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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181120T123000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181113T123000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181106T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181106T133000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181023T123000
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SUMMARY:Places of Promise or Poverty? Urban informal Settlements in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Places of promise or poverty? Urban informal settlements in South Africa by Eldridge Moses (Department of Economics\, Stellenbosch University). \n  \n\nSince the 1970s informal settlements or slums have grown dramatically in number and size on the outskirts of South Africa’s economic centres in order to satisfy urban unskilled and semi-skilled labour demand. However\,provision of basic services has not kept pace with the rapid growth of the urban slum population. In addition\, school resources are constrained by the settlement of internal migrants on the outskirts of\, and within cities and large towns. The mismatch between urban population growth and service delivery has manifested itself in protests\, which are often violent and damaging to political stability. \nThe South African experience\, and indeed that of developing countries in general\, suggests that while migration to urban informal areas may serve a necessary labour market function of reducing search costs for both the firm and worker\, it by no means guarantees that individual rural-urban migrants and their family are better off than their rural counterparts who decide not to migrate in terms of education and health outcomes. It is also unclear whether or not slum settlement allows for social mobility in the urban environment. \nThis paper therefore investigates whether slum settlement provides distinct welfare advantages\, and whether slum settlement allows for social mobility through the labour market. The paper first identifies the characteristics of individuals most likely to form new urban informal area households. It finds that youth and recent migration significantly increase the probability of becoming the head of a new urban informal area household. Additionally\, the longitudinal data also shows that residential mobility for urban informal area residents is limited\, casting doubt on the characterisation of informal areas as transitory phenomena. Labour market analysis also finds evidence of labour market penalties for urban informality\, in the forms of poor employment prospects\, weak occupational mobility and low wages for urban informal area residents relative to their urban formal area counterparts. This paper’s contribution to the literature is its use of longitudinal data to shape a dynamic perspective on new urban informal household formation\, and labour market prospects for urban informal area residents in the South African context. \n\n\n\nBiography \nEldridge Moses currently works as a Lecturer in the Department of Economics\, Stellenbosch University. \nDate: Tuesday 23 October 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/places-of-promise-or-poverty-urban-informal-settlements-in-south-africa/
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:20180925T123000
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SUMMARY:Gathering stories from migrants and the women left behind: A methods perspective
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Gathering family histories from migrants and the women left behind: A methods perspective by Grascious Ncube (Department of Development Studies\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nWithin the growing scholarship on transnational migration\, the methodological approaches and time perspective employed in these studies have received some criticism. One of the major critiques is that research tends to focus more on the transmigrants (those who move) and neglects those who remain behind. In addition\, studies have failed to trace processes of intergenerational flows in migrant families over multiple generations\, thus failing to incorporate family migration trajectories from a historical perspective. Indeed\, relatively few migration studies are anchored on tracing the historical interactions and dynamics of migrant families and some criticisms have been levelled against the methodological approaches used by these studies. For example\, these have been criticised for proffering situational realities based on individuals’ narratives whose standpoints are fluid and shaped by the continual changes in their context. This issue questions the adequacy\, authenticity and epistemological validity of the reality presented in these family history accounts. \nIn this presentation\, Grascious addresses some of these criticisms through the use of multi-sited ethnography to incorporate the realities of those who migrate as well as those who stay behind. She gathered family histories from left behind family members in Tsholotsho in the Matabeleland North Province of Zimbabwe – the majority of these are women – and migrant members from Tsholotsho residing in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, to assess the contemporary changes and historical continuities within families in the context of sustained cross-border migration. Grascious will reflect on the methodological implications derived from gathering these family histories from both sides of the transnational continuum. She will discuss the different ways of conceptualising families\, from the perspectives of the women left behind and from the migrants’ perspectives. In doing so\, she argues that reconstructing family history in the context of transmigration requires not just an account of one history but of many histories emanating from intersections of different families all conglomerated to form one family through the eyes of the history teller.  Family history perspectives on migration challenge the patrilineal configuration of families. Methodological challenges associated with family histories in the context of migration need to address the spatial dimension of those who have moved and those left behind. \nBiography \nGracsious Maviza (nee Ncube) is a registered PhD Fellow in the Department of Development Studies\, Wits Univeristy. Her research focus is on assessing the contemporary changes and historical continuities within families in the context of sustained cross-border migration in the Matabeleland North Province of Zimbabwe. She is also a Research Fellow with the Institute of Development Studies of The National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe. She has a number of publications in the fields of migration\, livelihoods\, gender\, food security and local economic development in peer reviewed journals. She holds an MA in Development Studies majoring in Local and Regional Development from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS) in The Hague\, The Netherlands and a BSc honours in Sociology from the University of Zimbabwe. \nDate: Tuesday 25 September 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/gathering-stories-from-migrants-and-the-women-left-behind-a-methods-perspective/
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SUMMARY:I Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa's Great Metropolis
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the launch of I Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis edited by Loren Landau and Tanya Pampalone in conversation with Karabo Kgoleng (writer\, radio broadcaster and arts reviewer)\, E. Tendayi Achiume (UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary forms of Racism\, Racial discrimination\, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance) and Tanya Pampalone\, (managing editor for the Global Investigative Journalism Network and co-editor of I Want to Go Home Forever) \n\nDate: 6 September 2018 \nTime: 18.00 \nVenue: Constitution Hill\, 11 Kotze Street Braamfontein\, Johannesburg
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/i-want-to-go-home-forever-stories-of-becoming-and-belonging-in-south-africas-great-metropolis/
LOCATION:Constitution Hill\, 11 Kotze Street Braamfontein\, Johannesburg
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180823T140000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180823T160000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142915Z
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SUMMARY:Using pre-existing data for your own research
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a Methods Workshop on Using pre-existing data for your own research\, a guest session by Professor Alison Koslowski (School of Social and Political Science\, University of Edinburgh). \nCollecting your own data to do a research project is not always the best option. When using semi-structured interviews\, or fixed choice questionnaires\, the small number of respondents you can get ready access to and the time you have available to process the information you gather\, means that your data may tell you very little. \nHowever\, with a few basic skills that are easily picked up\, you can access high-quality data\, professionally assembled at substantial expense by expert organisations\, and based on genuinely random samples that allow you to generalize to the population from which they have been drawn. Such data are very interesting to work with! \nIn this session\, we consider the skills you need to search for\, locate\, access\, download\, manage\, process\, analyse and present data as empirical research evidence\, respecting the confidentiality or other obligations set by data providers and maintaining the security and integrity of the data you use. \nWe will see if we can find you alternative sources of data that you might consider for your own research! \nPreparation for the session: \nFamiliarise yourself with these resources and keep a note of any you find particularly helpful: \nhttps://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/ \nhttps://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk \nFor more information and to RSVP: naledi.mazibuko@wits.ac.za/ 011 717 4033 \nDate:    Thursday 23 August 2018 \nTime:    14:00 to 16:00 \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/using-pre-existing-data-for-your-own-research/
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SUMMARY:Basic Income: The Potential for Gendered Empowerment?
