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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
DTSTAMP:20260803T142923Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200717T090000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200717T110000
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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
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200716T170000
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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
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200612T120000
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200612
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200521T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200521T190000
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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
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200224
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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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SUMMARY:Racial borders
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Racial borders by E. Tendayi Achiume (Professor of Law\, University of California). \nBorders sit firmly at the center of existential national and multilateral debates\, and for legal scholars the doctrine and theory of human movement across these borders calls for serious attention. The specific concern of this presentation will be the ongoing consolidation and expansion of a global migration governance regime that is deeply at odds with fundamental racial equality principles\, but that nonetheless remains immune to meaningful critique within the dominant frame of liberalism\, as both a legal and political project. Driven by a crisis discourse in Europe\, and the United States among others\, this global migration governance regime is multifaceted\, comprising a broad range of techniques. At one extreme\, are formal nationality-based bans on mobility and migration\, border externalization and militarization\, immigrant criminalization\, and even punitive “deterrent” strategies such as the separation of asylum-seeking families (include child removal). But this troubling regime should also be understood to include more neutrally and even positively regarded border and migrant controls such as passports and visa restrictions\, whose racialized operation remains firmly obscured by legal and political concepts such as sovereignty\, nationality\, and asylum on the one hand\, and economic and national security discourses on the other\, that today enjoy an unwarranted but tenacious presumption of race-neutrality. Historical and functional analysis warrants abandonment of the liberal presumption of the race-neutrality of borders\, in favor of the presumption that the tendency of most (if not all) contemporary national borders is to operate as racial borders—territorial and political institutions of admission and inclusion that\, in effect\, sort people\, and allocate mobility and migration privileges on a racial basis. \nBiography \nTendayi Achiume is Professor of Law at the University of California\, Los Angeles School of Law\, and a research associate of the African Center for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. She is also the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism\, Racial Discrimination\, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance\, and is the first woman to serve in this role since its creation in 1994. The current focus of her scholarship is the global governance of racism and xenophobia; and the legal and ethical implications of colonialism for contemporary international migration. Her publications include: Migration as Decolonization\, Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2019); Governing Xenophobia\, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (forthcoming 2018); Syria\, Cost-Sharing and the Responsibility to Protect Refugees\, 100 Minnesota Law Review 687 (2015); and Beyond Prejudice: Structural Xenophobic Discrimination Against Refugees\, 45(2) Georgetown Journal of International Law 323 (2014). Professor Achiume is the Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights\, at UCLA School of Law\, and a core faculty member of UCLA’s Critical Race Studies Program and the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. \nDate: Tuesday 20 August 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 \n  \n*Photo credit: Border patrol agents at the U.S.-Mexico border near Tijuana\, Mexico (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/racial-borders/
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SUMMARY:Queer(y)ing kinship in an age of assisted reproduction and LGBTQ rights
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society\, Wits Department of Anthropology\, GALA and Governing Intimacies invite you to a guest workshop by Ulrika Dahl (Professor of Gender Studies\, Uppsala University) on Queer(y)ing kinship in an age of assisted reproduction and LGBTQ rights. \nIn the context of expanding LGBTQ rights in the global north and elsewhere\, and at the intersection of expanding partnership/marriage and family law and a growing range of assisted reproduction technologies\, new questions are arising with regards to the classic field of kinship. What does it mean to be related? How does gender relate to parenthood? What does sexuality have to do with reproduction\, intimacy and family life? Drawing on the growing field of queer kinship studies\, this workshop will revolve around questions of queer/non-heterosexual/same-sex reproduction\, family-making\, intimacy and