Elsa Oliveira
2011 MA Alumni

Elsa Oliveira completed her Master’s Degree in Forced Migration Studies at the African Centre for Migration and Society in 2011. Her MA research study on migrant women who sell sex in inner city Johannesburg explored the impacts of urban space on self-representation. As part of this research Elsa conducted a participatory photography project in collaboration with Market Photo Workshop, Sisonke Sex Worker Movement and the ACMS. She plans to begin her doctoral studies in 2012.

Publications

Vearey, J., Oliveira E., Madzimure T., & Ntini B. (2011).  Working the City: experiences of migrant women in inner-city Johannesburg. Southern Africa Gender and Media and Diversity Journal. 9, 228-233.
Oliveira, E. (2011).  Sex Work and HIV. Equal Treatment. 38, 16-17.
Oliveira, E. (2011).  Searching for the 'Land of Opportunities' A Story about a Migrant Zimbabwean Woman who Sells Sex in Johannesburg. Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration. 1(2), 58-63.