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a special public lecture titled Basic income: The potential for gendered empowerment? by Professor Alison Koslowski (School of Social and Political Science\, University of Edinburgh). \nBasic income is likely to gain momentum as the next social welfare trend to sweep over the world with ideas of how to improve the fairness and efficiency of distributing money. Other earlier movements with similar ambitions to transform societies\, ranging across the political spectrum from socialism to neo-liberalism\, have led to very different consequences for strata of citizens\, but have in common that they have de-prioritised gender equality in favour of other interests. Advocates of basic income suggest that in addition to pragmatic gains\, such as a more efficient state administration\, primarily a basic income will empower citizens\, leading to the potential for greater human flourishing. The question is whether this empowerment will be gendered and if so\, how? So far\, the basic income debate addresses gender only in so far as it would raise the income of the poorest\, of whom a larger proportion are women. However\, it is less clear how it might contribute to a transformation of gendered behaviour\, making possible divergent shapes of life where binary and set notions of gender are not a restriction.  The lecture discusses the idea of basic income from a perspective of gender equality in the Swedish context\, and from this draw wider conclusions about how those structures above and beyond a basic income\, such as childcare services and parental leave\, might be necessary to support progress towards gender equality. \nBiography \nAlison Koslowski is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. \nAlison’s research is focused on gender equality. She is currently a partner on an EU-FP7 funded collaborative project “Families and Societies – Changing Families and Sustainable Societies” (http://www.familiesandsocieties.eu). She very much enjoys working in inter-disciplinary teams. Other recent projects have been funded by the ESRC and the by Scottish Government. She is a member of the International Network on Leave Policies and Research and is co-editor of their annual international review. \nAlison has a long-standing interest in social research methods and data collection techniques and enjoys working both with big data sets employing quantitative methods of analysis and also with qualitative data\, in particular\, interview data. As the Director of the Edinburgh Q-Step Centre\, which is a quantitative methods training centre she has excellent links with colleagues at the National Centre for Research Methods\, the Administrative Data Research Centre Scotland and the Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN). \nDate: Thursday 23 August 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/basic-income-the-potential-for-gendered-empowerment/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Transnational motherhood and economic failure:  Latina immigrant domestic workers and the children they left behind
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Transnational motherhood and economic failure: Latina immigrant domestic workers and the children they left behind by Lorena Munoz (Gender\, Women and Sexuality Studies\, University of Minnesota). \nThis presentation explores the experiences regarding family separations—a contemporary condition of transnational motherhood of Latina immigrant domestic workers as well as the children they left behind. Through well-established narratives of separation\, female immigrant domestic work is understood through multiple contradicting transnational meanings of motherhood. These discourses of transnational motherhood often frame immigrant mothers as heroic; these mothers have to leave their homes to sustain their families and communities\, while also negotiating the emotions of being ‘bad’ mothers for leaving their children behind. This study adds to these gender and immigration transnational motherhood processes by analyzing how emotions tied to economic failures at different scales\, shape the lived experiences of transnational mothers. To elaborate\, for some immigrant domestic workers and transnational mothers\, the poverty wages they receive in host countries are not sufficient to economically sustain their families and communities in sending countries. The ‘failure’ to sustain their families economically often leads to resentment among their children and extended family left behind\, that in turn can be understood and internalized by immigrant domestic workers as a personal/individual failure. As such\, immigrant mothers often blame themselves for not raising their families out of poverty instead of contextualizing economic failure as part of larger social\, economic and political structural conditions that shape global labor immigration and capitalist practices. The presentation does so by analyzing ten in-depth interviews with my relatives who currently work or have worked as Latina domestic workers in San Diego\, California\, including four of their children left behind in Mexico. In addition\, Munoz analyzed the lives of participants of this study in relation to her own experience as a daughter and granddaughter of Latina immigrant domestic workers. \nBiography \nProfessor Muñoz is an urban/cultural geographer whose research focuses on the intersections of place\, space\, gender\, sexuality\, health and race. Dr. Munoz’s transdisciplinary research agenda has been focused on Latinas/os in the global south\, particularly in the areas the (in)formal economy\, labor\, health and productive/transformative agency. Dr. Munoz’s is currently working on two interdisciplinary\, collaborative\, comparative projects. The first project is a study of informal systems of access to food\, labor and health in three different urban populations of migrant and immigrant laborers in the Global South: Colombia\, Mexico\, and the U.S. This project examines how street vending in the shadows of large-scale neoliberal development projects in (im)migrant receiving centers becomes both a sustainable mechanism of livelihood and a gendered delivery system of food\, goods\, and healing remedies for migrant laborers in Bogotá and Cancún and Latino immigrants in Los Angeles. The project focuses on the intersection of food\, health and labor in relation to street vending as well as food-way systems. The second project is a comparative study on immigration and the impact of family separations in South Africa and the United States. \nDate: Tuesday 21 August 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/transnational-motherhood-and-economic-failure-latina-immigrant-domestic-workers-and-the-children-they-left-behind/
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:20180807T123000
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SUMMARY:A hustle for profit and protection: What  informal mining reveals about  governance in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled A hustle for profit and protection: What informal mining reveals about governance in South Africa by Zaheera Jinnah (African Centre for Migration & Society\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nThis lecture builds on an in-progress book proposal which explores the lives and livelihoods of an informal community in Johannesburg\, South Africa. In doing so it raises questions that cut to the core of post-apartheid South Africa’s economy\, society\, and politics. It dismantles a rights-based\, rainbow coalition in which men and women embrace independence from colonial and apartheid oppression\, living freely as democratic and equal citizens of a proud land. Rather it points to pervasive informality\, inequality\, and risks to rights and democracy. But mostly the book attempts to paint a portrait of the everyday struggles of survival for the urban poor. \nWhat happens when the poor remain poor? What happens when they are ignored and mistreated\, especially by the authorities meant to protect them? How do people work in an economy strained by slow growth\, jobless growth\, and a labour market marked by patronage? How do we explain the relationship between land\, and its riches and the poor who are denied access to it except for their labour? \nThe narratives of the various agents in this story point to an order that is ‘upside-down’\, where police rob and lawyers cheat\, when ‘illegal’ miners rescue comrades underground while medical officials report the dying and injured to the police for arrest\, when race\, gender\, and history collide to create classes and categories of power that are wielded in extraordinary ways\, under extraordinary circumstance. \nBiography \nZaheera Jinnah joined ACMS as a researcher in 2009. Her research interests include diaspora studies\, labour migration and livelihoods.  Her PhD in anthropology was an ethnographic account of agency in Somali women’s migration and settlement in Johannesburg. Zaheera teaches the labour migration module on the MA programme\, and supervises graduate students. She is the recipient of a Volkswagen Stiftung fellowship in humanities (2017-2020). \nDate: Tuesday 7 August 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/a-hustle-for-profit-and-protection-what-informal-mining-reveals-about-governance-in-south-africa/
