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ACMS Staff.
Loren B. Landau (Prof.) is the Director of the African Centre for Migration and Society at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. With a background in political science and development studies, his work focuses on human mobility, development, and sovereignty.
Akanni I. Akinyemi (PhD) joined the African Centre for Migration & Society at in May, 2011 as a post-doctoral fellow. He has a PhD in Demography and Social Statistics and before joining ACMS was a Senior Lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria.
Roni Amit is a Post-Doctoral fellow at ACMS and has a background in International Human Rights Law. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Washington and a Law Degree from New York University. Her research focuses on rights protection, administrative justice, legal processes and developments in the areas of refugee rights and detention.
Padma Dayah joined ACMS as Student Liaison Officer in December 2010. With a background in nursing and management, previous work experience has been in the health field for government, private, corporate and nongovernmental organizations as a Registered Nurse, Manager and HIV Programmes Coordinator
Scott Drimie leads a research and facilitation consultancy with regional associates focusing on food security, food systems and livelihood issues in Southern Africa. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University where he chairs the Advisory Board of the University’s Food Security Initiative.
Iriann obtained her PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2010. Her doctoral research explored the ways in which African migrants in Johannesburg establish cosmopolitan 'counter-discourses' and practices in response to South African nationalism and xenophobia. Before studying at Wits, she completed an M.Sc.
Vanya Gastrow holds a BA LLB from the University of Cape Town and has recently completed a masters dissertation on Hannah Arendt’s political theory. Vanya’s research focuses on exploring the ability of foreign shopkeepers to access justice when they are victims of crime and xenophobia.
Zaheera joined ACMS as a researcher in 2009. Her research interests include advocacy, social networks and the politics of migration. She is working on a Civil Society Mobilisation project funded by Hivos, which seeks to understand how migrants access rights in 4 cities in Southern Africa.
Lenore Longwe has a degree in Public Administration from the University of the Western Cape. Her previous employment includes project administrator at Umsubomvu Youth Fund and Admin Coordinator at Robben Island Museum. She joined Wits University in 2006 at the Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Project and subsequent to that she joined FMSP in January 2009.
Sharon Mina Olago joined ACMS in February 2011 as Communications Officer, Migrating Out of Poverty, RPC. Her previous work is based in Kenya where she has developed and implemented communication strategies and plans for various organizations working on change objectives for disability rights, HIV awareness and entrepreneurship development.
Jean Pierre Misago has been with the ACMS since 2004. He is currently a researcher with the Migration Policy and Practice Inititative. With a background is in Education Sciences, Psychology, Forced Migration and Humanitarian Assistance, his research explores the effects of displacement on identity and belonging.
Lorena Núñez is a Medical Anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society. With extensive experience in the fields of gender and development and of migration and health, she is currently working in the Migration, Displacement and Health project at ACMS.
Ingrid Palmary is a senior researcher and coordinator of the Gender, Violence and Displacement Initiative at the ACMS. She has written in the area of domestic and political violence, women in armed conflict and post-conflict reconstruction and feminist research methods.
Tara Polzer Ngwato has been with ACMS since 2002, and is a Senior Researcher with an interdisciplinary background in Social and Political Science (Cambridge) and Development Studies (London School of Economics and Political Science).
Marlise is a visiting researcher at ACMS and is currently enrolled for a PhD in public health at the International Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Ghent (Belgium). Her research focuses on health and human rights, with a particular focus on sex work and sexual and reproductive health rights.
Aurelia Segatti holds a PhD in Political Science and an MA in African Studies majoring (political science) from the Centre of African Studies (CEAN – Bordeaux).
Jo Vearey has been based with the Health and Migration Initiative at FMSP since 2007 where she conducts research, teaches and supervises graduate students. Jo has a background in Public Health and completed her PhD through the School of Public Health, Wits.
Darshan Vigneswaran coordinates the Immigration Enforcement and the State in Africa initiative, co-coordinates an EU-funded Network of Excellence in Qualitative Research with partners in the UK, Ghana and Accra, edits the Migration Methods and Field Notes Series.
Alex is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Germany. He joined ACMS in August 2011 as a visiting researcher as part of the Global Divercities project.
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow working with the Migration, Displacement and Health project at the ACMS. Matthew completed his doctorate in Development Studies at the University of Oxford in 2011. The doctorate was a qualitative study focused on the sociality and sustainability of HIV/AIDS treatment in internally displaced communities in Northern Uganda.