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SUMMARY:Virtual Discussion: Arrival at the Margins
DESCRIPTION:The editors and contributors of ‘Arrival at the Margins\,’ invite you to attend a virtual discussion of their new special issue of Migration Studies. With interdisciplinary contributions from five continents\, the issue calls on scholars to simultaneously centre and unsettle the margin: to recognise the multiplicity of margins as politically generative spaces\, frequently contoured by sustained and varied forms of mobility.  It helps to recalibrate the study of human mobility\, drawing attention to approaches\, spaces\, and transformative process underrecognised in contemporary scholarship. \nDate: 19 October 2022 \nTime: 2-3 pm UK / 9-10 am NYC \nRegistration: Click here to register \nClick here for a free download of the introduction by Natasha Iskander and Loren B Landau
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/virtual-discussion-arrival-at-the-margins/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education
DESCRIPTION:Half of the world’s 26 million refugees are children. Their formal education is disrupted\, and their lives are too often dominated by exclusion and uncertainty about what the future holds. Even kids who have the opportunity to attend school face enormous challenges\, as they struggle to integrate into unfamiliar societies and educational environments. \nIn Right Where We Belong\, Sarah Dryden-Peterson discovers that\, where governments and international agencies have been stymied\, refugee teachers and students themselves are leading. From open-air classrooms in Uganda to the hallways of high schools in Maine\, new visions for refugee education are emerging. Dryden-Peterson introduces us to people like Jacques—a teacher who created a school for his fellow Congolese refugees in defiance of local laws—and Hassan\, a Somali refugee navigating the social world of the American teenager. Drawing on more than 600 interviews in twenty-three countries\, Dryden-Peterson shows how teachers and students are experimenting with flexible forms of learning. Rather than adopt the unrealistic notion that all will soon return to “normal\,” these schools embrace unfamiliarity\, develop students’ adaptiveness\, and demonstrate how children\, teachers\, and community members can build supportive relationships across lines of difference. \nIt turns out that policymakers\, activists\, and educators have a lot to learn from displaced children and teachers. Their stories point the way to better futures for refugee students and inspire us to reimagine education broadly\, so that children everywhere are better prepared to thrive in a diverse and unpredictable world. \nSarah Dryden-Peterson is Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the founder and director of REACH\, which promotes research\, education\, and action for refugees. In addition to her university teaching\, she has taught in primary and secondary schools in the United States\, South Africa\, and Madagascar. \nDate: 13  September 2022 \nTime:13:00 – 14:30 SAST \nRegistration: Click here to register
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/virtual-book-talk-right-where-we-belong-how-refugee-teachers-and-students-are-changing-the-future-of-education/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20220802T143000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion:  Implications of Xenophobic Violence for Trade & Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Wits University’s African Centre for Migration & Society and the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab\, invite you to a panel discussion reflecting on the meaning and implications of xenophobic violence for South Africa’s economic and political future. \nThe discussion stems from a newly released  Xenowatch report: Xenophobic Violence in South Africa: An Analysis of Trends\, Causal Factors and Responses. Drawing on more than a decade of original research across South Africa\, the report describes xenophobic violence as an increasingly integral part of the country’s socio-economic and political landscape. Abetted by anti-immigrant attitudes\, xenophobic violence is rooted in democratic deficits: threats to rule of law and constitutional credibility. It highlights that violence is distinctly spatialised\, often occurring repeatedly in specific localities where economic and political competition is acute. It demonstrates that while inequality fuels popular dissatisfaction\, political opportunists and entrepreneurs scapegoat and victimise immigrants and other outsiders for their own advantage. \nThe consequences of South Africa’s anti-outsider violence extend far beyond the immediate victims but affect lives across many townships and informal settlements. Yet while violence has long been a local matter\, the forthcoming national leadership contest has seen xenophobic rhetoric and mobilisation become increasingly well-organised and national. Together these reflect a dangerous politics of localism and entitlement\, a rationing of access to rights and opportunities\, and a threat to prosperity and the constitutional order. It is these implications that this panel intends to explore. \nPresented in a hybrid format open to a live and virtual audience\, the panel will include representatives from academia\, civil society\, the media\, and former civil servants. Over ninety minutes the discussion will consider the implications of xenophobic mobilisation for South Africa’s efforts to promote economic inclusion\, democratic institutions\, and security for all its residents. It will explore implications for domestic and regional trade\, security\, and political accountability. \n  \nPANELISTS: \n\nMavuso Msimang (Former Corruption Watch Chairperson)\nSiphelele Ngobese (Researcher in the Inclusive Cities Programme\, SA Cities Network)\nJean Pierre Misago (Senior Researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society\, Wits University)\n\nIN CONVERSATION WITH: \n\nLoren Landau (Professor of Migration and Development at the University of Oxford\, and co-director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab)\n\nFor more information on the panel or the report\, contact info@mobilitygovernancelab.com \nDate: 2 August 2022 \nTime: 14.30 – 16.00 \nVenue: Senate Room\, 2nd Floor\, East Wing\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand and Online via Zoom \nRegistration: https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYucuCrpjspGNVxvTb1N94yQKQmYGA4_prF 
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/panel-discussion-implications-of-xenophobic-violence-for-trade-transformation/
LOCATION:Senate Room\, Second Floor East Wing\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220720
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: "The Blinded City: Ten Years in Inner-City Johannesburg" by Dr Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
DESCRIPTION:Wits Anthropology\, the African Centre for Migration & Society\, and the Humanities Graduate Centre cordially invite you to a launch of\, and panel discussion on\, Dr Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon’s book “The Blinded City: Ten Years in Inner-CityJohannesburg” (Pan Macmillan SA\, 2022)\, Thursday 25 August 11:30 am -1 pm\, at the Atrium\, Wits Humanities Graduate Centre and online. \nDISCUSSANTS: \n\nCikizwa Ggokoma (Inner City Federation)\nDr Kudakwashe Vanyoro (African Centre for Migration & Society)\nSiyabonga Mahlangu (Inner City Federation)\n\nFACILITATED BY: \n\nDr Kholeka Shange (Wits Anthropology)\n\nFor in-person attendance RSVP is essential. Please write to wilhelmsolomon@gmail.com with the heading ‘RSVP: Wits Blinded CityLaunch.” \nSYNOPSIS: \n‘One of the best works of narrative non-fiction to emerge from the country in years. Quite simply brilliant.’ – NIREN TOLSI \nAmid evictions\, raids\, killings\, the drug trade\, and fire\, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to keep her granddaughter as she is torn away from her. A mother seeks healing in the wake of her son’s murder. And displaced by the city’s drive for urban regeneration\, a group of blind migrants try to carve out an existence. \nThe Blinded City recounts the history of inner-city Johannesburg from 2010 to 2019\, primarily from the perspectives of the unlawful occupiers of spaces known as hijacked buildings\, bad buildings or dark buildings. Tens of thousands of residents\, both South African and foreign national\, live in these buildings in dire conditions. This book tells the story of these sites and the court cases around them\, which strike at the centre of who has the right to occupy the city. \nIn February 2010\, while Johannesburg prepared for the FIFA World Cup\, the South Gauteng High Court ordered the eviction of the unlawful occupiers of an abandoned carpet factory on Saratoga Avenue and that the city’s Metropolitan Municipality provide temporary emergency accommodation for the evicted. The case\, which became known as Blue Moonlight and went to the Constitutional Court\, catalysed a decade of struggles over housing and eviction in Johannesburg. \nThe Blinded City chronicles this case\, among others\, and the aftermath – a tumultuous period in the city characterised by recurrent dispossessions\, police and immigration operations\, outbursts of xenophobic violence\, and political and legal change. All through the decade\, there is the backdrop of successive mayors and their attempts to ‘clean up’ the city\, and the struggles of residents and urban housing activists for homes and a better life. The interwoven narratives present a compelling mosaic of life in post-apartheid Johannesburg\, one of the globe’s most infamous and vital cities.
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/book-launch-the-blinded-city-ten-years-in-inner-city-johannesburg-by-dr-matthew-wilhelm-solomon/
CATEGORIES:Book launch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220426
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SUMMARY:The UK-Rwanda Asylum Deal: What does it mean for refugees and the global refugee regime?