kinship in intersectional and critical perspectives. In particular\, it will ask how inequalities are reproduced and challenged\, what reproductive justice means for differently situated LGBTQ people and how we might study the lived experiences of LGBTQ families\, and above all\, aim to consider how queer reproduction and kinship challenges how we understand gender\, sexuality\, race and kinship? \nFormat and expectations:  \nThe workshop is open to all who are interested in these topics. Workshop leader Ulrika Dahl will offer some introductory remarks on current trends in queer kinship studies in the ”global north” and discuss her own empirical and theoretical work. The main idea of the workshop\, however\, is to engage in scholarly exchange about issues pertaining to research on questions of gender\, sexuality\, race\, nation and kinship as they relate to the geopolitics of knowledge production and gender and sexual politics. To that end\, the workshop will revolve around questions arising from participants’ own interests and ongoing or planned empirical work on topics related to (assisted) reproduction\, LGBTQ rights\, gender and queer theory\, kinship theory and affect theory\, etc. \nFor the purpose of framing introductory remarks\, participants are kindly asked to by August 12\, please send a short presentation of yourself and your research to ulrika.dahl@gender.uu.se along with any questions you would like to discuss. Participants should also come prepared to engage in the workshop and to briefly present and discuss ongoing or planned empirical work on related topics. Topics may include methodological\, theoretical and political aspects of research on queer kinship as well as other questions related to academic work\, publishing and funding. Below is a list of readings that relate to the topic and that participants are encouraged to consider. If you do not have access to these readings\, please contact Ulrika. \nReadings: \nUlrika’s work: \n\nDahl\, Ulrika (2018) ”(The promise of) Monstrous kinship? Queer Reproduction and the Somatechnics of Sexual and Racial Difference” Somatechnics 8.2: 195–211\n(2018) ‘Becoming fertile in the land of organic milk: Lesbian and queer reproductions of femininity and motherhood in Sweden.’ Sexualities. 21(7): 1021–1038\n(2014) ’Not Gay as in Happy\, but Queer as in Fuck You: Notes on Love and Failure inQueer(ing) kinship’ lambda Nordica nr. 3-4:143-168.\n\nSome readings on queer kinship (many can be found OA on line): \n\nButler\, Judith (2002) ”Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?” differences 13.1: 14–44.\nFreeman\, Elizabeth (2007). ”Queer Belongings: Kinship Theory and Queer Theory.” In A Companion to Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, Transgender\, and Queer Studies\, edited by George Haggerty and Molly McGarry\, 295–314. Malden\, MA: Blackwell Publishing.\nHonkasalo\, Julian. (2018). ”Unfit for parenthood? compulsory sterilization and transgender reproductive justice in Finland.” Journal of International Women’s Studies\, 20(1)\, 40.\nLangdridge\, Darren (2013) Gay fathers\, gay citizenship: on the power of reproductive futurism and assimilation\, Citizenship Studies\, 17:6-7\, 728-741\nLeibetseder\, Doris & Gabriele Griffin (2019): States of reproduction: the coproduction of queer and trans parenthood in three European countries\, Journal of Gender Studies\, DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2019.1636773\nMizielinska\, Joanna & Agata Stacinska (2018) ”Beyond the Western Gaze: Families of Choice in Poland” Sexualities 21(7):983-100.\nMoore\, Mignon R. (2008) ”Gendered Power Relations among Women: A Study of Household Decision Making in Black\, Lesbian Stepfamilies” American Sociological Review\, 73(2): 335-356.\nNordqvist Petra (2009) ”Feminist heterosexual imaginaries of reproduction: Lesbian conception in feminist studies of reproductive technologies.” Feminist Theory 9(3): 273–292.\nRiggs\, Damien and Elizabeth Peel (2016) Critical Kinship Studies: An introduction to the field. London: Palgrave McMillan.\nRubin\, Gayle. 1975/1990. ‘The traffic in women: Notes on the political economy of sex’\, in Women\, Class\, and the Feminist Imagination\, Karen Hansen and Ilene Philipson\, eds. Philadelphia: Temple\, p. 74-113.\nRussell\, Camisha (2018) ”Rights-holders or refugees? Do gay men need reproductive justice?” Reproductive Biomedicine & Society online\, 7\, 131-140.\nRyan\, Maura & Amanda Moras (2016): Race matters in lesbian donor insemination: whiteness and heteronormativity as co-constituted narratives\, Ethnic and Racial Studies.\nSpillers\, Hortense J. 1987. ’Mama’s Baby\, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book’\, Diacritics\, 17(2): 64-81\n\nBiography \nUlrika Dahl is a cultural anthropologist and professor of gender studies at the Centre for gender research\, Uppsala University in Sweden and a leading queer feminist voice in the Nordic region. Her research interests include postcolonial european ethnography\, feminist and queer politics\, critical femininity studies\, affect theory\, queer kinship and reproduction\, and decolonial perspectives on knowledge production and her work draws on intersectional\, postcolonial and critical race feminisms\, feminist science studies and critical whiteness studies. Among Ulrika’s publications in English are the books Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities (with Del LaGrace Volcano\, 2008) and The Geopolitics of Nordic and Russian Gender research 1975-2005 (with Ulla Manns and Marianne Liljeström\, 2016) and articles in Feminist theory\, Sexualities\, New Formations\, Paragraph\, Somatechnics and European Journal of Women’s Studies among other journals. Currently\, she is working on an ethnographic book project on queer family making and the politics of gender\, race and nation in Sweden. She is also editor of lambda nordica-Nordic journal of LGBTQ studies\, associate editor of European Journal of Women’s Studies and runs the interdisciplinary network ’Nature as culture: The (re)production of common sense’ at Uppsala University. With a passion for creative writing\, Ulrika also writes regularly for broader audiences and for queer and feminist press and she regularly collaborates with cultural producers and organises antiracist and queer feminist events in Stockholm.  \nDate: Friday 16 August 2019 \nTime: 10.00 -13.00 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/queerying-kinship-in-an-age-of-assisted-reproduction-and-lgbtq-rights/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Precarious Labourers of Love: Queer Kinship\, Reproductive Labour and Biopolitics
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Precarious Labourers of Love: Queer Kinship\, Reproductive Labour and Biopolitics by Ulrika Dahl (Professor of Gender Studies\, Uppsala University). \nThis seminar explores how different forms of reproductive labour create different precarities within LGBTQ parenting and kin-making in contemporary Sweden. It especially considers the precarisation of biological labour in a setting where intimate labour is the foundation for kin-making and where the necessary making\, gestating and breastfeeding of a child is downplayed in relation to parenthood status. Drawing on ethnographic research\, the seminar also illuminates how ‘biology’ produces strong feelings\, even in a queer kinship structure that departs from the notion of intent and intimate labour as equally shared matters. Framing queer reproduction as both a biopolitical question and a question of gender labour the seminar then discusses how gendered and racialised ideas of parenthood and kinship are reproduced and reworked in imaginaries of LGBTQ parenthood. Contributing to critical whiteness studies\, it argues that the (queer) nation is repeatedly recreated as white while whiteness remains invisible to those who inhabit it. \nBiography \nUlrika Dahl is a cultural anthropologist and professor of gender studies at the Centre for gender research\, Uppsala University in Sweden and a leading queer feminist voice in the Nordic region. Her research interests include postcolonial european ethnography\, feminist and queer politics\, critical femininity studies\, affect theory\, queer kinship and reproduction\, and decolonial perspectives on knowledge production and her work draws on intersectional\, postcolonial and critical race feminisms\, feminist science studies and critical whiteness studies. Among Ulrika’s publications in English are the books Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities (with Del LaGrace Volcano\, 2008) and The Geopolitics of Nordic and Russian Gender research 1975-2005 (with Ulla Manns and Marianne Liljeström\, 2016) and articles in Feminist theory\, Sexualities\, New Formations\, Paragraph\, Somatechnics and European Journal of Women’s Studies among other journals. Currently\, she is working on an ethnographic book project on queer family making and the politics of gender\, race and nation in Sweden. She is also editor of lambda nordica-Nordic journal of LGBTQ studies\, associate editor of European Journal of Women’s Studies and runs the interdisciplinary network ’Nature as culture: The (re)production of common sense’ at Uppsala University. With a passion for creative writing\, Ulrika also writes regularly for broader audiences and for queer and feminist press and she regularly collaborates with cultural producers and organises antiracist and queer feminist events in Stockholm. \nDate: Tuesday 13 August 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/precarious-labourers-of-love-queer-kinship-reproductive-labour-and-biopolitics/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Public Symposium on Migration and Health in Southern Africa and The South African Launch of the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society’s Migration and health project Southern Africa: maHp and Security at the Margins – SeaM\, in partnership with UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health\, Wits School of Public Health\, MRC/WITS-University Rural Public Health & Agincourt Research Unit\, Mhadri – the global Migration\, Health and Development Research Initiative and Demography and Population Studies\, University of the Witwatersrand will host a Public Symposium on Migration and Health in Southern Africa and The South African Launch of the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health . This one-day event brings together government\, civil society and academia to explore opportunities for improving responses to migration and health in Southern Africa\, which will be followed by the South African launch of the 2018 UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health. \nDate: 1 August 2019 \nTime: 3.30-17.30 \nVenue: Wits Club\, University of the Witwatersrand\, West Campus\, Braamfontein\, Johannesburg \nRSVP to rechelle.tsunke@wits.ac.za is essential.
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/public-symposium-on-migration-and-health-in-southern-africa-and-the-south-african-launch-of-the-ucl-lancet-commission-on-migration-and-health/
LOCATION:Wits Club\, University of the Witwatersrand\, West Campus\, Braamfontein\, Johannesburg
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190723T124500
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SUMMARY:Afrophobia and the Law:  How has the South African Judiciary Responded to Cases of Afrophobia?
