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Misreading mobility?: Bureaucratic politics and blindness in the United Nations’ migration reports
A journal article by Prof Loren Landau and Prof Tendayi Achiume 2015 marked a dramatic shift in global discourse on international...
Historicising ‘irregular’ migration from Senegal to Europe
A journal article by Dr Stephanie Maher Contemporary discourses on migration from West Africa to Europe tend to frame migrants as victims...
Politics by other means? The political economy of xenophobic violence in post-apartheid South Africa
A journal article by Dr JP Misago Misago, J.P. 2017. Politics by other means? The political economy of xenophobic violence in...
Why religion? Immigrant groups as objects of political claims on immigration and civic integration in Western Europe, 1995–2009
A journal article by Dr Joost Berkhout and Dr Didier Ruedin Under which circumstances do politicians differentiate among immigrants? When...
Stealth Humanitarianism: Negotiating Politics, Precarity and Performance Management in Protecting the Urban Displaced
A journal article by Dr Caroline Wanjiku Kihato and Prof Loren Landau Post-cold-war-era conflicts and the humanitarian political economy...
Beggaring belonging in Africa’s no-man’s lands: diversity, usufruct and the ethics of accommodation
A journal article by Prof Loren Landau and Dr Iriann Freemantle In the migrant rich peri-urban sites of Rongai, Kenya and Katlehong, South...
Responding to Xenophobic Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Barking Up the Wrong Tree?
A journal article by Dr JP Misago This paper highlights the general failure to effectively respond to and prevent xenophobic violence in...
Cross-Border Mobility, Violence and Spiritual Healing in Beitbridge District, Zimbabwe
A journal article by Dr Francis Musoni This article examines the significance and contestations surrounding some small huts, which are...
Detention as an Instrument of Control: Security Rhetoric and the Legitimization of Illegality in South Africa
A journal article by Dr Roni Amit Around the globe, government policymakers have characterised detention as an effective way to keep track...