DESCRIPTION:This special seminar is being hosted by the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) in London\, the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) in Johannesburg\, and the East African Centre for Forced Migration and Displacement (ACFMD) in Nairobi. \nThe seminar will discuss the recent Asylum Partnership Arrangement signed between the \nUK and Rwanda\, under which certain asylum-seekers can be relocated to Rwanda from the UK for possible permanent settlement. The seminar draws on a range of perspectives from researchers and practitioners engaging with this issue. \nThe event facilitates topical debate about the legality and feasibility of this agreement and the likely impact it will have on affected populations: \n\nWhat does this agreement mean for refugees and asylum seekers?\nWhat does the agreement signal for the global refugee regime at large?\nWhat are the major legal and practical obstacles likely to be encountered?\nWhat are the alternatives to such an approach for the UK?\nWill it have wider ramifications for refugees seeking protection within the EU?\n\nDiscussants include: \n\nAllan Munyao Mukuki\, East African Centre for Forced Migration\nDr Nikolas Feith Tan\, PhD Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights and Aarhus University in international refugee law\nZoe Bantleman\, Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association\n\nLocation: Online \nDate: Thursday 28th April at 2pm (UK time) \nTo register please use this link: https://rli.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26192
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/the-uk-rwanda-asylum-deal-what-does-it-mean-for-refugees-and-the-global-refugee-regime/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220317
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers & Panels: African Queer & Trans Displacements
DESCRIPTION:African Queer & Trans Displacements is a two-day conference bringing together scholars\, policymakers\, practitioners\, advocates and activists working on the forced or voluntary migration of lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, transgender\, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) Africans. The intersection of sexuality\, gender and displacement remains understudied\, especially in Global South contexts\, despite the fact that the vast majority of the world’s queer migrants\, refugees and asylum seekers live in these countries. At the same time\, the social\, legal\, political and economic needs of LGBTQI+ migrants\, refugees and asylum seekers remain overlooked by both queer rights movements and migrant/refugee rights movements\, resulting in inadequate support services and poorly developed policies. This conference aims to foster dialogue across these divides\, while also providing space to engage with migration scholarship centred on Africa and its peoples. \nExisting scholarship tends to elide the cultural\, linguistic and social differences of LGBTQI+ individuals seeking asylum\, homogenising disparate experiences and backgrounds under the broad category of ‘queer asylum seeker’. Countries of birth are largely presented as inconsequential\, or as narrative elements rather than critical considerations. This provides little clarity of the specificities of leaving any one place\, and even less of an understanding about the relationship between places left behind and those where asylum is sought. At the same time\, queer and trans Africans in the diaspora are projecting new identity formations and signifying practices back towards the continent. To this end\, this conference recognises that there is no single story of African queer and trans displacement. Rather\, there are specificities of experience that emerge when migration and asylum interact with different political\, discursive\, ideological and ontological formations linked to gender and sexuality. By curating this conference according to its geographical focus\, rather than emphasising thematic or disciplinary links\, we hope to spotlight the lived realities of migration and diaspora as they relate to queer and trans Africans. \nThis is the first conference to focus specifically on the movements of queer and trans Africans. We invite paper abstracts and panel proposals from scholars working in all disciplines\, as well as from policymakers\, practitioners\, activists and others working in this field. Please send 250-word abstracts or 400-word panel proposals to almresearchnet@gmail.com by the 1 May 2022. \nAfrican Queer & Trans Displacements is hosted by the African Centre for Migration & Society (University of the Witwatersrand) and the Centre of African Studies (University of Edinburgh). The conference will be held in person in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, on 1–2 December 2022 (keynote addresses will be live-streamed). \nNo registration fees will apply\, though delegates are responsible for their own transport and accommodation. Three bursaries covering travel and accommodation are available. If applying for a bursary\, please include a one-page motivation letter along with your abstract. \nEnquiries and abstract submissions should be forwarded to almnresearchnet@gmail.com. \nThis conference is generously supported by the British Academy and  the South African National Research Foundation.[higgs_logo width=”360″ border=”true” brd_padd=”pb-padd-30″ image=”8668″]
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SUMMARY:Applying Behavioral Science in Programming to Address Xenophobia & Promote  Social Cohesion
DESCRIPTION:Background \nGlobally\, as well as in the Southern Africa region\, a recent rise in anti-migrant attitudes\, including an increase in violent acts against migrants\, has drawn increasing attention from political actors as well as civil society. While many initiatives to promote social cohesion have been implemented over the years\, there is a dearth of research or evidence to understand the impact of such activities. Are media campaigns effective? If so\, with which types of audience and what types of messaging have the greatest impact? Can integrating migrants into sports leagues and cultural events help reduce anxiety and promote a more positive image of migrants among the host community? \nRecent advances in brain and behavioral science (BBS) are now providing policymakers and practitioners with new tools to design\, implement and measure more impactful social cohesion and peacebuilding programs to reduce xenophobia and violent conflict\, and promote cooperation across various social divides. \nIn this webinar\, the International Organization for Migration (IOM)\, the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS)\, Prof. Linda Tropp of the University of Massachusetts – Amherst\, and Beyond Conflict (a USbased NGO with over 30 years of experience collaborating with local actors and behavioral scientists in building social cohesion and preventing violence)\, will discuss global examples of initiatives aimed at addressing xenophobia and promoting social cohesion\, introduce new models and approaches to designing and measuring interventions\, and engage with participants on the specific context\, realities\, and initiatives in Southern Africa. \nDate: 9th March 2022  \nVenue:  \nOnline Time: 3:00-5:15pm ( South Africa time)  \nRegister here \n  \nAgenda  \nMarch 9th from 15:00 to 17:15 (SAST) \n15:00-15:10: Introduction to Webinar \n15:10-15:20:  Promoting social cohesion\, migrant integration\, and countering violence in South Africa within the framework of the Migration Multi Partner Trust Fund Programme (MPTF) \n15:20-15:30: Combatting xenophobia and promoting social cohesion in the South African Context (ACMS) \n15:30-15:40: Discussion \n15:40-15:55: Introduction to Brain and Behavioral Science for Social Cohesion – How does science help us think differently about how attitudes and beliefs are formed\, and decisions and actions are made? How does the brain operate in situations of conflict\, xenophobia\, insecurity and prejudice\, and why does that matter for social cohesion programs? \n15:55-16:05: Discussion \n16:05-16:20: Social Contact: Limitations and Opportunities – What is Social Contact Theory and what do we know about whether\, how and under what conditions social contact-based programs produce gains in social cohesion? What do we still need to learn? What innovations are we most excited about trying out? \n16:20-16:30: Discussion \n16:30-16:45: How We Engage: A Methodology for Science-Informed Design – What process do we use to better understand the gaps in a given program’s effectiveness and create tailored solutions to address them? How do we make sure these solutions are cost-effective and influential outside just one specific context? What roles and responsibilities do all parties have in that process? \n16:45-16:55: Discussion \n16:55-17:05: IOM’s Diversity\, Inclusion & Social Cohesion (DISC) Initiative – Global Approach to Addressing Xenophobia and Promoting Inclusion \n17:05-17:15: Conclusions / Wrap Up
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/applying-behavioral-science-in-programming-to-address-xenophobia-promote-social-cohesion/
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SUMMARY:Roundtable & Public Discussion: Rethinking Knowledge Politics in Migration Research\, Teaching & Practice
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand and Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna in partnership with the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and the Anti- Racism Working Group of the IMISCOE International Migration Research Network cordially invite you to a roundtable and public discussion on Rethinking Migration Research\, Teaching and Practice. \nAn ongoing gap in genuine perspectives that are the outcome of robust engagement of scholars and practitioners across the Global North and the Global South runs the risk of reducing decolonisation to a normative and at times arbitrary framework\, silencing certain perspectives and/or side-lining existing work. What does decolonisation have to offer to migration researchers and practitioners that differs or is inimitable from pre-existing notions of reflexivity in the field\, and what\, if any\, are its potential pitfalls? \nCentred on three themes (rethinking the migration research agenda and practice; reflecting on fieldworks and methods; changing the way we teach)\, this roundtable and public discussion aims to engage with the question if decolonisation as an analytical and reflexive tool can provide new or critical knowledge about more productive\, inclusive and transformative approaches\, language and categories of doing migration research\, teaching as well as practice. \nWe will dedicate each theme to one discussion round by short inputs from our three excellent roundtable speakers\, before opening the floor to the audience. \nOur Roundtable Speakers are E. Tendayi Achiume\, Ipek Demir and Aurora Vergara Figueroa. \nTendayi Achiume is the inaugural Alicia Miñana Professor in Law at the University of California\, Los Angeles School of Law. She is also a Research Associate with the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand. The current focus of her work is the global governance of racism and xenophobia; and the legal and ethical implications of colonialism for contemporary international migration. More generally\, her research and teaching interests lie in international human rights law\, international refugee law\, and international migration. Professor Achiume is also the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism\, Racial Discrimination\, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Professor Achiume earned her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Yale Law School. She also earned a Graduate Certificate in Development Studies from Yale. \nIpek Demir is an Associate Professor and the Director of Centre for Racism and Ethnicity\, University of Leeds\, UK. Her research sits at the intersections of the fields of diaspora studies\, ethno-politics\, race and identity\, Global South\, indigeneity\, epistemology and social and critical thought. In her recent work she develops a decolonial perspective to diaspora and discusses how diasporas are the primary agents of decolonization of the Global North. Her forthcoming (January 2022) book with MUP is entitled Diaspora as Translation and Decolonisation. \nAurora Vergara Figueroa is the director of the Afrodiasporic Studies Center (Centro de Estudios Afrodiaspóricos) at Icesi University. Her main research interest is the sociological study of Afrocolombians deracinated from the Colombian Pacific coast and the long durée of land dispossession. Professor Vergara Figueroa also develops research on the Afrodiasporic feminist movement in Colombia. She is the recipient of the 2014 LASA/Oxfam America Martin Diskin Dissertation Award. Vergara Figueroa holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. \nDate: Fri\, December 3\, 2021 \nTime: 7:00 PM – 7:45 PM SAST / 6:00 PM – 6:45 PM CET / 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM EST \nLocation: Online \nRegistration:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rethinking-knowledge-politics-in-migration-research-teaching-practice-tickets-211588546037