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Afrophobia and the Law: How has the South African Judiciary Responded to Cases of Afrophobia? by Patrick Kadima (Oliver Schreiner school of Law\, University of the Witwatersrand). \n\nThe rise in anti-immigrant sentiments in established democracies across the globe has undoubtedly produced very odd results. In the United States of America\, the growing abhorrence of migrants led to the election of Donald trump whilst in Britain the increase in hatred of migrants has led to what we now know as Brexit and reinforced the gloomy idea that these two countries that hold democracy to heart are not cosmopolitan after all. The African Union adopted the Agenda 2063 in a bid to unite a continent that came from a painful past but this has not been an easy task. In 2008\, 2015 and 2017 African migrants in South Africa experienced Afrophobic attacks that resulted in some being murdered\, shops owned by African migrants being looted and burnt and many other criminal activities. South Africa is unquestionably one of the countries that has a high number of documented and non-undocumented African migrants. This seminar will first begin by seeking answers to the root cause of Afrophobia. This research will also briefly look into whether Afro-phobia is the right legal term rather than xenophobia. This paper has three objectives. The main objective that the study will seek to achieve is to analyse the jurisprudential culture that the courts have adopted as well as interpretations that the courts have used to arrive to a certain particular decision. The penultimate objective is to look at whether the various courts have recognised Afrophobia as a distinct social problem\, If No what are the implications thereof of that non-recognition. The last objective of this research will be to critically analyse whether legal mechanisms such as court judgements or judgements from the South African Human Rights Commissions are sufficient to prevent Afrophobia. In essence\, the last objective seeks to ask the simple question of whether the law is the answer to this type of social ill (Afro-phobia). In the end\, this thesis does not aim to construct a set of doctrines. Instead\, Patrick hopes it conveys a sense of the theory of Human rights law and constitutional law as a wide-ranging tradition that is dynamic\, pluralist\, and legally engaged. \nBiography \nPatrick Kadima holds a BA Degree from Stellenbosch University and he is currently pursuing his graduate LLB degree at the Oliver Schreiner school of Law (University of the Witwatersrand). Patrick’s interests are in Social Justice and Human rights\, Insurance Law\, Tax Law\, Constitutional Law\, International Trade Law and Public International Law. From time to time Patrick Opines for National Newspapers and has published articles in the City Press\, Cape Times and The citizen. \nDate: Tuesday 23 July 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/afrophobia-and-the-law-how-has-the-south-african-judiciary-responded-to-cases-of-afrophobia/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Determinants of immigrants’ feeling of sense of belonging in the midst of host hostility: The experience of second-generation Nigerian immigrants in Johannesburg
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Determinants of immigrants’ feeling of sense of belonging in the midst of host hostility: The experience of second-generation Nigerian immigrants in Johannesburg by Chioma Joyce Onukogu (African Centre for Migration & Society\, University of the Witwatersrand). \n\nThe assumption that immigrants will feel less sense of belonging in a host environment where they are not accepted\, supported\, integrated and welcomed is not out of place. However\, an in-depth study of ten Nigerian second-generation children conducted in Johannesburg revealed the contrary. It was found that the children who reported experiences of discrimination\, bullying\, rejection and xenophobia from their peers at school and who experience discriminatory policies of the state towards them feel a sense of belonging in South Africa.  The seminar challenges conventional theories that link immigrants’ sense of belonging to the host country’s immigrant integration policies and welcoming attitudes towards immigrants.  It also rejects the notion that negative experiences reduce the feeling of sense of belonging in the host country. Looking at the overall migration context\, the seminar shows that other hidden factors\, such as agency\, friendship networks\, family and transnational networks\, the church\, diversity in school and membership in cultural associations\, cushion the negative effects of hostility. \nBiography \nDr. Chioma Joyce Onukogu obtained a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Sociology from University of Calabar\, Nigeria. She was later employed as a lecturer at Imo State University\, Owerri\, where she also pioneered the establishment of the Psychology department of the university. She obtained a second Master’s degree in Development Studies from University of the Witwatersrand\, and subsequently a PhD in Sociology from the University of Johannesburg in 2018. Dr. Chioma tutored at University of Johannesburg from 2014 – 2017. She has authored one book\, co-authored two books\, contributed book chapters and has presented papers in both national and international conferences. Dr. Chioma’s special research interest in second-generation children of African immigrants in South Africa led to her PhD thesis entitled “The Identity and Integration of Second-Generation Children of Nigerian Immigrants in Johannesburg.” The thesis is highly commended for its originality in the field of South African migration research. \nDate: Tuesday 23 April 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/determinants-of-immigrants-feeling-of-sense-of-belonging-in-the-midst-of-host-hostility-the-experience-of-second-generation-nigerian-immigrants-in-johannesburg/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society and GALA are pleased to host the Book launch of Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies over Borders and Border over Bodies. This book by B Camminga tracks the conceptual journeying