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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171017T123000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171010T123000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170928T133000
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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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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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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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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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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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