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/roundtable-public-discussion-rethinking-knowledge-politics-in-migration-research-teaching-practice/
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SUMMARY:Civil Society Consultative Meeting: Governing for Migrant Inclusion in Post-Election Johannesburg
DESCRIPTION:South Africa’s recent elections mean coalitions local governments and increasingly competitive local politics. An already weakened bureaucracy and a near empty public purse offer few resources to politicians and parties jockeying for position and electoral advantage. To divert attention from their shortcomings\, elected officials are ever more likely to scapegoat immigrants and migrants. Community leaders – elected\, selected\, or self-appointed – will similarly capitalise on xenophobia to their own advantage. Past experience of xenophobic violence across the country tells us this. Past experience tells us this will be deadly\, destructive and further denude our country’s already faltering public institutions.  As a municipality now managed by a coalition government and the city most affected by xenophobic violence\, Johannesburg will not be spared. But what is to be done? \nThere is now need to publicly recognise the acute dangers lying ahead and find ways to navigate a fragmented and perilous political landscape. To this end\, the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) and the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab is organising a civil society consultative meeting to discuss and prepare strategies for engagement with the incoming administration post recent local government elections. A new administration demands new and different forms of engagement. The meeting brings together civil society organisations working with migrants to reflect on the role the city can play in addressing migrants’ exclusion and strategies to engage with the new administration to this effect. \nThis consultative meeting is part of ACMS’ ongoing dialogues on ‘Governing for Urban Inclusion’. The dialogues aim to bring together relevant stakeholders within government\, civil society\, academia and community-based organisations to reconsider modes of interventions\, theories of change\, and stakeholder engagement with regard to addressing current forms of identity-based exclusion in South African cities. \nMeeting date: 30 November 2021 \nTime: 10.00 – 12.00 (SA time) \nVenue:  Online \nRegistration link: REGISTER \nFurther information: info@mobilitygovernancelab.org
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/civil-society-consultative-meeting-governing-for-migrant-inclusion-in-post-election-johannesburg/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Seeking Sanctuary: Stories of Sexuality\, Faith and Migration
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20210922T020000
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SUMMARY:PROTECT Expert Forum: Exploring the Boundaries of International Protection and Human Rights Instruments in South(ern) Africa
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) is running a series of interventions (including public workshops) to unpack the role of international protection and the reality of human rights-based protection claims on the ground in Southern Africa today. Special attention will be given to the influence and impact of both the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and Global Compact for Safe\, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in the current context of Covid-19. \nThese events are part of PROTECT’s Expert Forums series\, all of which seek to explore the legal potential and impacts of the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration. The events are organized by PROTECT’s South Africa-based researchers\, Jo Vearey\, Nicholas Maple\, and Kudakwashe Vanyoro. \nKey topics and issues to be covered in this series: \n• Protection claims of refugees in South Africa\n• The stretching and shrinking of international protection via state and local practices\n• Ground-level approaches to protection for marginalised groups \nThe impact of Covid-19 on: \n• International protection and localised forms and norms of protection\n•State approaches to health security and the international securitisation agenda\n• Regional responses to forced displacement\, crisis and instability \nProgram 22 September \nExploring the Boundaries of International Protection and Human Rights Instruments in South(ern) Africa \nTopics to be covered: \n• South Africa: Asylum and the boundaries of International Protection:\no Access to documentation and the backlog of asylum claims\no The role of the Global Compacts and pledges made by the state and UNHCR\no The role of Zimbabwean Exemption Visa Permits\no Regional (SADC) responses to international protection needs \n• Responses to COVID-19 and Vaccine programmes:\no Asylum-seeker permit renewals during lockdown\no Deportation\, detention; border closures\no Access to COVID-19 relief\no Access to the national Vaccine programme \nSpeakers and program: \nHelidah Refiloe Ogude-Chambert\, a South African-Kenyan national\, is an International Affairs and Development academic and professional with over ten years of experience\, including holding positions in The Presidency\, Government of South Africa\, and currently as a Social Development Specialist at The World Bank in Washington D.C. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in Public and Urban Policy at The New School\, New York City. \nJames Chirwa works at the Legal Advice Team at Messina Legal Advice Office (MLAO). He is also a Research Assistant for the Xenowatch project for the limpopo province \, African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) based at Wits University \nAsmita Parshotam is an international trade and development expert\, and an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa\, having served her legal articles at Bowman Gilfillan Incorporated\, a corporate law firm in Johannesburg. \nKudakwashe Vanyoro is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS)\, University of the Witwatersrand\, in South Africa interested in migration\, temporality\, borders\, humanitarianism and governance in Africa. He is currently working on a book project looking at governing immobilities at the Zimbabwe South Africa border. \nPanel Chair\, Jo Vearey is an Associate Professor and the director of  the African Centre for Migration & Society\, University of the Witwatersrand. Jo works on migration and health in the southern African region and globally. With a background in public health\, her work explores the relationship between migration\, mobility\, and health. \nDate: 22nd September 2021 \nTime: 2.00 – 3.30pm SAST \nRegister for online participation: https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtdemtpzIqE9DGPkRwuS5DWd4G2Otb2uCW
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/protect-expert-forum-exploring-the-boundaries-of-international-protection-and-human-rights-instruments-in-southern-africa/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210922
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SUMMARY:Call to Participate in a Workshop on Rethinking Knowledge Politics in Migration Research\, Teaching & Practice
DESCRIPTION:Recently\, there has been a proliferation of representations of refugees\, asylum seekers and irregular migrants waiting at land\, sea as well as air border crossings headed towards Europe. These groups are often framed in highly emotive language that associates them with threats\, or portrayed as either tragic or miserable\, or as the exemplary citizen. There has also been an increase in emphasis on normative concepts such as ‘safe\, orderly and regular migration’ in contemporary migration debates and policies; over and above already established ones such as ‘integration’. Often\, we also find inherent presumptions that structural disparities between Europe and Africa can be resolved by addressing the root causes of migration and displacement via research and practice without necessarily addressing the causes of oppression. Conversations about African migrants tend to portray Europe as the main host continent for the majority of African migrants in spite of the greater numerical significance of internal and cross-border migration within and across the countries of the global South. All these developments point to the need for ongoing reflection and in particular the need to address northern-centric views in social science and public debate. \nThis call invites abstract submissions to participate in an online workshop as part of the African Academy for Migration Research Virtual Institute on Knowledge Politics and Production. The workshop is hosted by the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand and Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna in partnership with the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and the Anti-Racism Working Group of the IMISCOE International Migration Research Network. The workshop aims to engage with the question\, what can (and should) migration academics and practitioners do to engage in these discussions and debates in a meaningful way? The ‘reflexive turn’ in migration research has engaged with the politics and ethics of knowledge production processes that involve vulnerable groups. While the ‘reflexive turn’ offered a paradigm shift in thinking about these questions by way of epistemological and conceptual reflections\, migration research has now also started to engage more with decolonial perspectives. While decolonisation itself is not a new notion\, it has been largely at the margins of migration research in Europe. We have seen an increasing attempt to focus on decolonising migration research\, especially in the wake of the Black Lives Matter mobilisations. \nThis workshop asks if decolonisation as an analytical and reflexive tool can provide new or critical knowledge about more productive\, inclusive and transformative approaches\, language and categories of doing migration research\, teaching as well as practice. Put differently\, what does decolonisation have to offer to migration researchers and practitioners that differs or is inimitable from pre-existing notions of reflexivity in the field\, and what\, if any\, are its potential pitfalls? While existing works on decolonising migration research have initiated an important debate\, we identify an ongoing gap in genuine perspectives that are the outcome of robust engagement of scholars and practitioners across the Global North and the Global South. This runs the risk of reducing decolonisation to a normative and at times arbitrary framework\, retaining hegemonic characteristics by silencing certain perspectives and/or side-lining existing work. We suggest that decolonisation as a discourse also needs to be questioned and its usefulness and limits as a reflexive tool\, not only for academics but those working in NGOs and practitioner institutions\, and in the framework of exchange among academics and policy makers\, further explored. \nThis workshop is meant to provide a space for this kind of allyship and exchange\, taking stock of existing work\, reading and critiquing each other’s work as well as opening up conversations that are guided by mutual trust\, understanding and support among migration scholars from different world