of the term ‘transgender’ from the Global North—where it originated—along with the physical embodied journeying of transgender asylum seekers from countries within Africa to South Africa and considers the interrelationships between the two. The term ‘transgender’ transforms as it travels\, taking on meaning in relation to bodies\, national homes\, institutional frameworks and imaginaries. This study centres on the experiences and narratives of people that can be usefully termed ‘gender refugees’\, gathered through a series of life story interviews. It is the argument of this book that the departures\, border crossings\, arrivals and perceptions of South Africa for gender refugees have been both enabled and constrained by the contested meanings and politics of this emergence of transgender. This book explores\, through these narratives\, the radical constitutional-legal possibilities for ‘transgender’ in South Africa\, the dissonances between the possibilities of constitutional law\, and the pervasive politics/logic of binary ‘sex/gender’ within South African society. \nDate: Thursday 11 April 2019 \nTime: 18.30 for 19.00 \nVenue: Breezeblock Café\, 29 Chiswick Street\, Johannesburg \nRefreshments will be served | RSVP: info@migration.org.za
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/book-launch-transgender-refugees-and-the-imagined-south-africa/
LOCATION:Breezeblock Café\, 29 Chiswick Street\, Johannesburg
CATEGORIES:Book launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190409T124500
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SUMMARY:Political economy of informalisation
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Political economy of informalisation by Zoran Slavnić (Institute for Research on Migration\, Ethnicity and Society\, Linkoping University). \n\nThe concept of informal economy in Western economies is traditionally understood as denoting a sort of marginal\, ‘separate’ economy\, related to the survival strategies of marginal social groups\, as distinct from the so-called formal economy that comprises mainly big companies as well as the state\, which together with its institutions partly sets the rules and partly is itself an economic actor. Zoran’s seminar has an ambition to critically re-examine this actual concept of informal economy\, and to highlight the permeability of the borderline between formal economy and informal economy. Informalisation of so-called advanced economies is\, according to the argument that Zoran puts forward\, closely related to the wider processes of ongoing neoliberal restructuring of Western economies on the one hand and to the parallel process of the recomposition of Western welfare states on the other. Two notions of informalization are proposed: informalization from above andinformalisation from below. Informalisation from above includes corporate strategies of downsizing\, outsourcing and subcontracting\, as well as the coping strategies of the welfare state\, both of which contain dynamic forces ofinformalisation in economies and labour markets. Informalisation from below is constituted by a range of marginalised actors (low-income earners\, small-business owners active in work-intensive and highly competitive markets\, immigrants and irregular migrants)\, who share a common condition manifested in the lack of legal status and protection\, extreme vulnerability and a dependence on informal engagements that generate their own idiosyncratic ‘political economy’. \nBiography \nZoran Slavnić works as Associate Professor at REMESO (Institute for Research on Migration\, Ethnicity and Society)\, as well as a lecturer in the program for Social and Cultural Analysis (SKA)\, at Linköping University. Zoran’s scientific interest has been quite wide\, encompassing ethnic and migration studies\, sociology of higher education\, Eastern European studies\, sociological theory\, economic sociology\, philosophy of science\, industrial relations\, refugee studies\, and tourism studies. However\, the main focus of Zoran’s research has been on the political economy of international migration\, which could be described as an integrated approach to studies of migration\, economic restructuring\, citizenship\, and social welfare. Zoran’s actual research is related to the research project Immigrants’ legal status\, integration and life course patterns in Sweden\, which is financed by Swedish Research Council for Health\, Working Life and Welfare. The project focuses on relationship between immigrants’ entry categories and legal status and their socioeconomic integration after obtaining the residence permits. \nDate: Tuesday 9 April 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/political-economy-of-informalisation/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190319T124500
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SUMMARY:“The Personal is Political”: Engaging in arts-based teaching and research methods to center wellness in classroom and community spaces
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled “The Personal is Political”: Engaging in arts-based teaching and research methods to center wellness in classroom and community spaces by LeConté Dill (New York University College of Global Public Health). \nThis seminar is framed by the popular saying from the U.S. Student Movement and Second-Wave Feminist Movement of the late1960s—“the personal is political”—to explore the connections between personal experiences and larger socio-political structures. Informed by the personal experiences of stress and trauma among students and research participants\, this seminar will delve into how scholars can engage with literature\, music\, and visual art to not only deconstruct such trauma but also to map out multiple practices of wellness. Such arts-based knowledges serve as rich examples\, particularly for public health practitioners and migration scholars\, to critically examine our own analyses and role in engendering personal and collective healing\, health\, and wellness. Participants in the seminar will be invited to use their own experiential knowledges and seminar discussion topics to create a brief poem\, song\, or femifesto to generate new insights regarding teaching and