yet the richness\, fractures and commonalities in these narratives also present a challenge for researchers; how do we begin to formulate city level policy and planning from this diverse narrative data? \nBiography\nDr Kira Erwin is a senior researcher in the Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology. She is a sociologist whose research focuses on constructions of race and how these relate to various urban spaces and place identities. \nDate: Tuesday 17 October 2017 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/staying-with-complexity-narratives-of-arriving-and-living-in-durban/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Urban Refugees: Resilience\, social networks and policy implications lessons from Nairobi
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Urban refugees: Resilience\, social networks and policy implications lessons from Nairobi\, Peshawar and Gaziantep presented by Caroline Wanjiku-Kihato (Associate Professor\, Graduate School of Architecture\, University of Johannesburg). \n\nThis is part of a three-country study that explores the role of social capital and social networks in urban refugees’ quest for self-reliance in Nairobi (Kenya)\, Peshawar (Pakistan) and Gaziantep (Turkey). Using survey data and in-depth interviews conducted with refugees in Nairobi\, this paper outlines the nature of social relationships in refugees’ home and host countries and examines the ways in which social relationships shape their socio-economic capabilities. The study used both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Our survey comprised of 1074 interviews with refugees from twelve countries\, now living in Nairobi. In addition to the survey\, we held one-on-one interviews with twenty-two respondents (with an equal number of male and female respondents) from Eritrea\, Ethiopia\, Somali\, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)\, South Sudan\, Uganda and Burundi. Urban refugees in Nairobi are income and asset poor\, living mostly from hand to mouth. With few income generating opportunities\, low and irregular remittance transfers\, less than half are able to meet even basic needs such as clean drinking water or sanitation. Overall\, the research finds that few respondents have social networks in Nairobi. In fact 75% of our sample said that they did not have any contacts in the city before arriving. What emerges is a picture of a population that is socially isolated. Although the survey shows that primary kin connections provide some support to newly arrived refugees in Kenya\, these too are tenuous and provide erratic support in the medium to longer term. In fact in some cases\, these ‘strong’ social connections result in weak or negative forms of social capital causing greater individual isolation. In-depth interviews show that refugee households that experience external economic shocks\, rely increasingly on weak ties – strangers or well wishers – for assistance. Overall\, men are more economically resilient than women – they are more likely to earn more and find work than their female counterparts. Our research shows that the most important indicators of employment are language skills\, gender and the age of the respondent. Further\, Somali and Eritrean refugees have better economic outcomes than other refugee populations\, while Ugandan and Burundi refugees appear to be the most vulnerable. \nBiography \nCaroline Wanjiku Kihato is an Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of Architecture. In 2011\, she received a MacArthur award on Migration and Development and spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM)\, Georgetown University\, Washington DC. Her career has involved both teaching and conducting research in the academy and the non-profit sector in South Africa. Since 2006\, she has worked with Urban LandMark as its southern African program coordinator. She was previously a Policy Analyst at the Development Bank of Southern Africa and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. She worked for six years as a Policy Analyst at the Centre for Policy Studies. Her research and teaching interests are migration\, governance and urbanization in the global South. She holds a MSc in Development Planning (University of the Witwatersrand) and a PhD in Sociology (University of South Africa). She is the co-editor of Urban Diversity: Space\, Culture and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide (Johns Hopkins). During her year at ISIM at Georgetown University\, she completed a manuscript entitled\, In Between City: Migrant Women’s Experiences in Johannesburg\, which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan this year. Her current work looks at the dynamics of migration\, gender\, and land markets in Maputo\, Zambia\, and Nairobi. \nDate: Tuesday 10 October 2017 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/urban-refugees-resilience-social-networks-and-policy-implications-lessons-from-nairobi/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Routes And Rites To The City: Mobility\, Diversity And Religious Space In Johannesburg