regions\, and from different disciplines. In this workshop\, we would like to ask: \nHow useful and inimitable is the language of decolonisation in varying\, situated contexts of migration research\, teaching and practice? Decolonisation can mean different things for differentially situated actors\, yet there is a risk that it could become highly normative. We are specifically looking for contributions that offer grounded definitions\, meanings and implications of decolonisation by reflecting on experiences found in intersubjective relations\, humanitarian norms\, language and procedures as well as knowledge production and teaching processes. Here\, we are particularly interested in contributions that reveal both the desirable and undesirable consequences of adopting the language of decolonisation in the field and the possibilities of other emancipatory frameworks beyond or alongside this (if any). \nWhat are the institutional barriers to reflexive\, transformative praxis in the world of migration? Those working in migration research\, teaching and practice are constantly grappling with the possible influence of different ethnic\, professional\, racial and gendered positions. Yet\, even for those who would like to acknowledge or assume responsibility for this power relation\, a tendency to avoid debate embedded in institutional norms\, and procedures often constrains reflexive exercises. We are looking for critical\, genuine reflections on: the instances of the reproduction of unequal power relations; the institutional constraints to reflexivity in training and teaching in higher education as well as within NGOs and practitioner institutions; and the limits of using the language of decolonisation in calling for reflexivity within ‘rigged’ institutional contexts. \nWhat practical approaches and tools can be adopted to achieve a genuinely reflexive and transformative field of migration research\, teaching and practice? Concepts and approaches that are currently applied in migration teaching\, research and practice are often either highly normative or policy driven\, which also means they have the potential danger of contributing to the ‘othering’ of migrants. Contributions for this workshop should address how to bring reflexive\, transformative discussions into our work and into our research and spaces of learning in ways that shift power asymmetries; and ways to open up space for debate and emancipation as well as creating trust and an environment of feeling safe to reflect and act on errors instead of fostering distrust\, and adversarial politics. We are also interested in contributions that unpack how we can build a continental African migration research agenda\, in a globally comparative way. We also welcome reflections on teaching migration studies in an online world. \nHow to join? \nSend an e-mail to rethinking@migration.org.za by October 20\, midnight (your time zone) with the following information: \n\nName\nTitle and abstract of proposed contribution (300 words)\nShort bio: university affiliation\, title\, research interests\, time-zone where you are currently based\nWrite in the subject line of the e-mail: Rethinking Migration Workshop\n\nWe will notify those invited to participate on the basis of accepted abstracts by October 30. All papers are due by November 30. We envisage essay length papers (ranging from 3000  to 5000 words) that are a basis for discussion and exchange among the participants. Workshop contributions will go towards the compilation of an edited volume that engages scholarship on knowledge politics in the field of migration. The workshop will be held online to make it as accessible as possible for participants across the globe. \nWorkshop Date: December 3\, 2021 \nDownload the call here: Rethinking Knowledge Politics in Migration Research Teaching Practice _WorkshopCall_September2021
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/call-to-participate-in-a-workshop-on-rethinking-knowledge-politics-in-migration-research-teaching-practice/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20210830T020000
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SUMMARY:PROTECT Expert Forum: Protection Issues and Solutions for LGBTIQ+ People in Contexts of Forced Displacement
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) is running a series of interventions (including public workshops) to unpack the role of international protection and the reality of human rights-based protection claims on the ground in Southern Africa today. Special attention will be given to the influence and impact of both the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and Global Compact for Safe\, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in the current context of Covid-19. \nThese events are part of PROTECT’s Expert Forums series\, all of which seek to explore the legal potential and impacts of the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration. The events are organized by PROTECT’s South Africa-based researchers\, Jo Vearey\, Nicholas Maple\, and Kudakwashe Vanyoro. \nKey topics and issues to be covered in this series: \n• Protection claims of refugees in South Africa\n• The stretching and shrinking of international protection via state and local practices\n• Ground-level approaches to protection for marginalised groups \nThe impact of Covid-19 on: \n• International protection and localised forms and norms of protection\n•State approaches to health security and the international securitisation agenda\n• Regional responses to forced displacement\, crisis and instability \nProgram 15 September \nProtection Issues and Solutions for LGBTIQ+ People in Contexts of Forced Displacement \nTopics to be covered: \n• The role of international human rights instruments on the ground in Southern Africa\n• Refugee Status Determination Process (RSD) for LGBTIQ+ persons in South Africa: 10 years of refugee status denial letters\n• The role of the Global Compacts in relation to the protection needs of LGBTIQ+ persons\n• The impact of COVID-19 on labour\, informality\, access to specific services and forms of relief and protection \nSpeakers and program: \nB Camminga (they/them) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society\, Wits University. Their work considers the interrelationship between the conceptual journeying of the term ‘transgender’ and the physical embodied journeying of transgender asylum seekers from the African continent. In 2018 they were runner up in the Africa Spectrum: Young African Scholars Award\, which honours outstanding research by up-and-coming African scholars. Their first monograph Transgender Refugees & the Imagined South Africa (Palgrave\, 2019) received honourable mention in the Ruth Benedict Prize for Queer Anthropology from the American Anthropology Association and the 2019 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies. They are the co-convenor of the African LGBTQI+ Migration Research Network (ALMN). \nNyasha Zhakata\, popularly known as Masiziva or Masi\, is a lesbian from Zimbabwe and founder of the community-based grassroots organisation Pachedu LGBTQI. Formed as a collective in June 2018 to assist and support LGBTQI refugees and migrants from the African continent living in South Africa. With members from Zimbabwe\, Zambia\, Malawi and Tanzania\, the collective provides mutual aid\, including financial resources\, food and medical and emotional support. Nysha is an Isibindi changemaker\, and in 2020 she won an award for her work with Pachedu. At present\, Pachedu\, with their partners Triangle Project\, Scalabrini\, Passop\, the African LGBTQI+ Migration Research Network (ALMN) and the Fruit Basket\, are working to mitigate the impacts of COVID on its members by providing food\, electricity\, water and covering rental costs. \nTina Dixson is a PhD Candidate at The Australian National University researching the construction of narratives on queer women’s displacement and violence. Tina has previously co-founded the first Australian LGBTIQ+ refugee-led organization Forcibly Displaced People Network. She works in social policy on issues of LGBTIQ+ inclusion\, women’s safety and refugee rights. \nPanel Chair \nSally Gandar is a Head of Advocacy & Legal Advisor at The Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town. Perceiving migration as an opportunity\, the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town is committed to alleviating poverty and promoting development in the Western Cape while fostering integration between migrants\, refugees and South Africans. In providing assistance\, they advocate respect for human rights and use a holistic approach that considers all basic needs. \nDate: Wednesday 15 September \nTime: 2.00 – 3.30pm SAST \nRegistration: https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElcumvpzMrGdL-yIwgRBSMDkW7sRTCO-nB
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/protect-expert-forum-protection-issues-and-solutions-for-lgbtiq-people-in-contexts-of-forced-displacement/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20210720T090000
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Boundaries of Protection and Human Rights for International Migrants in South Africa: A Facilitated Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Invited Panel at the 1st Migration & Urbanisation Conference organised by the South African National Department of Social Development and Statistics South Africa \nAbout the conference: \nMigration and urbanisation have been described as major issues impacting on the world’s economic\, political and social landscape. Migration has emerged as a dominant theme in global political discourse and international relations. Similarly\, patterns of internal migration and urbanisation have significant implications on origin and destination areas within countries. Thus migration is an area of significant focus in policymaking and administration at all levels of governance. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes for the first time the contribution of migration to sustainable development. Migration is a crosscutting issue\, relevant to all of the Sustainable Development Goals. Eleven out of seventeen goals contain targets and indicators that are relevant to migration or mobility. The Agenda’s core principle to “leave no one behind”\, including migrants\, requires data disaggregation by migratory status\, opening up significant migration data needs but also the opportunity to improve migration data. \nPanel discussion \nThis facilitated panel conversation will bring together the perspectives of academics\, government\, and international organizations working in the field of international protection. Inputs will consider the applicability of the current global refugee regime – as enshrined in the 1951 Refugee Convention – in the South African context. This will include consideration of the experiences of marginalised asylum seekers\, refugees\, and forced migrants\, current policy developments associated with the management of international migration in relation to refugee protection\, and the relationship between international organisations and the state. \nFacilitator: Prof Jo Vearey (African Centre for Migration & Society\, Wits University) \nPanelists: \nSarah-Jane Savage (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – UNHCR) \nDepartment of Home Affairs (TBC) \nDr Nicholas Maple (African Centre for Migration & Society\, Wits University) \nDr B Camminga (African Centre for Migration & Society\, Wits University) \nThe panel is part of “PROTECT The Right to International Protection. A Pendulum between Globalization and Nativization?” \nPROTECT is an EU funded research project which studies the impact of the UN’s Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration on refugees’ right to international protection. The vision of PROTECT is to discover ways of advancing the international protection system within today’s turbulent political context. We consist of 11 partner universities in Europe\, Canada\, and South Africa. More information can be found on the project website: https://protectproject.w.uib.no/ \nDate: Wednesday 28 July \nTime: 09H00 – 10H00 \nFree registration: https://migration.statssa.gov.za/index.php/registration/
