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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170829T123000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170815T123000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170720T100000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170314T123000
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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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SUMMARY:Book launch and discussion: The mayor of Mogadishu
DESCRIPTION:An epic\, uplifting story of one family’s journey through the violent unraveling of Somalia\, and a timely exploration of what it means to lose your country and then to reclaim it. \n In The Mayor of Mogadishu\, one of the BBC’s most experienced foreign correspondents\, Andrew Harding\, reveals the tumultuous life of Mohamud ‘Tarzan’ Nur – an impoverished nomad who was abandoned in a state orphanage in newly independent Somalia\, and became a street brawler and activist. When the country collapsed into civil war and anarchy\, Tarzan and his young family became part of an exodus\, eventually spending twenty years in Chalk Farm in north London.But in 2010 Tarzan returned\, as Mayor\, to the unrecognizable ruins of a city now almost entirely controlled by the Islamist militants of Al Shabab. For many in Mogadishu\, and in the diaspora\, Tarzan became a galvanizing symbol of courage and hope for Somalia. But for others\, he was a divisive thug\, who sank beneath the corruption and clan rivalries that continue\, today\, to threaten the country’s revival. \nThe Mayor of Mogadishu is a rare an insider’s account of Somalia’s optimistic beginnings and subsequent unraveling\, and an intimate portrayal of one family’s extraordinary journey. \nBiography\nANDREW HARDING has been living and working abroad\, as a foreign correspondent\, for the past 25 years\, in Russia\, the Caucasus\, Asia and Africa. He has been visiting Somalia since 2000. His television and radio reports for BBC News have won him international recognition\, including an Emmy\, an award from Britain’s Foreign Press Association\, and other awards in France\, the United States\, Monte Carlo\, and Hong Kong. He currently lives in Johannesburg with his family. \nDate: 28 February 2017 \nTime: 17:00-19:00 \nVenue: Anthropology Museum\, Central Block\, East Campus \nRSVPs: info@migration.org.za by no later than 24 February
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/book-launch-and-discussion-the-mayor-of-mogadishu/
LOCATION:Anthropology Museum\, Central Block\, East Campus
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170228T123000
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SUMMARY:“We are at war with the Devil”: Politics of exclusion of LGBTI groups amongst conservative Christian groups in Uganda
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society presents a seminar by Dr. Barbara Bompani; Associate Professor in African Development and Director of the Centre of African Studies at the School of Social and Political Science\, the University of Edinburgh. The rise and political action of Pentecostal-charismatic communities have\, in the past decade\, impacted upon the very nature of Ugandan politics\, firmly integrating morally aligned perspectives into public policy. The impact of Pentecostal discourses in the country is in particular laid bare around issues of sexuality and morality. The Anti-Pornography Act\, the Marriage and Divorce Bill\, and the Anti-Homosexuality Act briefly approved in December 2013 and then nullified by the The Ugandan Constitutional Court in August 2014\, are intrinsic to this public moralisation and religiously driven public action. Since suffering isolation and persecution during Idi Amin’s era\, Pentecostal-charismatic churches (PCCs) have grown rapidly over the past three decades. \nAlongside their numerical growth their political and public participation has increased and is now very visible. In particular\, Pentecostal-charismatic leaders have focused their energies on articulating the immorality of homosexuality\, which they often present as a Western import that clashes with African and Christian values. Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, Transsexual and Intersex (LGBTI) communities have become\, in the Pentecostal imaginary\, the sinful dangerous Other\, the non-African influence that is corrupting the nation and its future\, and that must be excluded. Drawing from fieldwork in four Pentecostal-charismatic churches in Kampala as well as media and policy analysis\, this presentation will critically investigate issues of exclusion\, danger\, urgency\, morally-framed public action\, sexual citizenship and social pollution intrinsic in Ugandan Pentecostal narratives and theological understandings to provide an overview of why and how those relatively new religiously-driven actors became so active and influent in contemporary Ugandan life. \nBiography\nDr. Bompani is an Associate Professor in African Development and Director of the Centre of African Studies at the School of Social and Political Science\, the University of Edinburgh. Dr Bompani’s