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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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