Staff
Loren B. Landau (Prof.) is the Director of the Forced Migration Studies Programme (FMSP) 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
Roni Amit is a Post-Doctoral fellow at FMSP 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.
Tesfalem Araia joined the FMSP in 2007. He works as a monitoring researcher in the Migrant Policy and Practice Initiative. With a background in history, political science and international relations, his research interests are migrant rights, advocacy, and immigration policies.
Véronique Gindrey is the statistics resource person for the FMSP. She analyses new forms of mobility in Southern Africa using the population censuses, regional surveys and administrative data. She assists researchers and students using migration statistics and teaches part of the quantitative methods course.
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.
Christine Ludl earned her PhD in political science / political sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin and at Sciences Po Paris and joined the FMSP in 2008. Her current project explores the concrete and imaginary dimensions of transit of West African migrants in South Africa.
Jean Pierre Misago has been with the FMSP since 2004. He is currently a researcher with the Migrant 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.
Mpumi Mnqapu is Projects and Publicity Manager for the Forced Migration Studies Programme. She coordinates events, communicates and disseminate information and is responsible for FMSP's public relations.
Tamlyn Monson is a researcher within the Migrant Policy and Practice Initiative and editor of the project’s outputs. She has an interdisciplinary background, with an MA in applied linguistics from the University of London and a number of publications in journals of contemporary literature.
Lorena Núñez is a social anthropologist with an specialization in medical anthropology. She has extensive experience in the fields of gender and development as well as of migration and health.
Ingrid Palmary is a senior researcher and coordinator of the Gender, Violence and Displacement Initiative at the FMSP. 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 has been with FMSP 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).
Jo Vearey has been with the FMSP since 2007. She is a Doctoral Research Fellow in the Health and Migration Initiative, undertaking a PhD through the School of Public Health at 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 and coordinates a two-year study entitled International Policing, Mobility and Crime in South Africa, funded by the Open Society Found
Aurelia Wa Kabwe-Segatti holds a PhD in Political Science and an MA in African Studies majoring (political science) from the Centre of African Studies (CEAN – Bordeaux). Her thesis was devoted to the transformation of South
African immigration policy in the post-apartheid period.
Zaheera joined FMSP 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.