research collaboration and dissemination strategies. \nBiography \nDr. LeConté Dill is the Director of Public Health Practice and a Clinical Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the New York University College of Global Public Health. She is a transdisciplinary scholar focused on combatting health inequities and fostering protective factors among people of color living in urban spaces. Guided by Black Feminist epistemologies\, Dr. Dill engages in qualitative\, arts-based\, and community-accountable research methods to examine the relationship between urban adolescent development and multiple levels of violence. Her work has been published in such journals as the American Journal of Public Health\, Health Education & Behavior\, The Ethnographic Edge\, Meridians: feminism\, race\, transnationalism\, and Agenda. Additionally\, since 2015\, Dr. Dill has been a Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg\, South Africa. Her recent scholarship documents the spectrum of trauma\, police violence\, community resilience\, and collective healing. \nDate: Tuesday 19 March 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/the-personal-is-political-engaging-in-arts-based-teaching-and-research-methods-to-center-wellness-in-classroom-and-community-spaces/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190312T124500
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SUMMARY:“What futures were they ‘waiting’ for anyway?”: Addis Ababan youth in cultural dissent in the years leading up to the Ethiopian revolution\, c.1950s-1974
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled “What futures were they ‘waiting’ for anyway?”: Addis Ababan youth in cultural dissent in the years leading up to the Ethiopian revolution\, c.1950s-1974 by Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw (Institute of Ethiopian Studies\, Addis Ababa University). \nIn this seminar Asfaw shows how everyday social and cultural performative practices have been formative of political subjecthood for Addis Ababan youth prior to the Ethiopian revolution of 1974. Asfaw attempts to show the linkage between cultural dissent and the making of the Ethiopian revolution through an examination of social and cultural changes in urban space (particularly\, Addis Ababa) among the youth between 1950 and 1974. \nBiography \nSemeneh Ayalew Asfaw is a researcher at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University. He is currently a PhD candidate at University of Cape Town in Political Studies at the Faculty of Humanities Research. He is currently researching for his dissertation project the relationship between urban space\, rural-urban migration and social and cultural change among the young and urban in pre-revolution Ethiopia (c.1950s-1974). His research interest includes revolutions\, social movements\, popular culture and revolutionary terminology. He published and researched on areas ranging from music and social history\, political consciousness\, the formation of political identities and city making in Ethiopia. His works have historical and spatial focus. \nDate: Tuesday 12 March 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/what-futures-were-they-waiting-for-anyway-addis-ababan-youth-in-cultural-dissent-in-the-years-leading-up-to-the-ethiopian-revolution-c-1950s-1974/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Narrative representation and analysis of health and migration: An Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to African literary studies
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a Methods Workshop on Narrative representation and analysis of health and migration: An Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to African literary studies\, a guest session by Dr Chisomo Kalinga (Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Fellow\, University of Edinburgh). \nAfrican literary studies is becoming more representative of the diversity and complexity of the literatures it produces within the continent in regards to its critical engagement with discourses of health\, wellbeing and illness. This discussion focuses on migrant narratives and introduces key theories that engage with methodology\, which draws from indigenous\, regional and multicultural perspectives. Kalinga discusses whether traditional approaches to literary analysis are adequately fitted for the kind of inquiry that is structured around literary studies’ Eurocentric fixations on invasion and intrusion of migrant bodies. Accordingly\, the discussion will outline mixed methods approaches to African migrant narratives and their interrogation of medicine\, treatment\, health\, wellbeing and identity. Modes of analysis include literary analysis (indigenous narrative interpretation\, Interpretive community response and reception theory)\, qualitative methodologies in data collection (participant observation\, focus groups\, in-depth interviews\, narrative ethnography\, and a minor application of thematic analysis) and community-based participatory action research methods in the study of African literary practices. \nBiography \nDr Chisomo Kalinga is a Wellcome-funded researcher in the medical humanities at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh and a maHp Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand. The objective of her current project is to determine how storytelling and narrative representation can be used to improve delivery of health care services through a better understanding of the interplay between African indigenous literature and structures of thought surrounding health. Several of the research sites are located on the Mozambican\, Tanzanian and Zambian borders to encourage a deeper understanding of African borderlands as a conceptual space and its impact on access to healthcare. As part of the project\, she is collaborating with the College of Medicine at the University of Malawi to mobilize the first medical humanities network for Malawiana studies. Her PhD was completed at King’s College London (2014) and offered a comparative study of Malawian and American AIDS fiction. Her research interests are illness\, wellbeing\, biomedicine\, traditional healing and witchcraft and their narrative representation in African health narratives. \nDate:    Friday 15 February 2019 \nTime:    9:30 to 11:30 \nVenue:  ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, East Campus\, University of the Witwatersrand