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/exploring-the-boundaries-of-protection-and-human-rights-for-international-migrants-in-south-africa-a-facilitated-conversation/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210614
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210615
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SUMMARY:PROTECT Midterm Conference
DESCRIPTION:At PROTECT’s virtual conference on 26 – 27 August\, we will present our midterm findings and discuss their policy relevance. On day one (26 August)\, our researchers will give bite-sized presentations of our Work Package findings\, which are all dedicated to studying the impacts of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) in different manners. The conference will feature a keynote address by Professor James C. Hathaway\, University of Michigan Law School \nDay two (27 August) is dedicated to two plenary panels; a Policy Forum and an Academic Forum. While the Policy Forum gathers significant national and international actors involved in the global governance of international protection\, the Academic Forum is specially devised to communicate with top scholars in the field in order to have their evaluations of the quality and validity of our research results. On both days we invite guests to ask questions and participate in our online facilitated discussion spaces. Full video talks where we present our findings in detail will be sent out to all attendees in advance. Access the short programme here. \nRegister here for virtual participation
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/protect-midterm-conference/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210303
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210304
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SUMMARY:Healthcare in transit: Quantifying the health needs of migrants across the Limpopo
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in late 2019\, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in partnership with the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS)\, conducted over 1\,375 detailed interviews with migrants and asylum-seekers across Beitbridge and Musina\, documenting the health challenges they faced. Participants included: \n\nZimbabwean deportees coming through Beitbridge Reception\,\nmigrants and asylum seekers of several nationalities staying in Musina\,\nMalawians using Beitbridge as a waiting area\,\nthe cross-border population living in rural Beitbridge\, and\ndifferent groups heading to South Africa via Beitbridge crossing points.\n\nThe results of that survey show that the significant waiting period for asylum-seeker application outcomes often exacerbates health challenges that migrants experience. While the report does not point to an acute health crisis at the border\, it outlines the risks of the current process\, which often requires migrants and asylum-seekers to travel from the rest of the country to Musina\, as their office of first application\, in order to renew their permits. \nMany of those whose papers expire before they are able to renew them must endure inhumane and often illegal conditions of arrest and detention prior to deportation\, heightening the risks of contagion during the COVID-19 pandemic. \nImplications of the report – beyond addressing medical needs – extend to the need for a more considered approach to migration policy\, one that acknowledges the reality of migration while promoting wider public health imperatives. MSF and ACMS\, in collaboration with the Migration & Coronavirus in Southern Africa Coordination Group (MiCoSA)\, will be hosting a discussion on the project findings and their implications\, including what this may mean in the context of Covid-19. Discussants include: \n\nVinayak Bhardwaj\, Regional Migration Referent – Southern Africa\, Doctors Without Borders (MSF)\nFaith Ngari\, Future Families\, Musina\nDostin Lakika (PhD)\, field researcher & ACMS graduate\nAurelie Ponthieu\, International Migration Coordinator\, Doctors Without Borders (MSF)\, Brussels\n\nFacilitator: Jo Vearey\, ACMS\, Wits \nDate: Wednesday 17th March \nTime: 1 – 2.30pm SAST \nRegistration Link: https://wits za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpcOGrrTojGNSYGZtW2d7ct6CwU81b8rgO[higgs_space space=”pb-marg-b-45″][higgs_logos logos=”%5B%7B%22image%22%3A%228433%22%7D%5D”]
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/healthcare-in-transit-quantifying-the-health-needs-of-migrants-across-the-limpopo/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20201126T013000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20201126T151500
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SUMMARY:International protection and the Global Compacts in the time of Covid-19: lessons and challenges from South(ern) Africa
DESCRIPTION:This Expert Forum has been convened to take stock of the role of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and the Global Compact for Safe\, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in South(ern) Africa\, two years after their adoption. It will examine the extent to which the GCR and GCM are influencing the implementation of South Africa’s legal and institutional frameworks surrounding refugee and migrant protection in cities such as Johannesburg and Cape Town. \nThe Forum will also explore the unique challenges the global COVID-19 pandemic has created in terms of implementation of the two Compacts at the city\, national\, and regional levels. Equally\, looking forward\, the Forum will ask if the pandemic may offer some opportunities to utilize the Compacts further to improve international protection structures for refugees and migrants. For example\, by developing more inclusive ‘whole of society’ approaches to healthcare systems at the local and municipality level. \nThe Forum is part of “PROTECT The Right to International Protection. A Pendulum between Globalization and Nativization?” \nPROTECT is an EU funded research project which studies the impact of the UN’s Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration on refugees’ right to international protection. The vision of PROTECT is to discover ways of advancing the international protection system within today’s turbulent political context. We consist of 11 partner universities in Europe\, Canada\, and South Africa. More information can be found on the project website: https://protectproject.w.uib.no/ \nDate: 26th November 2020 \nTime: 1.30 – 3.15pm SAST \nRegistration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jjgagIGfQ1yvDqYR_MNlIQ \nFor further information: jo.vearey@wits.ac.za \nFull programme: \n[gview file="https://migration.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ExpertForum_26Nov2020.pdf%22] \nThe PROTECT project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 870761. The content of this event does not reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Responsibility for the information and views expressed therein lies entirely with the organizers.
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/international-protection-and-the-global-compacts-in-the-time-of-covid-19-lessons-and-challenges-from-southern-africa/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201113
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SUMMARY:The Two UN Compacts – Refugees and Migrants: Challenges and Implementation in Europe
DESCRIPTION:When: Friday\, November 13\, 2020 (05:00 PM GMT / 06:00 PM CET/ 07:00 PM SAST) – Saturday\, November 14\, 2020\, (09:00 AM GMT / 10:00 AM CET/ 11:00 AM SAST)\nWhere: Online\, \nThe PROTECT Expert Forum 2020 will discuss ‘The Two UN Compacts – Refugees and Migrants: Challenges and Implementation in Europe’. The event is hosted by Professor Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary University of London) and Professor Sandra Lavenex (University of Geneva). \nThis Expert Forum\, organised as part of the PROTECT project\, engages with the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migrants from the perspective of their added value to existing international norms which also cover migrants. We hypothesise that there is added value from these instruments in providing a reinforced commitment to existing human rights standards\, bringing migration firmly within the scope of other UN instruments. \nAbout the Expert Forum \nAgainst this background\, the Expert Panel (13th November 2020) brings together legal scholars\, migration experts\, and representatives from organisations such as UNHCR\, ECRE\, and EASO\, to explore contemporary issues faced in the Mediterranean region in light of the EU states’ commitments to the two UN Compacts and the role and policy of EU institutions. The panellists include Professor Hakan Gurcan Sicakkan (PI\, PROTECT – Horizon 2020)\, Dr Madeline Garlick (UNHCR)\, Catherine Wollard (ECRE)\, and Alexander Sorel (EASO). \nAn additional two panels (14th November 2020) will engage with the added value which the two Compacts can bring to the lives of refugees and migrants. Prof Sandra Lavenex (University of Geneva)\, Prof Jens Vedsted-Hansen (University of Aarhus)\, Dr Ryzsard Cholewinski (ILO Beirut)\, Dr Bjarney Fridriksdottir (University of Deusto\, Spain) & Prof Elspeth Guild (QMUL) will examine refugee and migrant protection from the perspective of social and economic rights. Prof Jürgen Bast (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen)\, Prof Carolina Hernandez (OHCHR)\, Adriano Silvestri (EU FRA)\, Mats Lindberg\, (ECRI) and Drahoslav Štefánek (Special Representative of the Council of Europe’s Secretary-General on Migration & Refugees) will then engage with the application of human rights and non-discrimination of refugees and migrants in specific contexts\, including asylum applications\, non-refoulement obligations and detention. \nA detailed programme is available. All are welcome to attend. Since places are limited\, registrations will be taken on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nParticipation \nPlease join using the links below: \n\n13 November 2020\, 17.00-19.00 GMT: Borders and Refugees – Contemporary Challenges.\nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83433334770?pwd=NjBRVkNra1VEbFU0WGRyS0U3WFJPUT09 \nMeeting ID: 834 3333 4770 | Passcode: 979428 \n\n14 November 2020\, 09.00-12.30 GMT: Opportunity or Threat: Receiving Refugees and Migrants in Europe and the Effects of the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migrants.\nJoin Zoom Meeting https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84243893574?pwd=K3hQTm5xZE9hT3Y2VmhLSUoxRGJGQT09 \nMeeting ID: 842 4389 3574 | Passcode: 823522
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/the-two-un-compacts-refugees-and-migrants-challenges-and-implementation-in-europe/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201017
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SUMMARY:Workshop Invitation: Getting the Future Write: Early Career Publishing Series
DESCRIPTION:‘the world continues to be divided between those who are heard and those who are not\, those who get to print and those limited to reading the ideas of others’[i] \nPublishing and academic writing are important facets of any academic career and yet they are rarely part of the curriculum or openly discussed. The aim of this workshop series is to create an interdisciplinary space for junior scholars to (a) build a personal publication strategy and (b) develop a peer support network for academic writing and publishing. The workshop is aimed primarily at humanities and social science scholars on the African continent or of African descent. \nOur three-part series will be held on Zoom. Each two-hour workshop will cover a different theme: \nOctober: Developing a publication strategy: how\, where and why to write? \nNovember: Publishing articles from your PhD \nNovember: Turning your PhD into a book \nEach workshop will feature presentations from early career scholars who have experience of publishing\, as well as input from publishers. At the end of each day\, participants will have time to develop and discuss their publication strategy as it evolves. \nThose interested in participating should fill in this form https://forms.gle/kHcKhcmTERdewU1M9 by 23 October 2020. \n[i] Amina Mama\, ‘Why We Must Write: Personal Reflections on Linking the Alchemy of Science with the Relevance of Activism’\, Agenda 16\, no. 46 (2000): 13–20.