DESCRIPTION:The Wits Department of Sociology and African Centre for Migration & Society are pleased to host a book launch and panel discussion of Routes and Rites to the City: Mobility\, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg. Routes and Rites is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg\, South Africa. The project has two inter-related publications: the first is a full length\, multi-authored polygraph (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2016) edited by Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon\, Lorena Núñez\, Peter Kankonde Bukasa and Bettina Malcomess;  the second is a freely available visual supplement curated by Bettina Malcomess. Both include multiple authors and photographers. \nThe project analyses transnational and local migration in contemporary and historical perspective\, along with movements of commodities\, ideas\, sounds and colours within the city. It re-theorizes urban ‘super-diversity’ as a plurality of religious\, ethnic\, national and racial groups but also as the diverse processes through which religion produces urban space. The authors argue that while religion facilitates movement\, belonging and aspiration in the city\, it is complicit in establishing new forms of enclosure\, moral order and spatial and gendered control. Multi-authored and interdisciplinary\, this edited collection and visual supplement deals with a wide variety of sites and religions\, including Christianity\, Islam\, Hinduism and Judaism. Its original reading of post-apartheid Johannesburg advances global debates around religion\, urbanization\, migration and diversity\, and will appeal to students and scholars working in these fields. \nThe book developed in the Religion and Migration Initiative of the African Centre for Migration & Society and Department of Sociology\, and features several scholars from University of Witwatersrand\, University of Johannesburg and others. The visual supplement was produced through the Wits School of Arts. The publisher’s book link is here: http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137588890. The visual supplement can be downloaded here: https://routesrites.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/nat_dig260515.pdf \nSpeakers & Panelists: Bettina Malcomess (Wits School of Arts)\, Lorena Núñez (Department of Sociology\, Wits)\, Pragna Ragunanan (Department of Sociology\, University of Johannesburg)\, Alex Wafer (Department of Geography\, Wits)\,  Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon (Department of Anthropology\, Wits)\, Eric Worby (Graduate Studies Centre\, Wits). \n\nDate: Thursday 28 September 2017 \nTime: 13.30 -15.30 \nVenue: Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus \n*Photo credit: Dean Hutton.
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/routes-and-rites-to-the-city-mobility-diversity-and-religious-space-in-johannesburg/
LOCATION:Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Mystic motives: Re-evaluating clandestine migration out of Senegal
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Mystic motives: Re-evaluating clandestine migration out of Senegal presented by Stephanie Maher (African Centre for Migration & Society\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nBetween 2006 and 2008\, tens of thousands of young predominantly male boat migrants left the shores of West Africa in the hopes of reaching the Spanish Canary Islands. At the time\, policy analysts explained the exodus as being motivated primarily by ‘brute poverty’. Since then\, anthropologists have nuanced this strictly fiscal interpretation by exploring how other social factors contributed to clandestine departures\, such as the inability of youth in Africa to achieve ‘social adulthood’. While such scholarship complicates the broad strokes approach of policy analysis by attending to the difficulties of obtaining upward social mobility in climates of austerity and volatility\, it remains largely centered on the economics of individual status and neglects the reality of fulfilling spiritual obligations in a world of increasingly restricted borders. This presentation offers another reading of the motivating factors by arguing that economic motives\, though profound\, cannot be divorced from their socio-religious milieu. Rather\, migration is often a mode of aspiring to piety and striving to sustain communities