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/narrative-representation-and-analysis-of-health-and-migration-an-interdisciplinary-and-transdisciplinary-approach-to-african-literary-studies/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Barriers to Asylum Seekers Claiming Their Rights in South Africa's Asylum Management System
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Barriers to asylum seekers claiming their rights in South Africa’s asylum management system by Susan Tolmay (Amnesty International South Africa). \nSouth Africa’s failed asylum management process has been well documented over the years. While a strong legal and human rights framework exists\, the implementation of existing laws and policies\, and even court orders is starkly lacking.  Amnesty International South Africa (AISA) embarked on research to gather its own data on the experiences of asylum seekers attempting to exercise their rights to get and remain documented in South Africa. The research set out to examine the status of Refugee Reception Offices (RROs) in South Africa\, but inability to gain access to the three open RROs meant we shifted the focus to the effects of the closures of three of the urban RROs (Cape Town\, Port Elizabeth and Crown Mines) on the lives of asylum seekers.  Aside from being in contempt of court orders\, for years\, to reopen the Cape Town and Port Elizabeth RROs (recently reopened)\, a range of factors make it extremely difficult for asylum seekers to claim and receive refugee status. Major issues include a lack of understanding or explanation of the asylum management system; lack of or poor-quality interpretation; lack of legal representation and poor decision-making including mistakes of fact\, lack of sound reasoning\, misapplication of local and international refugee law leading to high rejection rates – 96% rejection rate. The result of the failures in the asylum management system is that asylum seekers live in limbo\, without status for up to 15 years and longer. The effects of which are multi-layered including financial\, physical and psychosocial. It also results in asylum seekers being undocumented\, exposing them to further abuse\, discrimination and persecution. AISA will use the research to develop a people-centred campaign to hold government accountable and to change perceptions towards asylum seekers and refugees in the country. \nBiography \nSusan Tolmay has been working in the area of gender and women’s rights for over seven years. Over the years she has been involved in a range of programmes around gender and the media\, gender justice and mainly gender and governance. Her work in the area of gender and governance has related to issues of representation and participation of women in political decision making in general but with a specific focus on gender and local governance. She has conducted and coordinated research on gender and local government in ten Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries and has co-edited the publication series At the Coalface: Gender and Local Government in Southern Africa. She has also been involved in developing training materials\, facilitation and developing gender and gender-based violence strategies and action plans for local councils in the SADC Region. \nDate: Tuesday 20 November 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/barriers-to-asylum-seekers-claiming-their-rights-in-south-africas-asylum-management-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:Migration in North and Central America: Myths and Realities
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series hosted jointly with the Mexican Studies Centre\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Migration in North and Central America: Myths and realities by Jorge Schiavon (International Studies Department\, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas). \nThis presentation will analyze the migration phenomenon in North and Central America\, stressing how myths and misconceptions have prevailed over serious analysis of the real flows. It will argue that the study of migration should emphasize its effects on development and on the four different components of the process: emigration\, immigration\, transit\, and return. The central challenge of analyzing migration in North and Central America is to avoid analyzing today’s realities with yesterday’s lenses and tools. The more attractive and high impact migration studies will be those that evolve to studying migration in North and Central America analyzing regional migratory systems from a comprehensive (emigration\, immigration\, transit and return migration)\, inclusive (all relevant actors)\, comparative (in time and space)\, and interdisciplinary perspective\, placing special emphasis on its effects on development and human rights. \nHistorically\, Mexican and Central American policy-makers and academics were mostly obsessed with the emigration component of the equation\, while the U.S. scholars and policy-makers have only been interested in the immigration part. The net flow of Mexican migrants north of the border has been decreasing since the mid-2000s as a result of changing demographics in Mexico\, increased border controls and deportations in the United States\, and the 2008-09 economic crisis\, among other variables; the result is a negative net flow today\, with a marginally decreasing stock of Mexicans in the United States. On the other hand\, returning Mexican and Central American migrants\, Central Americans migrants in transit through Mexico to the United States\, and immigrants entering Mexico and the United States have increased\, shifting the focus of interest and analysis to these other components of the equation. Also\, migration has become an increasingly regional phenomenon\, including the United States\, Mexico\, Central America\, the Caribbean\, and even Canada and Andean countries\, as relevant pieces to understand the constitution of a regional migratory system including practically all the countries in North and