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/workshop-invitation-getting-the-future-write-early-career-publishing-series/
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SUMMARY:Building Solidarity in the time of COVID-19 Webinar Series: Access to Health Care - A Regional Approach
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to participate in the first of five webinar series under the theme: Building Solidarity in the time of COVID-19. This weeks discussion will be on: Access to Health Care- a regional approach: Mobility\, inclusivity\,sustainable health systems and the control and eradication of communicable disease (HIV/AIDS\, TB and COVID-19).  \n\n\n \nThe panellists for this week are Sibongile Tshabalala\, Eric Goemaere and Jo Vearey. \n\n\n \nDate: 17 July 2020 \n\n\n \nTime: 9:00-11:00 \n\n\n \nRSVP Email: bea@totem-media.net to receive the zoom link \n\n\n \nPlease find attached the poster invitation\, framing document and info-graphic giving background to the webinar discussion and panellists.If you have questions or comments you would like to make in preparation or during the webinar please post them in the comments section of the zoom meeting to be engaged by panellists. \n\n\n \nWe look forward to your attendance.
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/building-solidarity-in-the-time-of-covid-19-webinar-series-access-to-health-care-a-regional-approach/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200716T160000
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SUMMARY:Public Positions: The Politics of the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:WiSER and the African Centre for Migration & Society warmly invite you to the next Public Positions session The Politics of the Pandemic by Professor Simukai Chigudu (St Antony’s College\, Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford). \nEvery epidemic is always a public health crisis – and more. In the global South in particular\, epidemics are always shaped and reshaped by prior “existing conditions”\, as many commentators have been pointing out: political\, economic\, institutional or cultural.  As a result\, the life of an epidemic is always multi-perspectival. In turn\, pathways of disease response can never be linear. The challenges of dealing with epidemics and diseases which involve highly dynamic viral-social-political and ecological determinants are always particularly complex. In this PUBLIC POSITIONS Session\, Professor Chigudu will discuss several of the key arguments in his book The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera\, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe and thereafter offer remarks on the COVID-19 pandemic. He will during the course of the discussion highlight some of the most important themes that mark the politics of epidemics in Africa and globally\, from the historical origins of various pandemics to the social patterns of their unfolding and impact; and from the competing interpretations of social experiences of the pandemics to their implications for global politics. \nSimukai Chigudu is Associate Professor of African Politics & Fellow of St Antony’s College\, Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford. \nDate: Thursday\, 16 July 2020\nTime: 4pm (SA Time)\nRegister in advance for this webinar:  https://wits-za.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g2PETmocR9uyr8q47QlTZw
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/public-positions-the-politics-of-the-pandemic/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200612T090000
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SUMMARY:Alternatives to Detention: Advocacy\, Challenges\, and Opportunities in Southern Africa
DESCRIPTION:The detention system within Southern Africa has long been riddled with gaping wounds. To this end\, the rise in the use of immigration detention as a migration management tool has unfortunately been accompanied by an accelerated deprivation of basic human rights. In the case of South Africa\, this has particularly taken the form of zeroing in on migrants\, asylum-seekers and refugees with widespread disregard of legal protections or various court orders in place aimed at securing their rights. Straying away from utilitarian and retributive theories of justice\, detention has ultimately become a pretext for perpetuating and preserving long-held inequalities in society. \nIn light of Covid-19\, Lawyers for Human Rights (“LHR”) seeks to strengthen regional collaboration with its African neighbours in order to promote the use of ATDs by highlighting the disproportionate impact of the criminalisation of the Disaster Management Regulations (GN 43107 GG 657) of 18 March 2020 (“Lockdown Regulations”) as amended by law enforcement on migrants. The event seeks to bring together legal experts\, African partners\, and civil society in order to share perspectives and strategies. \nBackground \nIn the wake of Covid-19\, rigid lockdown orders have heightened overarching concerns surrounding the use of immigration detention as a tool to further target\, attack\, and criminalise non-nationals in South Africa. In particular\, the designation of immigration officers as enforcement officers of South Africa’s Lockdown regulations has revealed the lack of provision for effective law enforcement accountability mechanisms which has inevitably resulted in an abuse of power and rendered migrants more susceptible to unlawful arrests. Moreover\, the Department of Home Affairs (“DHA”) has designated additional correctional facilities as places of detention specifically geared toward undocumented migrants. These centres have been permeated with blatantly inhumane conditions that are unsanitary\, overcrowded\, and overwhelmingly lack access to basic hygiene\, food and water—placing migrants and asylum seekers acutely at risk of contracting the deadly virus. Although the findings are alarming\, immigration detention and the subsequent deprivation of rights which detainees endure are not unique instances in the region. Accordingly\, these are the grounds which have necessitated the normalisation of and advocacy for ATDs\, especially during a time of dire public health concerns. In paralleling data-driven medical and health recommendations with sociopolitical justifications\, ATD has the potential to ignite a solidified rights- based framework to decongest prisons and replace them with community-based settings\, while also embracing the dignity of migrants\, asylum-seekers\, and refugees. \nObjectives \n1. Gather data and empirical research on the challenges and concerns among IDC members and peers of promoting ATD advocacy\, as well as take stock of the successful and ineffective strategies to augment involvement;\n2. Reflect on how ATD can reduce the criminalisation of migrants\, and its compatibility with policy and legislative efforts; \n3. Chronicle regional developments so as to promote interstate networks\, crosscutting collaboration\, and community-building in Southern Africa; \n4. Analyse how the onset of Covid-19 has heightened or stymied ATD as a priority in addressing immigration detention;\n5. Promote exchange among IDC partners on the differences and similarities in detention conditions and ATD approaches in their respective countries. \nDate: 12 June 2020 \nTime: 09H00 – 12H00 SAST \nOrganisers: Lawyers for Human Rights and the International Detention Coalition \nTo join this webinar\, please RSVP to Charne@lhr.org.za who will provide you with the link to join using the Zoom platform. \n[gview file="https://migration.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Alternatives-to-Detention-Advocacy-Challenges-and-Opportunities-in-Southern-Africa-Webinar-Programme.pdf%22]
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/alternatives-to-detention-advocacy-challenges-and-opportunities-in-southern-africa/
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SUMMARY:Migration to South Africa – Perspectives from Civil Society and Current Challenges in Times of COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:In times of crisis like the current one\, inequality and injustice are magnified. Combined efforts are crucial to support vulnerable people in continuing to secure their livelihoods and access essential services. Especially when taking into account the situation of people on the move (migrants\, refugees\, asylum seekers\, paperless people) the circumstances in South Africa have not turned to the better. Their struggle to make a living in a country with one of the most progressive constitutions gets more severe by the day. \nA newly published study by the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg/South Africa and Bread for the World outlines the manifold challenges and circumstances for people on the move in South Africa and shows different aspects of the work of civil society actors with them. The study also reflects on several parallels to the German situation while pointing out some important differences. \nDuring the upcoming Webinar\, key points and conclusions of the study will be presented by the authors\, Iriann Freemantle and Rebecca Walker. Four Bread for the World Partner Organisations based in South Africa will then share their perspectives on the study and will make strong links to current challenges in their work with people on the move due to the COVID-19 situation. Afterwards there will be the opportunity for the audience to contribute with questions and comments from South African and German perspectives. \nDetails of the Webinar: \nPlease send an email latest by Wednesday\, 17th June 2020 to Rejane.CanedodeOliveiraHoppe@brot-fuer-die-welt.de to receive the Zoom Login Information. \nDate:\n19th June 2020\, 10 – ca. 12:30am \nLanguage:\nThe Webinar will be held in English. \nAgenda\n10:00-10:10    Official Welcome and introduction by Bread for the World\n10:10-10:30    Presentation of key results and highlights of the study by the authors\n10:30-11:30    Inputs by Bread for the World Partner Organisations\n–       Legal Resource Centre (LRC)\n–       Africa Unite\n–       Women on Farms Project (WFP)\n–       Lutheran Community Outreach Foundation (LCOF)\n11:30-12:20    Moderated discussion and exchange with audience and participants\n12:20-12:30    Wrap-Up and End of the Webinar
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/migration-to-south-africa-perspectives-from-civil-society-and-current-challenges-in-times-of-covid-19/
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SUMMARY:Old and New African Diaspora Networks: Before and After COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:This virtual conference will bring together scholars and intellectuals from the African diaspora\, and/or those engaged in African diaspora research and engagement. It will offer perspectives on old and new diaspora from various theoretical\, conceptual and disciplinary perspectives. The aim is to generate new knowledge that can inform not only scholarship but also work in the policy/government\, civil society and business spheres as the world grapples with new and legacy challenges. \nThe conference will serve as a launch for an upcoming webinar series that will continue to explore issues that have affected old and new African diasporas from interdisciplinary\, trans disciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives. Further information on the technical modalities to be used will be communicated closer to the date of the conference. \nDate: 21 May 2020 \nTime: 1:00PM-7:00PM JHB / 7:00AM-1:00PM MI \nTo participate\, register for free here.