back home in morally valuable ways. As such\, migrants are both economic and religious actors embedded in spiritual economies of reciprocity and obligation. In particular\, clandestine migrants in Senegal are faced with the peculiar challenge of seeking religious fulfillment in a world where legal paths to mobility have been progressively foreclosed. By analyzing the narratives of refoulés (forcibly returned migrants) in Senegal\, this presentation will reveal how migration is not simply a response to ‘brute poverty’ or the desire for individual status\, but is also linked to spiritual aspirations and the compelling desire to care for kin and community. Understanding these motivations is critical to appreciating contemporary patterns of mobility across the Mediterranean today. \nBiography \nStephanie Maher joined the African Center for Migration & Society as a postdoctoral fellow in 2017. She previously conducted ethnographic research on clandestine migration\, religious aspiration\, and forced repatriation in Senegal (2008-2014)\, and received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Washington in 2015. Building on her previous work with West African migrants\, her current research examines the extent to which immigrants and refugees in South African townships use their religious affiliations to access resources such as housing and employment\, and how faith-based organizations constitute a new form of political authority in urban South Africa. \nDate: Tuesday 19 September 2017 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/mystic-motives-re-evaluating-clandestine-migration-out-of-senegal/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Media portrayal of immigration in the South African media\, 2011-2015
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Media portrayal of immigration in the South African media\, 2011-2015 presented by Nixon Kariithi (Tangaza Africa Media). The issue of media representation of immigrants is particularly pertinent today\, given the current anti-immigrant sentiment in parts of Europe and the United States. In South Africa\, negative attitudes towards foreigners are common and media discursive descriptions of immigrants as illegal\, undocumented or a dangerous threat is typical. This study utilises quantitative tools of analysis to explore the media coverage of immigration adopting the RASIM Corpus Linguistics (CL) approach. \nThe rubric – REFUGEE\, ASYLUM-SEEKER\, IMMIGRANT\, MIGRANT is adjusted to RASFIM – REFUGEE\, ASYLUM-SEEKER\, FOREIGNER\, IMMIGRANT\, MIGRANT – to more appropriately account for the specific nuances of representations of immigrants in the South African media. The data\, comprising of over 5\,000 relevant media articles\, was drawn in annual tranches for the period 2011–2015. The findings identify significant patterns that are consistent with extant literature on media constructions of foreigners as “illegal immigrants.” Other findings relating to “shop” and “trade” references offer evidence of the complex and at times contradictory nature of public discourses on immigration. Media narratives go as far as to suggest that foreign-owned shops are fronts to conceal “drug-dealing” and other “illicit activities.” \nBiography \nProfessor Nixon Kariithi\, CEO of Tangaza Africa Media\, is one of Africa’s leading scholars in journalism\, public communications and media studies. Over the past 27 years\, he has played a leading role in researching and teaching business and economics journalism and media studies across Africa. Kariithi was associate professor and Pearson Chair of Economics Journalism at Rhodes University\, Grahamstown (1999-2004)\, and associate professor and head of media studies at University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg (2004-2009). He has also been appointed visiting professor at Cairo University\, Egypt; Addis Ababa University\, Ethiopia; and City University of New York\, USA. He is currently research associate at the University of Pretoria. \nKariithi has consulted on corporate reputation management\, stakeholder management\, international business issues\, change management and organisational communication with over 50 leading organisations in Africa. Among his well-celebrated achievements is the global patent of MRI\, the world’s first index of media reputation\, an innovation that opened new ways of evaluating the impact of media coverage on corporate reputation management. \nDate: Tuesday 29 August 2017 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/media-portrayal-of-immigration-in-the-south-african-media-2011-2015/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:The migration management of refugees in contemporary South Africa: the erosion of the refugee regime?