Central America and the Caribbean. The findings about migration in this North and Central America can be useful to understand the phenomenon in other regions of the world. \nBiography \nJorge Schiavon is a Professor of International Relations at the International Studies Department\, CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) (1999–today) and Coordinator (2013-today) of the Interdisciplinary Program on Migration at CIDE (CIDE-MIG). He was Chair of the International Studies Department (2007-2010)\, Secretary General (Vice-Rector) of CIDE (2004-2007)\, and Director of the B.A. Program in Political Science and International Relations (2000-2001); President of the Mexican International Studies Association (AMEI in Spanish) (2011-2013)\, and Founding President of the Latin American Federation of International Studies Associations (FLAEI) (2012-2013). He is a member of the National Research System (SNI) in Mexico\, level 2. Jorge Holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Affairs (University of California\, San Diego\, UCSD); M.A. in Political Science (UCSD); B.A. in International Relations (El Colegio de México); and Diploma in Public International Law (The Hague Academy of International Law\, International Court of Justice). He is an author/editor of 16 academic books\, and 100+ articles and chapters on Mexican foreign policy\, history of Mexican international relations\, migration\, sub-State diplomacy (paradiplomacy); public opinion and foreign policy; regional integration in Latin America and North America; U.S.-Mexico-Canada relations and Hemispheric Latin American relations. Has taught 70+ undergraduate and graduate courses\, and participated in over 300+ conferences and lectures worldwide. \nDate: Tuesday 13 November 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/migration-in-north-and-central-america-myths-and-realities/
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 spectacle versus the ordinary: Urban change and narratives of difference along a 'Chinese' street in suburban Johannesburg
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series hosted jointly with the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS)\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The spectacle versus the ordinary: Urban change and narratives of difference along a ‘Chinese’ street in suburban Johannesburg by Romain Dittgen (African Centre for Migration & Society\, University of the Witwatersrand) and Gerald Chungu (School of Architecture and Planning\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nDerrick Avenue in Cyrildene\, a suburb in the eastern parts of the city\, is the closest one can get to a clichéd Chinese (street life) atmosphere in Johannesburg. With its wide array of restaurants\, businesses and significant numbers of Chinese residents\, customers and shopkeepers\, this activity node sparks imaginaries of a spatialised elsewhere while standing in sharp contrast to the surrounding\, mostly residential\, neighbourhood. Owing to the prevalence of visible Chinese markers and its demographics\, this street has mainly been viewed as exceptional and different\, contributing to divorcing Derrick Avenue from the rest of the city. Yet\, at the same time and irrespective of its Chinese qualities\, it also points to a number of urban dynamics that characterise Johannesburg as a whole\, whether in terms of challenges or opportunities. If Derrick Avenue conveys the image of a disorderly strip with its over-crowding\, informality and lacking urban management\, at the same time the clustering of different functions epitomises the sort of compact\, dense and mixed-use urban environment that is envisioned by the local administration at a wider metropolitan level. \nIn this seminar\, the presenters seek to understand how these specific characteristics of a lived or constructed differentiation relate to geographies of the ordinary. Due to Chinese layers being added on top of a pre-existing urban fabric\, the transformations occurring in this suburb\, both in terms of the built environment and ways of living\, echo changes happening elsewhere. Consequently\, the presenters challenge tropes that tend to qualify this section of Cyrildene merely as an ethnic enclave or ethnoburb\, and see existing land-uses and forms of (compact) co-existence as indicative of normal urban shifts in various parts of the city. By focusing on the recent public participation process linked to the Cyrildene Precinct Plan as well as on the built environment along Derrick Avenue\, the presenters explore how narratives of difference and othering are articulated. \n  \nBiographies \nRomain Dittgen is a Human Geographer holding a PhD from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He is currently a Postdoctoral fellow (‘Life in the City’ Research Grant)\, jointly hosted by the African Centre for Migration & Society and the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis & City Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg. In his research\, often comparative\, he has mostly been interested in studying the effects of various forms of capital on societies in Africa\, with a particular focus on the spatial dynamics of Chinese actors. \nGerald Chungu is an Architect and Urban Designer based in the school of architecture and planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg\, South Africa. His work has centred around issues of sustainability\, non-formal and hybrid urbanism and most recently on the Chinese influences in shaping the built environment in urban African cities. Gerald combines academic work with architectural and urban design practice and spent 12 years working in Shanghai as an Architect and Urban Designer. He studied Architecture at Copperbelt University\, Urban Design at Tongji University\, Shanghai and obtained a PhD in Urbanism fromUniversity of Venice – IUAV in Italy. \nDate: Tuesday 6 November 2018 \nTime: 12.30 -13.30 \nVenue: ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/the-spectacle-versus-the-ordinary-urban-change-and-narratives-of-difference-along-a-chinese-street-in-suburban-johannesburg/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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