Darshan Vigneswaran
Senior Researcher

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. He also coordinates a two-year study entitled International Policing, Mobility and Crime in South Africa, funded by the Open Society Foundation. He completed his doctorate, entitled The Contours of Control: A Study of European Territoriality at Monash University in 2005. In 2008 he was a British Academy Fellow at the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, where he serves as the Reviews Editor on the Working Paper Series. In 2009 he was appointed Associate Researcher at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, where he co-coordinates a research and training workshop series on Migration and Forced Labour in Southern Africa.

Publications

Vigneswaran, D., & Sutton R. (In Press).  A Suspended Sentence: Administrative Limbo in South Africa's Deportation System. Citizenship Studies.
Vigneswaran, D., Sutton R., & Wels H. (In Press).  Waiting in Liminal Space: Migrants' Queuing for Home Affairs in South Africa. Anthropology Southern Africa.
[Anonymous] (In Press).  Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa, Africa . (Darshan Vigneswaran, Joel Quirk, Ed.).
Vigneswaran, D. (2011).  Incident reporting: a technique for studying police corruption. Policing & Society. 21(1), 190-213.
Vigneswaran, D. (2011).  Migration Control, Documentation, and State Transformation. (Aurelia Segatti, Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Contemporary Migration to South Africa: A Regional Development Issue. 105-120.
Vigneswaran, D. (2011).  ‘Separation Anxiety’: The Historical Origins of Xenophobia in the SAPS . (Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Exorcising the Demons within: Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa .
Sutton, R., & Vigneswaran D. (2011).  A Kafkaesque State: Deportation and Detention in South Africa . Citizenship Studies. 15(5), 627-642.
Vigneswaran, D., Araia T., Hoag C., & Tshabalala X. (2010).  Criminality or Monopoly? Informal Immigration Enforcement in South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies. 36(2), 465-842.
Vigneswaran, D., & Quirk J. (2010).  Past Masters and Modern Inventions: Intellectual History as Critical Theory. International Relations. 24(2), 107-131.
Vigneswaran, D., Yaso M., & Hornberger J. (2010).  Policing the Beat: Music Piracy in Downtown Johannesburg. ACMS Research Report: International Policing, Mobility and Crime in South Africa. 1-33.
Vigneswaran, D. (2009).  The Revolving Door: Asylum seekers, Access and Employment in South Africa. (S. Gallo-Mosala, Ed.).Migrants’ Experiences within the South African Labour Market.
Amit, R., Vigneswaran D., Monson T., & Wachira G. M. (2009).  National Survey of the Refugee Reception and Status Determination System in South Africa. FMSP Research Report. 1-65.
Vigneswaran, D., & Duponchel M. (2009).  One Burden Too Many? A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Immigration Policing in Gauteng. FMSP Research Report. 1-31.
Vigneswaran, D., & Hornberger J. (2009).  Beyond Good Cop / Bad Cop: Understanding Informality and Police Corruption in South Africa. FMSP Research Report. 1-65.
Vigneswaran, D. (2009).  A Foot in the Door: Access to Asylum in South Africa. Refuge. 25(2), 41-52.
Vigneswaran, D. (2009).  Residential Sampling and Johannesburg's Forced Migrants. Journal of Refugee Studies. 22, 439-459.
Vigneswaran, D. (2008).  A Foot in the Door: Access to Asylum in South Africa. Forced Migration Studies Programme Working Papers. 1-22.
Vigneswaran, D. (2008).  Barriers to Asylum: The Marabastad Refugee Reception Office. Migrant Rights Monitoring Programme Reports. 1-29.
Landau, L. B., & Vigneswaran D. (2008).  Shifting the Focus of Migration Back Home: Perspectives from Southern Africa. Developoment. 50(4), 82-87.
Vigneswaran, D. (2008).  Enduring Territoriality: South African Immigration Control. Political Geography. 27(7), 783-801.