work focuses on the intersection between religion\, politics and development in Sub-Saharan Africa. For several years\, her research has investigated religious organisations\, their public role and socio-political action in post-apartheid South Africa. She has also been involved in a research project looking at Christian churches in Kenya and their role in promoting biotechnology and development. Between 2009 and 2011 she worked on a research project that analysed the role of Faith-based Organisations (FBOs) in South Africa to support non-citizens during the xenophobic attacks in 2008 and in 2009 and the churches’ critical voice towards State’s intervention. Since 2012 she has been involved in a research project that investigates the role of Pentecostal-charismatic churches (PCCs) in framing public and political discourses around morality\, sexuality and public engagement in Uganda. She is currently publishing and presenting on this topic. \nDate: 28 February 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/we-are-at-war-with-the-devil-politics-of-exclusion-of-lgbti-groups-amongst-conservative-christian-groups-in-uganda/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Internationalizing informality: Work\, precarity and vulnerability
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society\, together with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the South African Labour Bulletin (SALB) will be hosting a dialogue on Internationalizing Informality: Work\, Precarity and Vulnerability. \n\nThe goal of the dialogue will be to develop new advocacy strategies\, to bring new partners into the conversation and to provide a broader lens for understanding labour migration in the region and strategies to better protect migrant and local low skilled workers. \nKey speakers have been invited from trade unions\, government\, and civil society to make presentations that will feed into a wider discussion. \n\nSpeakers include: \n\nPat Horn\, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)\nMandla Masuku\, General Secretary at Migrant Workers Union of South Africa (MIWUSA)\nProfessor Branka Likic-Brboric\, Associate Professor at REMESO\, Institute for Migration\, Ethnicity and Society\, Linköping University\nPercy Masuku\, Public Services International (PSI)\n\nFor logistical purposes\, please RSVP to dialogues@migration.org.za by 9 February 2017.  \nDate: 22 February 2017 \nTime: 10:00 – 12:00 \nVenue: Diakonia Conference Centre\, Durban
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/internationalizing-informality-work-precarity-and-vulnerability/
LOCATION:Diakonia Conference Centre\, Durban
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170214T133000
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SUMMARY:EU “refugee crisis”: Responses East and West and beyond
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society presents a seminar by Branka Likic-Brboric who is an Associate Professor at REMESO (Institute for Research on Migration\, Ethnicity and Society)\, Department of Social and Welfare Studies\, Linkoping University. The presentation addresses the recent “refugee crisis” in the EU\, diverging responses between “old” and “new” member states and subsequent streamlining towards deterrent migration policy\, rising xenophobia and populism. \nAgainst the background of the development of the EU’s enlargement and migration policy\, multiple gaps between policy goals and outcomes are identified\, giving rise to anti-migration responses and challenging EU project in general. It is argued that the EU needs an institutional rebalancing in terms of an alternative that promotes European solidarities\, social protection\, “decent work” and a right-based mobility/migration regime. \nBiography\nBranka Likic-Brboric is Associate Professor at REMESO (Institute for Research on Migration\, Ethnicity and Society)\, Department of Social and Welfare Studies\, Linkoping University. Her research encompasses the following interconnected areas: 1) globalisation and the political economy of post-socialist transformations; 2) EU enlargement\, informal economy\, new migrations and the European Social Model; 3) global governance\, migrants’ rights and “decent work”; 4) comparative studies on citizenship and immigrant integration. The combined research in these four research areas seeks an understanding of global economic restructuring. It focuses on the impacts of such restructuring on frameworks of multilevel global governance and their configuration of global and regional migration regimes\, raising issues of citizenship and non-citizenship\, and the ethnic segmentation of labour markets.  She is a co-editor of Schierup et al. (2015) Migration\, Precarity\, and Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour\, Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 2015. \nDate: 14 February 2017 \nTime: 13:30 – 14:30 \nVenue: Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, Wits University East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/eu-refugee-crisis-responses-east-and-west-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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