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:20180731T123000
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SUMMARY:Creating a domestic refugee regime in Kenya: The transfer of responsibility for refugee affairs from UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to Government of Kenya
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Creating a domestic refugee regime in Kenya: The transfer of responsibility for refugee affairs from UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to Government of Kenya by Claire Walkey (Refugee Studies Centre\, University of Oxford). \nIt is widely accepted that the protection of refugees in Africa is highly determined by host states. The everyday role and street-level activities of the African state in refugee affairs however remain under-researched. This is despite the fact the last decade has seen a move away from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) as a ‘surrogate state’ and African governments are now increasingly taking over crucial bureaucratic functions related to the management of refugee affairs. This seminar focuses on Kenya where this handover process is particularly contested and drawn out. It firstly outlines the everyday practices of the Refugee Affairs Secretariat\, within the Government of Kenya\, in registering refugees in Nairobi and the paradoxes and contradictions this mundane and routinized activity reveals about the state’s interaction with refugees. Secondly\, it discusses the impact of a UNHCR project\, ostensibly to capacity build the government\, had on government refugee registration practices and argue that it did little to facilitate the government’s independent engagement with refugee affairs and was instead an attempt by UNHCR to resolve its perennial tension between ensuring refugee protection\, respecting state sovereignty and meeting its own institutional interests. \nBiography \nClaire is a DPhil student\, affiliated to the Refugee Studies Centre. \nHer doctoral research explores the transfer of the management of refugee affairs from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to the Government of Kenya. It focuses on the re-engagement of the government in refugee affairs since 2006 and more specifically the transfer of registration and refugee status determination from UNHCR to the government. Drawing on ethnographic research\, it aims to contribute to ethnographies and theories of the African state and developmental change. \nClaire holds an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration from the University of Oxford\, an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and a BA from the University of Bristol. In mid-2018 she will be a visiting student at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand. \nShe is a recipient of a full studentship from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) UK. \nClaire is also interested in the impact of biometrics on refugee registration and co-convened a workshop entitled ‘Deconstructing Biometric Refugee Registration\, hosted by the Refugee Studies Centre\, in June 2018. \nDate: Tuesday 31 July 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/creating-a-domestic-refugee-regime-in-kenya-the-transfer-of-responsibility-for-refugee-affairs-from-un-refugee-agency-unhcr-to-government-of-kenya/
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:20180619T123000
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SUMMARY:Repoliticizing international migration narratives? Critical Reflections on the Global Forum on Migration and Development
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Repoliticizing international migration narratives? Critical reflections on the Global Forum on Migration and Development by Kudakwashe P Vanyoro (African Centre for Migration & Society\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nIn this presentation\, Kuda draws on Pécoud’s international migration narratives (IMN) as an analytical framework to examine the Global Forum on Migration and Development’s Civil Society Days (GFMD-CSD). He analyses the narratives both produced and challenged at the GFMD-CSD\, suggesting that while the GFMD-CSD poses a gentle challenge to existing IMN\, it falls short of meaningfully (re)politicizing predominant migration paradigms. This is partly due to how the forum is a fraught space that reflects and reproduces uneven power dynamics between the Global North and South\, concealing and nullifying contestations of power. Nonetheless\, the GFMD-CSD\, as a hybridized\, experimental and fluidly defined discourse-led ‘global’ space\, still functions as an important arena through which challenges to depoliticized state-led rhetoric might slowly trickle. Therefore\, Kuda concludes\, a closer interpretation of self-reflexive GFMD-CSD civil society strategies might challenge Pécoud’s conceptualization of what constitutes a ‘depoliticized’ approach to migration. \nBiography \nKuda is a Research Communications Officer and Doctoral Researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS)\, University of the Witwatersrand.  In 2013\, Kuda was awarded an International Human Rights Exchange Programme special scholarship from Bard College and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. There he acquired distinguished multidisciplinary human rights education and certification. During the course of the programme\, he served as a Communications and Advocacy Intern at the Albert Street School for Refugees in Johannesburg where he became exposed as well as interested in migration and poverty issues due to his daily interaction with Zimbabwean refugees. Kuda joined ACMS in February 2014 where he was appointed Research\, Communications and Outreach Intern. ACMS nominated him for the Migrating out of Poverty Research Internship Scheme from April to July 2014. His internship involved supporting all ACMS communications work\, preparing and packaging policy briefs\, research data capturing\, undertaking desktop research and blogging on contemporary issues related to migration and poverty in Southern Africa.  Kuda has participated and presented at various international conferences and three years iteration of the Global Forum on Migration and Development. He holds an MA in Migration & Displacement (Cum laude) from Wits University. His Doctoral thesis will explore how cross-border migrants experience quotidian waiting events at the border and what various banal modalities of waiting say about belonging\, subjectification\, and governmentality. \nDate: Tuesday 19 June 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/repoliticizing-international-migration-narratives-critical-reflections-on-the-global-forum-on-migration-and-development/
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:20180605T123000
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SUMMARY:The Role of the Church and the Challenge of Local Integration
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The role of the church and the challenge of local integration by Father Rampe Hlobo (Jesuit Refugee Services). \nWhether forced or voluntarily\, human beings have been on the move and migration has been part of their activity. The exponentially increasing numbers of (forced) migrants and refugees in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries have\, however\, more than ever before\, arguably brought the phenomenon of migration and refugees to the attention of the international and faith-based communities again. Consequently\, in trying to mitigate the challenges of those who have been forced to leave their homes\, local integration has been identified as one the solutions to the many challenges posed by migrants and refugees in host communities. This presentation explores the role of the church\, particularly the Catholic Church and its different agents as faith-based organisations and the challenge of local integration. The presentation looks at some of the perceptions of local integration\, the doctrine of the Catholic Church on migration and refugees and the challenges of local integration. \nBiography \nFr. Rampe Hlobo SJ is a Jesuit priest (Society of Jesus) working at the St Mary’s Catholic Church in Nyanga\, Cape Town. He has worked with both Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and refugees in Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) projects in South Sudan and Northern Uganda (2000). In South Africa\, he was the Advocacy and Information Officer for JRS (2000 – 2003). During his theological studies in London\, he worked as a volunteer for JRS UK (2005 – 2007). He was the Country Director for JRS South Africa (2010 – 2014). Rampe is currently a member of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) Migration group and the Africa representative in the Global Ignatian Advocacy Network (GIAN) Migration group. He holds an MA in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies. \nDate: Tuesday 5 June 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-role-of-the-church-and-the-challenge-of-local-integration/