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/old-and-new-african-diaspora-networks-before-and-after-covid-19/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200223
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SUMMARY:Present and imminent: Crises and complexity in Mexico and South Africa
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Prof Lenore Manderson\, the roundtable Present and Imminent: Crises and Complexity in Mexico and South Africa will focus on contemporary and emerging crises in the two countries. Both Mexico and South Africa face multiple ecological and economic problems\, as reflected by biodiversity loss\, water\, food and energy crises\, the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases\, and new infections including COVID-19. Pressures from continued urbanisation\, migration\, and unemployment\, partly due to such challenges\, contribute to local anxiety\, violence and systemic inequality. In this panel\, we use this mix of problems as portals to examine the interrelationship of physical\, social and biological worlds\, as studied by members of the two universities. We will focus on the twin challenges in urban Mexico and South Africa of climate change and migration\, both of which present escalating challenges of scope and intensity. We will explore the bidirectional relationships of different crises\, and will reflect on the challenges for improved governance and in implementing policies and programs. We will conclude by considering how these problems are common in LMIC\, and the role of G-24 countries like Mexico and South Africa in addressing these questions\, and in responding to them as a model of new global leadership. \nROUNDTABLE CONVENER \nLenore Manderson AM is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology in the School of Public Health\, University of the Witwatersrand\, and an NRF A-rated scholar. She holds appointments also with Brown University\, US\, and Monash University\, Australia. Known internationally for her work on inequality and the social context of infectious and chronic diseases in Australia\, Southeast and East Asia\, and Africa\, she has published over 700 books\, articles\, book chapters and reports\, including Sickness and the State (1996)\, Surface Tensions: Surgery\, Bodily Boundaries and the Social Self (2011)\, Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology (2016\, with Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon)\, Connected Lives: Families\, Households\, Health and Care in South Africa (2020\, with Nolwazi Mkhwanazi)\, and Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19 (in press\, with Nancy J. Burke and Ayo Wahlberg). She chairs the External Review Group of the Social Innovations in Health Initiative of TDR (2015-) and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). She was awarded the Society of Medical Anthropology Career Achievement Award in 2016\, and in January 2020 was admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia. \nROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS MEXICO – UNAM \nCristina Oehmichen Bazán \nInstitute of Anthropological Research\, National Autonomous University of Mexico\, Mexico \nCristina Oehmichen holds a PhD in Anthropology from UNAM. Cristina is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Anthropological Research\, and a professor of the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology and the Degree in Anthropology at the same institution. She is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers\, level II\, and of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She has received three national awards (1986\, 1998 and 2001) by the National Institute of Anthropology and History. In 2005\, the Canadian Government\, through the International Council for Canadian Studies\, awarded her the Award for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Cristina has published chapters in books\, books\, and articles in specialized journals. Since 2016\, she is editor of the journal Antropología Americana of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History. She is currently working on “Mobilities\, inequalities and inter-ethnic relations” and on themes of “Anthropology of Tourism.” \nPaola Velasco Santos \nInstitute of Anthropological Research\, National Autonomous University of Mexico\, Mexico \nPaola Velasco Santos is a social anthropologist with PhD in anthropology from UNAM\, and a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers\, Level I. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental anthropology\, political ecology\, anthropological theory\, and methodology. Paola is the author of the book “Ríos de contradicción. Contaminación\, ecología política y sujetos rurales en Nativitas\, Tlaxcala (2017-IIA).” In 2018\, she was awarded the Fray Bernardino de Sahagún Prize for Best Anthropology Research Book by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Since 2009\, she works on projects related to river pollution\, water overexploitation\, local denim manufacturing\, historical conditions of precarity and health problems in Central Mexico. She is also working on a project concerned with a hydro-political cycle and the impact on the socionatural relations and reconfigurations\, heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. \nSOUTH AFRICA – WITS \nJo Vearey \nAfrican Centre for Migration & Society\, University of the Witwatersrand\, South Africa \nJo Vearey has a background in public health and her interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersections between migration and health. She is an Associate Professor and Director of the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at Wits University in Johannesburg where she coordinates the Migration and Health Project Southern Africa (maHp). Jo also directs the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence in Migration and Mobility – hosted by the ACMS – and is vice-chair of the Global Migration\, Health\, and Development Research Initiative (MHADRI). With a commitment to social justice\, Jo’s research explores ways to generate and communicate knowledge to improve responses to migration\, health and wellbeing in the southern African region. Fundamental to her research practice is participation in policy processes at international and local levels. This includes exploring approaches to address epistemic injustice in the development of appropriate policy responses. \nKhangelani Moyo \nGlobal Change Institute\, University of the Witwatersrand\, South Africa \nKhangelani Moyo is an Associate Researcher at the Global Change Institute (GCI)\, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He has academic training in migration studies\, urban studies\, sociology and social anthropology. He completed his PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2017\, focusing on migrant mobilities in urban spaces and how their spatial identities are negotiated in the City of Johannesburg. His research interests include migration management\, refugee governance\, migrant transnationalism\, spatial identity in the city\, and social vulnerabilities in the urban periphery. He is also an associate at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute in Freiburg\, where he collaborates on a research project on the political stakes of refugee governance in Africa. \nDate: Tuesday\, February 23\, 2020 \nTime: 9 am (Mexico City) 5 pm (Johannesburg) 2 am Wednesday 24 (Melbourne) \nDuration: 1 hr. 30 minutes \nThe event will be broadcast on UNAM-South Africa’s Facebook \nZoom meeting: \nhttps://cuaed-unam.zoom.us/j/9760026984?pwd=VkFoM2V4SWJDMGx2QnV4RlRoM0dvQT09 \nMeeting ID: 976 002 6984 \nProgramme: Present and Imminent: Crises and Complexity in Mexico and South Africa
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/present-and-imminent-crises-and-complexity-in-mexico-and-south-africa/
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SUMMARY:Black Markets: Transatlantic Architectures of Care
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Black markets: Transatlantic architectures of care by Huda Tayob (History & Theory Programme Convener\, Graduate School of Architecture\, University of Johannesburg). \nSouth Africa has hosted a large number of refugees and asylum seekers since the end of apartheid in the early 1990s. In Cape Town\, this led to a burgeoning of pan-African mixed-use markets\, known as “Somali malls.” These arcades have been constituted of multiple small shops\, along with educational\, religious\, and social spaces\, which primarily cater to Somalis and other East Africans. The majority of the stores within these markets have been owned and run by women. This ethnographic research and study of oral histories has shown that these seemingly local establishments have been elements in a wider global network of markets. These buildings have occupied urban margins\, but performed the circulation of transnational spatial stories\, spatial practices\, people\, and goods. This seminar traces the emergence and relationship between such markets in Cape Town\, Minneapolis\, and Nairobi\, from the 1980s to the present. Huda Tayob argue that these markets produce spatial intimacy within contested realms\, as well as networks of support and possibility within displacement contexts. They are entangled at multiple scales\, at the level of individual stores and that of the market complex. Understanding Somali malls as transcontinental “black markets\,” with reference to AbdouMaliq Simone’s “black urbanisms\,” draws out the local specificities of racialized urbanisms and locates these spaces within a broader landscape of forced migration\, informal global trade and transnational networks of care established and maintained by female labour\, thinking of “care” critically\, with Miriam Ticktin. This talk is based on ethnographic research and oral histories around the establishment of these markets undertaken between 2014 – 2017 in Cape Town\, 2018 in Nairobi\, and 2015 and 2018 in Minneapolis—in the latter\, supplementing research with a study of oral histories held in the Immigration History Research Centre Archives (University of Minnesota). It further traces the history of these ordinary and uncelebrated sites in local newspaper archives\, noting responses to their emergence by publics and city governments\, and draws on municipal records and planning documents where available to examine the processes of socioeconomic formalization\, which have rendered these markets “informal” and therefore precarious\, racialized spaces. \nBiography \nHuda Tayob is History & Theory Programme Convener at the Graduate School of Architecture\, University of Johannesburg. She received a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Cape Town and subsequently worked in architectural practice prior to completing a PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture\, UCL in 2018. Her doctoral research looked at the spatial practices of African migrants\, immigrants\, refugees and asylum seekers in Cape Town\, with a particular focus on mixed-use markets established and run by these populations. She received a Commendation from the RIBA President’s Medal Research Award committee for her PhD. Her wider academic interests include a focus on minor and subaltern architectures\, the politics of invisibility in space\, and the potential of literature to respond to archival silences in architectural research. Her recent publications include “Subaltern Architectures: Can Drawing ‘tell’ a Different Story” (Architecture and Culture\, 2018) and “Architecture-by-migrants: The Porous Infrastructures of Bellville” (Anthropology Southern Africa\, 2019). \nDate: Tuesday 8 October 2019 \nTime: 12.45 -13.45 \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/black-markets-transatlantic-architectures-of-care/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:No Asylum for 'Infiltrators': Israel's Dysfunctional Asylum System