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The migration management of refugees in contemporary South Africa: the erosion of the refugee regime? presented by Nicholas Maple (Refugee Law Initiative (RLI)\, Institute of Commonwealth Studies\, University of London).  This presentation will provide a multi-scalar perspective on contemporary South African refugee policy and practice. South Africa has traditionally been held up by UNHCR as a model of how to receive refugees on the African continent. On paper\, this is still true\, with robust national refugee legislation and a national constitution which together guarantee international and regional obligations towards refugees. Yet\, refugee policy and practice in South Africa over recent years has been deviating significantly from the law. Drawing on the new South African Green and White Papers on International Migration as a focal point for discussion\, this presentation will suggest via a form of regime shifting\, the treatment of refugees in South Africa is rapidly moving from policy and practice founded on the global refugee regime to a new migration management approach whereby refugees are becoming seen solely as economic migrants. \nBiography \nNicholas is a PhD student at the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI)\, Institute of Commonwealth Studies\, University of London\, under the supervision of Dr David Cantor. His PhD is investigating reception policies in southern Africa and how they interact with the refugee regime and its core norms (with a particular focus on freedom of movement). He is currently in the middle of an affiliation at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand and will be travelling to Zambia later this year to start an affiliation with the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research in Lusaka. He teaches on the core module (An Introduction to Refugee and Forced Migration Studies) on the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies at the School of Advanced Study\, University of London. He has two years experience working in the field as an advocate for organisations such as Asylum Access\, Norwegian Refugee Council and UNHCR. Finally\, he has previously completed consultancy work for the RLI and Chatham House and has had work published by UNHCR. \nDate: 15 August 2017 \nTime: 12:30 – 13:30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/the-migration-management-of-refugees-in-contemporary-south-africa-the-erosion-of-the-refugee-regime/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Public exhibition and discussion: Know my story
DESCRIPTION:Know my story is supported by various organisations and individuals\, including Move: Methods.Visual.Explore\, the Migration and health project Southern Africa: maHp and the Security at the Margins – SeaM project of the African Centre for Migration & Society\, Wits University. We invite you to the public exhibition and discussion of Know my story\, a participatory photography and art project involving sex workers who live and work in Soweto. \nDate: 20 July 2017 \nTime: 10:00 – 14:00 \nVenue: Workers’ Museum\, Jeppe Street\, Newtown\, Johannesburg
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/public-exhibition-and-discussion-know-my-story/
LOCATION:Workers’ Museum\, Jeppe Street\, Newtown\, Johannesburg
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SUMMARY:Mapping xenophobic violence in South Africa: Opportunities and pitfalls of hot-spot and causal analysis in combatting xenophobic violence
DESCRIPTION:[higgs_blockquote cite_text=”As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Mapping xenophobic violence in South Africa: Opportunities and pitfalls of hot-spot and causal analysis in combatting xenophobic violence presented by Dr Alexandra Hiropoulos (African Centre for Migration & Society\, University of the Witwatersrand). “]International migrants in South Africa have been remarkably vulnerable to socio-economic exclusion\, corruption and violence since 1994 while public discourse continues to focus on the supposed negative impacts of migration. In the first half of 2017 alone\, hundreds of non-nationals have been attacked\, displaced and had their shops looted. While no official information on xenophobic violence is available by the South African Police Service or Statistics South Africa\, the African Centre for Migration & Society has been tracking xenophobic threats and violence across the country through its platform\, Xenowatch. Drawing from spatial data on 500 incidents of xenophobic violence between 1994 and 2017 as well Census 2011 and other data\, this presentation will highlight maps of hotspot locations for xenophobic violence and discuss possible causal factors. \nSince mapping is an increasingly popular tool for understanding and acting on crime and violence\, the presentation explores how we can critically use spatial and causal analysis to understand xenophobic violence and inform conflict prevention and resolution initiatives as well as local and national policy. \nBiography\nAlexandra Hiropoulos is a post-doctoral research fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand. With a background in crime intelligence and criminology\, her research employs spatial\, quantitative and qualitative methods to examine xenophobic violence\, structural determinants of violent crime and the policing of migration in South Africa. \nDate: Tuesday 20 June 2017 \nTime: 12.30 – 13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/mapping-xenophobic-violence-in-south-africa-opportunities-and-pitfalls-of-hot-spot-and-causal-analysis-in-combatting-xenophobic-violence/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:An “NGOisation” of the social cohesion policies between migrants and South Africans? Initial results of an ethnographic investigation of the Cape Town migrant cause