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:20180522T123000
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SUMMARY:The Price of Hope: The Fortification of Immigrants in Johannesburg
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The price of hope: The fortification of immigrants in Johannesburg by Simbarashe Nyuke (Department of Anthropology\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nThis study explores the nuanced ways in which the immigrant in Johannesburg uses Pentecostalism as a medium to mediate the complex “sites of struggle” existing within the city of Johannesburg. By demonstrating the complex encounter of urbanism\, Pentecostalism and the immigrant\, this work also raptures the dominant discourses on religion and migration\, which one-sidedly present Pentecostalism as an all-empowering force to the immigrant. Relying heavily on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork on the experiences of Pentecostal immigrants in and of the city of Johannesburg\, Simbarashe argues that in as much as Pentecostalism is empowering to the immigrant\, Pentecostalism is in itself a “site of struggle”. He engages with Bourdieu’s concepts of field\, habitus and capital to understand the experiences of immigrants as they encounter the different social fields within the city. This study highlights that the city of Johannesburg presents for the immigrant a space with both physical and social obstacles\, which calls for the need of the realignment of the habitus. Pentecostalism then provides the complex ways through which the immigrants’ habitus is reconfigured to cope or negotiate the exigencies of life in Johannesburg. \nBiography \nSimbarashe Nyuke holds a Masters and Honours Degree in Social Anthropology from University of Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg. Currently he is doing his PhD in Anthropology with the Department of Anthropology at Witwatersrand University. His PhDthesis explores the experiences of immigrants in Johannesburg through the lens of Pentecostalism. Simbarashe is also a research intern for Society Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at Witwatersrand University\, working on a project on enchanted urbanisms. The project focuses on the role/significance of religion\, magic\, and ritualism in mediating violence (or fear thereof) in Johannesburg\, South Africa. He is also interested in childhood studies. He looked at unaccompanied immigrant children for his Master’s thesis\, social integration of immigrant children for his Honours thesis and experiences of orphans in orphanage homes for his undergraduate research.  Some of his research interests are in childhood disability studies\, religion and violence\, medical anthropology and urban studies. \nDate: Tuesday 22 May 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-price-of-hope-the-fortification-of-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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180515T123000
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SUMMARY:The Effects of Governing Unauthorized Migration on Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The effects of governing unauthorized migration on citizenship by Stefan Salomon (Institute of International Law\, University of Graz). \nTraditional international law might be characterized by maintaining a twofold strict division: a division between aliens and citizens on the one hand\, and a division between citizenship and nationality on the other. This division was doctrinal and conceptual. It materialized in boundaries of separate legal frameworks of migration and citizenship\, assuming that change occurs within each framework and that they do not overlap. Citizenship and migration\, however\, are not two separate legal frameworks but are historically and conceptually linked. Historically\, the transformation of the normative boundaries of citizenship came about by non-citizens claiming rights in the sphere of citizenship. Migration\, however\, is already defined by techniques of governance. Governance of unauthorized migration conceptually links citizens and non-citizens: control of the latter occurs in the name of the former. As governance of migration is spatially ‘outsourced’ to the territories of other states and ‘insourced’ into the midst of the polity\, citizenship itself turns into an object of governance. \nBiography \nStefan Salomon is lecturer at the Institute of International Law at the University of Graz (Austria)\, where he is the founder and head of the Refugee Law Clinic. Previously\, he worked at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a European Union agency. His research focuses primarily on international and European refugee and migration law\, human rights law\, and legal theory. Stefan currently works on a research project on how transnational governance of irregular migration transforms citizenship. In a second research project\, he looks at the production of territory in international and EU law. Stefan regularly contributes to various newspapers as freelance journalist. Stefan’s research is funded by a research grant of the Austrian Sciences Fund. \nDate: Tuesday 15 May 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-effects-of-governing-unauthorized-migration-on-citizenship/
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 across borders: from global to local experiences and perspectives
DESCRIPTION:The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) in collaboration with the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) will host a workshop on Wednesday\, 9 May 2018 at SAIIA’s head office\, during which panellists will explore how international developments related to migration are affecting the African continent and the Southern African region. Inputs will focus on the United Nations-led process of the Global Compact for Safe\, Orderly and Regular Migration and its attempts to create an international framework for improved and enhanced migration management. Discussions will centre on both the feasibility of such an initiative and the African response to these issues. \nThe second half of the workshop will explore regional and domestic perspectives on migration. Panelists will discuss the similarities and differences between Africa’s regional economic blocs towards migration management\, specifically the approaches of the Southern African Development Community and the East African Community. Thereafter\, presenters will explore specific in-country case studies of migration management at a domestic level\, while also engaging with the intersectionality between migration management and health policies. \nThis workshop aims to bring together academics\, policymakers\, and stakeholders to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing migration management at a domestic and international level. It will include presentations from Asmita Parshotam\, representing SAIIA\, and Professor Jo Vearey and DrJean-Pierre Misago\, representing the ACMS\, together with other African experts. \n\nDate:   Wednesday\, 9 May 2018\nTime:   08h30 for 09h00 – 1:00pm\nVenue: SAIIA\, Jan Smuts House\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg\n\nRSVP: To register please click HERE\n  \nEnquiries: Hanneke van der Westhuizen at hanneke.vanderwesthuizen@wits.ac.za
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/migration-across-borders-from-global-to-local-experiences-and-perspectives/
LOCATION:SAIIA\, Jan Smuts House\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180508T123000
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SUMMARY:Pentecosmopolis: Lagos and its Pentecostalisms