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled No asylum for ‘infiltrators’: Israel’s dysfunctional asylum system by Ruvi Ziegler (Associate Professor in International Refugee Law\, University of Reading\, School of Law). \nThis talk explores the precarious status of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers in Israel. Having crossed the Israeli-Egyptian border without authorisation and not through an official border crossing\, Israeli law defines such individuals as ‘infiltrators’\, a charged term which dates back to border-crossings into Israel by Palestinian Fedayeen in the 1950s. Eritreans and Sudanese nationals constitute over 90 percent of ‘infiltrators’ in Israel. Their livelihood is curtailed through a hostile political discourse\, financial sanctions\, and detention. While Israel refrains from deporting them to their respective countries of origin\, recognising that such forced removal could expose them to risks to their lives and/or freedom\, it refrains from granting them protection status\, seeking instead to reach ‘third country’ agreement with sub-Saharan African states. The talk argues that the regularisation of asylum in Israel\, including legal recognition of ‘refugee’\, ‘asylum seeker’ and subsidiary or complementary protraction statuses\, is long due. \nBiography \nDr. Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler is Associate Professor in International Refugee Law at the University of Reading\, School of Law\, where he is the Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes.  Ruvi is an Associate Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple; Research Associate of the Refuge Studies Centre\, University of Oxford; Co-convenor of the Migration and Asylum Section of the Society of Legal Scholars; Senior Research Associate of the Refugee Law Initiative (Institute for Advance Legal Study\, University of London) and Editor-in-Chief of its Working Paper Series; and a Researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute\, analysing the treatment of asylum seekers in Israel as part of the ‘Democratic Principles’ project. \nRuvi’s public engagements include serving as Chair of the Board of Trustees of New Europeans Association UK; Chair of the Oxford European Association; A Britain in Europe academic expert; and an advisory council member of Rene Cassin. \nPreviously\, Ruvi was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School’s Immigration and Refugee Clinic and with the Human Rights Program; and a Tutor in Public International Law at Oxford. \nRuvi’s recently published book is Voting Rights of Refugees (Cambridge University Press\, 2017). Ruvi’s areas of research interest include International Refugee Law\, Electoral Rights and citizenship\, Comparative Constitutional Law\, and International Humanitarian Law. \nRuvi holds DPhil\, MPhil\, and BCL degrees from the University of Oxford; LL.M. with specialisation in Public Law from Hebrew University; and a joint LLB and BA from the University of Haifa. He was called to the Israeli bar in 2003. \nFor more information and a list of publications: www.reading.ac.uk/law/about/staff/r-ziegler.aspx \nDate: Tuesday 17 September 2019 \nTime: 12.45 -13.45 \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/no-asylum-for-infiltrators-israels-dysfunctional-asylum-system/
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 edge economies of migration
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a special public lecture titled The edge economies of migration by Professor Suzanne Hall (London School of Economics and Political Science). \n‘Edge Economies’ emerge in the asymmetries of global migration and the ongoing ferocities of urban marginalisation. From the grounded perspective of street economies formed in the peripheries of post-industrial UK cities\, in this special public lecture Suzzane explores the racialised frameworks of citizenship and economic inequality and their everyday contestations. She locates the global and urban formations of the edge in the European ideologies of displacement and immobility\, incorporating the extended coloniality of political interventionism and human subordination. By moving between spaces of globe\, state and street\, she further explores the edge as a capricious space in which social sorting\, cultural intermixtures and claims to difference are forged. Such combinations encourage connections between the histories and geographies of how people and places become bordered\, together with practices of edge economies that are both marginal and transgressive. \n  \nSuzanne Hall is is Co-director of the Cities Programme and Associate Professor in Sociology at the LSE. Suzi’s research interests engage with the street life of brutal borders\, migrant economies and urban multi-culture. \nDate: Thursday 12 September 2019 \nTime: 13.00 -14.30 \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-edge-economies-of-migration/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Migrant’s remittances and living conditions of households of origin: Evidence from Kinshasa
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Migrant’s remittances and living conditions of households of origin: Evidence from Kinshasa by José Mangalu Mobhe Agbada (Département des Sciences de la Population et du Développement\, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion\, Université de Kinshasa). \nThe aim of this seminar is to study the involvement of households of origin in the migratory process of their members as well as the participation of migrants in the economic survival of their households of origin. The main hypotheses assume a very close link between supports provided to migrants by their households of origin and migrants’ remittance behaviour. Similarly\, households receiving remittances are expected to enjoy better living conditions than those who do not. The data used come from the MAFE-RDC survey\, conducted in Kinshasa in July/August 2007 as part of the project “Crise économique et migrations internationales en RDC ». Ce projet s’inscrivait dans le programme de recherche international dénommé FSP-74 « Migrations internationales\, recompositions territoriales et développement dans les pays du Sud »\,“\, financed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs through CEPED. A stratified and representative sample of 945 households was drawn. The data were analyzed using binomial logistic regression\, ordinal regression. The results indicate that the majority of migrants received assistance from their household of origin at the beginning of the migration. These supports provided by households largely determined the migrants’ remittances behaviour and the probability of households to receive remittances from their migrants. The most assisted migrants were also more likely to remit. Finally\, households receiving remittances are more likely to enjoy better living conditions than others\, especially those with at least one migrant residing outside Africa. \nBiography \nJosé Mangalu Mobhe Agbada is Demographer. He got his Ph.D. degree from Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium since 2011. His research area covers international migration\, remittances\, the links between migrants and their households of origin\, the contribution of migration to development\, research methodology in social sciences\, data analysis\, etc. He is also interested in the links between migration and health. \nHe is currently Professor in the Department of Population and Development Sciences at the University of Kinshasa and Vice-Dean in charge of Research at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management. he is the author of several scientific articles\, including the most recent: \nGuide d’analyse des données en sciences sociales et humaines : De la conception de l’étude à la préparation des analyses. Paris : L’Harmattan; \n“Congolese Migration in Times of Political and Economic Crisis “ in Beauchemin\, Cris. Migration between Africa and Europe. Paris : Springer. pp. 189-216; \n“Congolese Migration and Family Life between Africa and Europe “ in Beauchemin\, Cris. Migration between Africa and Europe. Paris : Springer. pp. 239-264. \n“Migrant’s Remittances and Living Conditions of Households of Origin. Evidence from Kinshasa” in Emina\, J and Shapiro\, D. Population and Development Challenges in Sb-Saharan Africa. Dounia Review. N°7. Kinshasa-Bruxelles-Paris : pp. 99-126. \nDate: Tuesday 10 September 2019 \nTime: 12.45 -13.45 \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/migrants-remittances-and-living-conditions-of-households-of-origin-evidence-from-kinshasa/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Roundtable: Immigration\, policing and South Africa’s future politics
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a roundtable discussion on Immigration\, policing & South Africa’s future politics.  This roundtable discussion will explore the significance of the turn towards questions of immigration\, borders\, and sovereignty for the future of South African politics and security. \nDate: Wednesday 21 August 2019 \nTime: 16.30 -18.00 \nVenue: Senate Room\, Second Floor East Wing\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/roundtable-immigration-policing-and-south-africas-future-politics/
LOCATION:Senate Room\, Second Floor East Wing\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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