DESCRIPTION:[higgs_blockquote cite_text=”The African Centre for Migration & Society will host Leo Fortaillier\, to present a seminar on questions of “NGOisation” (Falquet\, 2003) of the migrant cause and its effects.”]There have been diverse answers from the “civil society” to xenophobic violence since the end of Apartheid. Over the years\, more and more “specialised” Non-Governmental Organisations – involved in international “policy networks” (Le Galès\, 2004) and using organisation and intervention principles imported from abroad – have emerged. The presentation will question this “NGOisation” (Falquet\, 2003) of the migrant cause and its effects. From January to December 2016\, the presenter conducted a participant observation in a Capetonian NGO\, “implementing partner” of the UNHCR tackling social cohesion issues between South Africans and nonnationals in underprivileged communities. Building on the data collected during this fieldwork\, and on the results of a second participant observation started in January 2017 within a similar structure\, the presentation will analyse the impact of these NGOs’ intermediary position between different social worlds (funders\, South African state\, South African and non-national communities\, university\, social movements\, other NGOs\, etc.) on the activists’ work and on their individual trajectories. \nIt will posit that social cohesion public policies are the product of the aggregated actions of the different “street level bureaucrats” (Lipsky\, 1980) acting within those NGOs who reify in their daily routines broader social structures. Hence\, what is at stake here is not solely the product of interactions between “professionals” and “beneficiaries”\, but is also dependent on the supranational organisational and politics dynamics in which those NGOs are incorporated (Siméant\, 2010). This is why the presentation will endeavour to articulate different levels of observation (micro\, meso\, macro) to pinpoint the actions of those associations in ”the causal series leading from the most central places of the power to the most deprived regions of the social world” (Bourdieu\, 1993). \nBiography\nLeo Fortaillier is a doctoral student at the University of the Western Cape and at the Laboratoire des Sciences Sociales du Politique (Sciences Po Toulouse). His work focuses on the implementation of social cohesion programs between South Africans and migrants by NGOs in the Western Cape region. \nDate: 14 March 2017 \nTime: 12:30 – 13:30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room\, SH 2163\, South-East Wing\, Second Floor\, Senate House\, East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/an-ngoisation-of-the-social-cohesion-policies-between-migrants-and-south-africans-initial-results-of-an-ethnographic-investigation-of-the-cape-town-migrant-cause/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170308T160000
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SUMMARY:Migrants\, city making and the value creation processes in a multiscalar perspective: Space and time in migration scholarship
DESCRIPTION:[higgs_blockquote cite_text=”The African Centre for Migration & Society in collaboration with Wits City Institute\, invites you to a special public lecture by Wits City Institute Mellon Visiting Scholar\, Professor Ayse Caglar (University of Vienna\, Department of Culture and Social Anthropology).”]In the context of increased visibility of migratory movements\, there has been a renewed interest in migration processes\, practices and the challenges migration dynamics pose to the taken for granted “groups of solidarity”\, and to scholarship aiming to analyse these processes. However\, many of the approaches in migration scholarship including the transnational migration\, fail to capture these dynamics in light of a multiscalar perspective. Such and endeavor requires a radical rethinking of the spatial and temporal frameworks of migration scholarship\, as well as the unit of analysis. \nAlthough an increasing number of migration scholars have started to address the spatial frameworks informing migration scholarship and focused on the location of migrants in space\, the temporal narratives of migration scholarship have been rather neglected. The temporal frames informing different conceptualizations of migrants\, their attachments and relations also situate migrants in time in distinctive ways. In this talk\, Professor Ayse Caglar suggests that to unravel the spatial and temporal frameworks of migration scholarship including the cultural industries within which migrants are emplaced\, we need a multiscalar perspective. In this way\, we can situate the revaluing and devaluing of differences within broader dynamics of value creation processes and accumulation of wealth through displacement and dispossession in the city. Professor Ayse Caglar argues for the necessity of a multiscalar analysis of these processes\, which in turn necessitates an analysis of a historical conjuncture. Deploying concepts of displacement\, emplacement\, and historical conjuncture in analysing the interplay between migrants and city-making processes might provide us a venue to come up with the challenges of the migration scholarship in 21st century. \n\nDate: 8 March 2017 \nTime: 16h00-17h30 \nVenue: Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus \nFor more information and to RSVP: info@migration.org.za / 011 717 4033
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/migrants-city-making-and-the-value-creation-processes-in-a-multiscalar-perspective-space-and-time-in-migration-scholarship/
LOCATION:Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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