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Pentecosmopolis: Lagos and its Pentecostalisms by Dr. Obvious Katsaura (Senior Lecturer\, Department of Sociology\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nBased on an ethnography of Lagos – one of the most Pentecostal cities in the world – this presentation develops the conceptual metaphors of ‘Pentecosmopolis’ and ‘pentecosmopolitanism’ to capture the role of Pentecostalisms in the crafting of urban diversities and vibrancies. The presentation disbands the ideas of Pentecosmopolis and pentecosmopolitanism into three derivative and interconnected sub-concepts of ‘pentecosmopolitan spatialities’\, ‘pentecosmopolitan lifeworlds’ and ‘pentecosmopolitan practices’. The sub-concept of pentecosmopolitan spatialities analyses the role of Pentecostalisms in the diversification and complexification of the spatial character\nand life of the city. That of pentecosmopolitan lifeworlds explicates the place of Pentecostalisms in the making of urban imaginations relating to domains and ecologies of spirits\, beliefs and symbolisms. The translation of pentecosmopolitan lifeworlds into economic\, social and political practices is analysed through the sub-concept of pentecosmopolitan practices. This study\, thus\, contributes to the projects of ‘religionising urban theory’ and ‘urbanising theories of religion’. \nBiography \nDr. Obvious Katsaura is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. He previously worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe from 2008 to 2010. His current research interests lie more broadly in Urban and Regional Sociology with a specific focus on Religion and African Urbanisms\, Violence and Urban Safety\, Urban Politics and Governance\, Minority Groups and City Life. He also has research interests in Political Sociology and Conflict Minerals in Africa. From 2010 – 2012\, he worked within an international research group focusing on “Urban Violence in sub-Saharan Africa: Its Impacts\, Coping Strategies and Peace Building”\, which led to his doctoral degree. He is currently working on a 3- year research project entitled “Violence and Enchanted Urbanisms: Magico-Religion\, Ritualism and Mediation of Violence in Johannesburg” with financial support from the Volkswagen Foundation. \nDate: Tuesday 8 May 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/pentecosmopolis-lagos-and-its-pentecostalisms/
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:20180417T123000
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SUMMARY:Why Europe should NOT serve as best practice: A critical view on how Europe tries to approach the continuous movement of refugees to Europe
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Why Europe should NOT serve as best practice: A critical view on how Europe tries to approach the continuous movement of refugees to Europe by Ulrich Stege (International University College of Turin). \nAs many other regions in the world\, also Europe has faced a significant growth of asylum seekers and refugees in the recent years. Often this phenomenon is referred to as the “European Refugee Crisis”. Although the growth in numbers of asylum seekers and refugees is a fact\, this situation should however be better named as the “Crisis of the European Asylum System”. We can indeed observe\, that the current practice in relation to asylum is characterised by a large and growing gap between the humanitarian or human rights rhetoric of the European states and their actual behaviour. \nWhile there are certainly a number of elements of the Common European Asylum System\, which could be considered as best or at least interesting practices\, this presentation however will focus on the demonstration of why the current asylum practice in Europe is failing to achieve its aims and therefore should not be considered a positive example for other regions of the world (including South Africa). In this regard\, the following three major problems will be highlighted and possible alterative solution will be discussed: \n\n20 years after its signature\, the so-called Dublin system – that establishes a preliminary verification procedure related to the determination of the single country in Europe which is responsible to examine the asylum application on its merits – limit considerably the access to asylum and achieves very little at very high costs both for the protection of asylum seekers and for the functioning of the European Asylum System. In addition\, the current approaches to externalise the asylum procedure outside Europe\, raises a number of questions related to the effective access to asylum in Europe.\nIdentification of asylum seekers: As a response to the migratory flows that Europe is witnessing\, the European Agenda on Migration introduced the “hotspot approach” as the model of operational support to Member States faced with disproportionate migratory pressure. It has been implemented in Greece and Italy as a first level of “filtering” with the aims to channel the arrivals of mixed migration flows and to apply the pre-identification\, registration\, photo and fingerprinting operations. In both countries\, the hotspot practice has been widely criticized by many NGOs and Civil Society organisations. Concerns have been expressed about the hotspot’s conditions\, the factual use of detention\, the use of coercive measures for the aim of identification etc.\nReturn of irregular migrants: One of the political priorities for European Member States right now is to demonstrate of being capable to enforce negative asylum decisions and effectively return irregular migrants. But by doing this\, the European Union and its Member States are signing bi-lateral readmission agreements with countries like Afghanistan\, Turkey\, Sudan\, Libya etc.\, where a save return of the migrants is far from being ensured.\n\nBiography \nUlrich Stege is an International University College of Turin (IUC) (www.iuctorino.it) Faculty Member\, Member of the IUC Academic Coordination\, Director of the IUC Clinic Legal Education Program and currently Extraordinary Lecturer at the Law Clinic of the University of Pretoria (South Africa). He studied law in Germany\, France and Belgium. For several years\, he has been practicing as a qualified lawyer in Italy and Germany (admitted to the Bar in Germany and Italy)\, and has acted as speaker\, expert and trainer in numerous conferences\, international expert groups and Training of Trainers (mainly related to European Law\, Asylum and Immigration Law\, Clinical Legal Education\, etc.). In addition\, he served as evaluator of different EU funding projects (for example related to Child Friendly Justice). He is founding member and Executive Secretary of the ENCLE (European Network for Clinical Legal Education)\, Steering Committee member of the GAJE (Global Alliance for Justice Education) and member of ASGI (Associazione per gli Studi Giuridici sull’Immigrazione) and the Migration Law Network (Germany). \nDate: Tuesday 17 April 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/why-europe-should-not-serve-as-best-practice-a-critical-view-on-how-europe-tries-to-approach-the-continuous-movement-of-refugees-to-europe/
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:20180403T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180403T133000
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SUMMARY:Gathering family histories from migrants and the women left behind: A methods perspective
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Gathering family histories from migrants and the women left behind: A methods perspective by Grascious Ncube (Development Studies\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nWithin the growing scholarship on transnational migration\, the methodological approaches and time perspective employed in these studies have received some criticism. One of the major critiques is that research tends to focus more on the transmigrants (those who move) and neglects those who remain behind. In addition\, studies have failed to trace processes of intergenerational flows in migrant families over multiple generations\, thus failing to incorporate family migration trajectories from a historical perspective. Indeed\, relatively few migration studies are anchored on tracing the historical interactions and dynamics of migrant families and some criticisms have been levelled against the methodological approaches used by these studies. For example\, these have been criticised for proffering situational realities based on individuals’ narratives whose standpoints are fluid and shaped by the continual changes in their context. This issue questions the adequacy\, authenticity and epistemological validity of the reality presented in these family history accounts. This presentation addresses  some of these criticisms through the use of multi-sited ethnography to incorporate the realities of those who migrate as well as those who stay behind. The research gathered histories from left behind family members in Tsholotsho in the Matabeleland North Province of Zimbabwe – the majority of these are women – and migrant members from Tsholotsho residing in Johannesburg\, South Africa \, to assess the contemporary changes and historical continuities within families in the context of sustained cross-border migration. Grascious reflects on the methodological implications derived from gathering these family histories from both sides of the transnational continuum. She discusses the different ways of conceptualising families\, from the perspectives of the women left behind and from the migrants’ perspectives. In doing so\, she argues that reconstructing family history in the context of transmigration requires not just an account of one history but of many histories emanating from intersections of different families all conglomerated to form one family through the eyes of the history teller.  Family history perspectives on migration challenge the patrilineal configuration of families. Methodological challenges associated with family histories in the context of migration need to address the spatial dimension of those who have moved and those left behind. \nBiography \nGracsious Maviza (nee Ncube) is a registered PhD Fellow in the department of Development Studies\, Wits. Her research focus is on assessing the contemporary changes and historical continuities within families in the context of sustained cross-border migration in the Matabeleland North Province of Zimbabwe. She is also a Research Fellow with the Institute of Development Studies of The National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe. She has a number of publications in the fields of migration\, livelihoods\, gender\, food security and local economic development in peer reviewed journals. She holds an MA in Development Studies majoring in Local and Regional Development from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS) in The Hague\, The Netherlands and a BSc honours in Sociology from the University of Zimbabwe. \nDate: Tuesday 3 April 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/gathering-family-histories-from-migrants-and-the-women-left-behind-a-methods-perspective/
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:20180323T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180323T133000
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SUMMARY:Immigration and the labor market outcomes of natives in developing countries: A case study of South Africa
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Immigration and the Labor Market Outcomes of Natives in Developing Countries: A Case Study of South Africa by Nzinga Broussard (Millennium Challenge Corporation). \nUsing South African census data from 2001\, 2007\, and 2011\, Nzinga examines the effect that immigration had on labor market outcomes of native-born black South Africans. Using instrumental variables to control for the potential endogenous location choices of immigrants to South Africa\, the results show that immigrant inflows decreased the employment-to- population ratios and total annual income of black native-born South Africans. Additionally\, results suggest a negative effect of immigrant inflows on the employment ratio and total annual income of black native-born South Africans employed in the formal sector. Results show that immigration caused an intersectoral employment shift. For black male South Africans\, the composition of the employed labor force shifted to the formal sector\, and for black female South Africans\, the composition of the employed labor force shifted to the informal sector. \nBiography  \nDr. Nzinga Broussard is an applied micro-economist with over nine years of experience in the areas of development\, labor\, and agricultural economics. She has several publications in peer-reviewed journals on rural poverty\, international migration\, labor market outcomes\, and food insecurity. Dr. Broussard has professional experience in academia\, the private sector\, and the public sector. She is currently an economist at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)\, an independent U.S. foreign aid agency\, where she conducts economic analysis to identify potential areas for development assistance to facilitate growth and investment in poor countries. \nDate: Friday 23 March 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/immigration-and-the-labor-market-outcomes-of-natives-in-developing-countries-a-case-study-of-south-africa/
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:20180320T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180320T133000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142910Z
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SUMMARY:Do Migrants matter? A Comparative Analysis of the Causes of Death Among Sub-Saharan Immigrants and Local South Africans\, 2009-2015
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Do Migrants Matter? A Comparative Analysis of the Causes of Death Among Sub-Saharan Immigrants and Local South Africans\, 2009-2015 by Lorena Nunez Carrasco (Department of Sociology\, University of the Witwatersrand); Abha Jaiswal (Research and Information System for Developing Countries); Michel K. Muteba (School of Public Health\, University of the Witwatersrand) and Jairo Arrow (Statistics South Africa). \nMigrants form an integral part of South Africa. In line with South Africa’s status as a signatory of the Refugees Act\, migrants have been included in the population that will receive basic health care services under the National Health Insurance (NHI). Understanding the burden of disease of migrants will play a significant role in the sustainability of NHI. Against this backdrop\, this presentation analyses the causes of death registered by Statistics South Africa  (Stats SA) for the years 2009 to 2015 and compares African migrants from four countries with the largest population in the country (Lesotho\, Malawi\, Mozambique and Zimbabwe\,) and local South Africans. Initial findings show a much higher percentage of unnatural deaths among foreign nationals from these countries when compared with the local population. Using the CDC10 coding and in line with the Global Burden of Disease\, the researchers used the data provided by Stats SA and grouped in three categories namely\, deaths due to i) communicable diseases\, neonatal and nutritional diseases ii) non-communicable diseases\, and iii) external causes\, namely violence and trauma. \nSummary measures\, frequencies and proportions were used to describe and compare causes of death among South Africans and African immigrants aged between 5 and 65 years old. Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) were calculated to compare premature mortality among immigrants and South African citizens. \nStandardized annual average YPLL rate per 1000 inhabitants was estimated at 23.07 for South Africans and of 27.59 for African immigrants. A higher YPLL rate for African immigrants was found in the categories of death due to non-communicable disease and death due to violence and trauma.  These findings need to be seen in the light of social determinants of health\, the rights and the entitlements approach. Overall migrants heightened death rates are related to the impact of contextual factors such as living and working conditions and barriers to access health care that migrants face. More specifically\, migrants heightened death rates due to violence and trauma should be interpreted in light of the xenophobic sentiments observed in the country over the last decade. A perspective on these deaths argues for the need to attend to their everyday occurrence\, often not accounted for in reports of xenophobic violence in South Africa. These finding will have larger implications for health policy and planning in the country and NHI in particular. \nDate: Tuesday 20 March 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/do-migrants-matter-a-comparative-analysis-of-the-causes-of-death-among-sub-saharan-immigrants-and-local-south-africans-2009-2015/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180314
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SUMMARY:Youth on the move: Reframing and representing youth migration
DESCRIPTION:Today\, youth migration is becoming an increasingly important phenomenon in the field of transnational migration studies. Yet\, migration scholarship and immigration law continue to presume that migrants are first and foremost adult actors making relatively autonomous consensual decisions to become mobile. When youth migration is discussed\, it is often normatively assumed that parental neglect or a breakdown in parental care are the cause. Adults are frequently seen as the primarydecision-makers and providers for children and\, thus\, are often responsible—or culpable—for a young person’s migration. The corresponding position of the child as inferior or somehow exclusively dependent on parents stands in marked contrast to the integral roles children often assume in familial decision-making processes\, as well as to the decisions they make as social actors and migrants in their own right. \nThis interdisciplinary conference seeks to disrupt the adult bias in migration literature by uniting emerging and established scholars and practitioners to investigate both the conceptual and territorial migration of children and youth across diverse international contexts. Hosted by the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, and co-sponsored by the Migration and Health Project (maHp) and the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG)\, this conference promises to engage a wide field of debate and produce some new ways of moving forward with the research agenda on youth migration. \nWe cordially invite you to attend this conference on Friday\, 13 April 2018. Conference registration is free\, but advanced registration is required. More detailed information regarding location and time will be sent to those who register. \nPlease RSVP here by 30 March. 
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/youth-on-the-move-reframing-and-representing-youth-migration/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180306T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180306T133000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142909Z
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SUMMARY:The Regional Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The Regional Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa presented by Dr Romola Adeola (Postdoctoral Researcher\, African Centre for Migration & Society\, University of the Witwatersrand). \nInternal displacement has emerged as a pertinent challenge in Africa. Yearly\, millions of people are internally displaced on the continent due to conflict and other factors.  With the reality that more than half of the continent was internally displaced in the early 2000s\, African leaders developed the Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa in 2009. This presentation examines the content of this framework\, regional developments towards its realization and some key challenges that must be addressed in fostering compliance of states with the legal framework. \nBiography \nDr Romola Adeola is a lawyer with expertise in international law specifically in areas of migration\, refugee protection\, development and human rights law and policy. She has lectured and presented at various conferences on the protection of refugees\, internally displaced persons and migrants at various Universities. She has served extensively as a consultant for governments and international institutions on issues of migration. She has a Doctorate in Law and Masters (Cum Laude) from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She was previously a Steinberg Fellow in International Migration Law and Policy at McGill University\, Montreal\, Canada and teaches international migration law and policy. \nDate: Tuesday 6 March 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-regional-protection-of-internally-displaced-persons-in-africa/
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:20180226T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180226T133000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142909Z
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SUMMARY:The Safe Country Concept in International Agreements: Past\, Present and Future of State Practice
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The Safe Country Concept in International Agreements: Past\, Present and Future of State Practice presented by María-Teresa Gil-Bazo (Senior Lecturer in Law and Convenor of Newcastle University Research Group on International Studies in Forced Migration). \nOne of the expressions of international cooperation among States in the field of refugee protection is the adoption of international agreements that implement the “safe country” concept. This presentation examines the legal background to these concepts and State practice by considering three select case studies: South Africa\, Spain and the US. The presentation analyses the legal implications and significance of issues arising and provides a critique of the system and its premises. In particular\, the presentation considers whether a multilateral arrangement – such as the Dublin III Regulation or the Canada-US Agreement – has the potential to become a model for the development of an inter-State agreement whereby one of the State Parties effectively delivers all relevant international obligations (including the right to asylum) on behalf of all States bound by such system. The dual nature of the system is analysed\, as an operational instrument creating obligations between States while at the same time allowing for the delivery of States’ international obligations towards refugees. \nBiography \nDr María-Teresa Gil-Bazo is Senior Lecturer in Law at Newcastle Law School\, where she teaches Public International Law\, EU Law\, and The Movement of Persons in a Global World. She is also Member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College\, Senior Research Associate at the School of Advanced Studies (University of London)\, Fellow of the European Law Institute (Vienna)\, and External Expert of the EU Asylum Office (EASO). Dr Gil-Bazo qualified as a lawyer in 1993 and is Member of the Spanish Bar Council. \nDate: Monday 26 February 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-safe-country-concept-in-international-agreements-past-present-and-future-of-state-practice/
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:20180209T093000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180209T110000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142908Z
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SUMMARY:Lagos Budding 50: Storytelling project on Migration and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled Lagos Budding 50: Storytelling project on Migration and Resilience presented by Helen Gebregiorgis (Project Manager\, African Photo Stories). \nInspired by the May 2017 ‘Lagos @ 50 Celebrations’ highlighting prominent and influential Lagosians\, Lagos: Budding 50  is a visual storytelling project that honours and recognises the contributions of young\, everyday Lagosians in the development of the megacity. Different storytelling methods were utilized throughout the interviews with participants\, such as photography\, videography\, and audio recording. \nThrough exploration of identity\, migration and resilience\, Lagos: Budding 50 celebrates the stories of diverse\, ambitious and resilient young Lagosians as they strive to better themselves and their communities. The project is inspired by and dedicated to the people of Lagos. \nStriving to contribute towards a balanced perspective of Africa\, the Africa Photo Stories website is an initiative to build bridges of connection between the global community and the African community through storytelling methods\, one story at a time. \nBiography \nHelen Gebregiorgis is a visual storyteller\, passionate about Africa\, peace-building\, and human connection. It wasn’t until her first trip to the continent\, that she truly understood that Africa was more than just a handful of stories. It was greater than she could ever have imagined. During her first visit\, she gained deeper insight into the complexity and beauty of humanity and human connection. The places she travelled\, the stories she heard\, and the people she met\, affected her greatly\, that even her story began to change. \nDate: Friday 9 February 2018 \nTime: 9.30 -11.00 \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/lagos-budding-50-storytelling-project-on-migration-and-resilience/
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:20180205T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180205T133000
DTSTAMP:20260803T142908Z
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SUMMARY:The Meanings of Women’s Mobilities: Gender Ideals and Female Mobility in West Africa
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series\, the African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a seminar titled The Meanings of Women’s Mobilities: Gender Ideals and Female Mobility in West Africa presented by Dr Gunvor Jónsson (Departmental Lecturer\, Oxford Department of International Development\, University of Oxford). \nDespite increasing global attention to women’s involvement in migration in recent decades\, very little research has looked at Malian women’s different forms of mobility\, beyond the “rural exodus” from the countryside into towns. Gunvor’s fieldwork in Dakar\, the capital of Senegal\, focused on both mobile and settled female traders from Mali\, the neighbouring country. Many of these women were heads of their own households; many were single – unmarried\, divorced\, widowed. In this presentation she will look at the various mobilities that these and other Malian women were engaged in\, to examine the kinds of meanings and experiences they were associated with. She will start by discussing the role of local Islamic\, patriarchal and Mande ideals in relation to women’s mobilities. Gunvor then moves on to examine the kinds of mobilities that were associated with womanhood\, focusing specifically on how conceptions of womanhood were linked to liminal or perpetual conditions of strangerhood. By looking at the different meanings of women’s mobilities she argues that it becomes possible to explore not only what “ideal femininity” looked like but also\, to consider alternative femininities and the changing discourses on gender. \nBiography \nDr Gunvor Jónsson is a Departmental Lecturer in Migration and Development at the Oxford Department of International Development\, University of Oxford. She is a founding member of IMIn (the International Migration Institute network\, www.imi-n.org) and Review Editor of Migration & Society (Berghahn Journals). She is a trained anthropologist and holds a PhD from SOAS (University of London); an MA from Copenhagen; and undergraduate degrees from the University of Pretoria. Gunvor specialises in migration and mobilities in Africa\, and the anthropology of West Africa (Mali/Senegal). \nDate: Monday 5 February 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-meanings-of-womens-mobilities-gender-ideals-and-female-mobility-in-west-africa/
LOCATION:ACMS Seminar Room 2163\, South East Wing\, Second Floor\, Solomon Mahlangu House\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:Social cohesion and violence prevention symposium
DESCRIPTION:South Africa is a place of many contradictions\, conflicts\, and tensions\, including but not limited to racism\, sexism\, and xenophobia. Since the 2000s\, the term “social cohesion” has been used as something of a catchall ideal\, to which these are all an affront. As common as the term is\, it does not rest on a clear analysis of why social tensions exist\, or what is to be done about those that do. So far\, social cohesion has proved both elusive and resistant to official encouragement. \nThe GCRO and the South African Research Chair in Mobility and the Politics of Difference at ACMS\, in partnership\, are undertaking a programme of research into the empirics of violence prevention\, based on previous work on social cohesion. As part of the preparation for this programme a ‘State of Knowledge Symposium’ will bring together academics and practitioners working on problems of social tension\, and particularly those that manifest as violence\, in an academic setting. The interest of this workshop is to interrogate the kinds of interventions that are being deployed to address this field of social problems\, with a particular focus on anti-violence work. \nSome initial questions include: \n● To what extent do those who run various interventions articulate a theory of change\, which conceptualises how their intervention will ‘work’ to achieve the goals they have in mind? \n● What goals do those running interventions hope to achieve? \n● What do they think are the specific causes of violence and related problems? \n● Why were specific methodologies and approaches chosen for particular interventions (over alternative methodologies)? \n● How has the thinking of implementing agents shifted over time in relation to a particular approach they are pursuing? \n● To what extent have studies done to establish the impact of particular interventions (e.g. M&E)? \n● What are the major opportunities that various actors\, including government\, should be exploiting to reduce violence and the potential for violence? \nDate: Monday 22 January 2018 \nTime: 8.30 -16.30 \nVenue: Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/social-cohesion-and-violence-prevention-symposium/
LOCATION:Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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SUMMARY:MoVE 2017: Two Arts-based Research Projects
DESCRIPTION:The MoVE project of the African Centre for Migration & Society is holding an exhibition that showcases two visual and narrative research projects conducted in 2016 and 2017.  Both projects involved collaboration with the MoVE Project and the Sisonke Sex Worker Movement. We feature an exhibition of The Sex Worker Poster Project: a poster conducted with persons who sell sex in Mpumalanga\, and an exhibition of the sex worker newsletter project entitled\, Izwi Lethu: Our Voices. \nOpening remarks: Judy Seidman on the history of posters in activism in South Africa \nJudy Seidman is a cultural worker and visual artist. Between 1980 and 1985\, Judy worked with the Medu Art Ensemble in Gaborone\, Botswana\, to make posters for the liberation struggle in South Africa. Since then she has worked as a curator\, facilitator and freelance designer\, for various social movements\, including the trade unions\, AIDS campaigns\, Curriculum Development Project\, Khulumani Support Group\,  the 1in9 Campaign and the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce. \nDate:    Tuesday 21 November 2017 \nTime:    14:30 \nVenue:  Workers Museum\, Newtown\, Johannesburg \nThe exhibition will run until 20 December 2017.
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/move-2017-two-arts-based-research-projects/
LOCATION:Workers’ Museum\, Jeppe Street\, Newtown\, Johannesburg
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171109T160000
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SUMMARY:Soft infrastructure: Recalibrating aesthetics\, economies\, and urban epistemologies
DESCRIPTION:The Academy for African Urban Diversity; a joint initiative of the African Centre for Migration & Society; the African Centre for Cities; and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity invites you to a special public lecture by Dr Mpho Matsipa (Wits City Institute\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg). \nA city like Johannesburg offers a glimpse into how immigration\, black female sexuality and shifts in urban retail economies provide important economic and cultural resources to urban residents and users. By exploring black cultural practices\, like braiding\, as both ontology and epistemology\, the lecture will explore how such practices recalibrate local economies\, infrastructures\, and aesthetic codes\, and thus might co-constitute emergent urban identities and a way of knowing the city. The intimate\, networked\, and fractal nature of black hair braiding spaces disrupts the rigid colonial spatial orders of the city and its architecture. \nHowever\, can such soft infrastructures sufficiently disrupt the grand narrative of African cities in ‘crisis’\, while also disrupting colonial and colonizing cartographies of African urban environment? \nBiography \nDr Mpho Matsipa is a researcher at the Wits City Institute. After completing her professional degree in Architecture at the University of Cape Town\, with a distinction in design\, Mpho was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and later\, a Carnegie Grant as a graduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her PhD in Architecture\, from the University of California\, Berkeley\, is titled The Order of Appearances explored the entangled geographies of urban informality\, urban redevelopment and the politics of race\, gender and aesthetics in Johannesburg’s inner city. Mpho has written critical essays and reviews on public art\, culture and space for Art South Africa\, the Architectural Review and Thesis 11 (forthcoming). \nMpho has worked as an architect and she has been shortlisted in two prestigious national design competitions. She has curated several exhibitions\, including of the South Africa Pavilion at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition\, Venice Biennale (2008).She has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture and associate research scholar at Columbia GSAPP and Curator of Studio-X Johannesburg –  an experimental public platform on architecture and the city sponsored by Columbia University. She is currently co-curating a pan-African architecture exhibition at the Architecture Museum in Munich titled “African Mobilities: This is not a Refugee Camp Exhibition”\, that will open in April 2018. \nFor more information and to RSVP: info@migration.org.za \nDate:    Thursday 9 November 2017 \nTime:    16:00 to 17:30 \nVenue:  Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, East Campus\, University of the Witwatersrand
URL:https://migration.org.za/acms-event/soft-infrastructure-recalibrating-aesthetics-economies-and-urban-epistemologies/
LOCATION:Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, University of the Witwatersrand East Campus
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