Tamlyn Monson
MA alumni

Tamlyn is a PhD student in Sociology within the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics, where she focuses on historicising the politics of 'xenophobic' mobilisation in South Africa.

Tamlyn Monson worked for ACMS as a researcher for several years, examining issues of non-state authority and territorial control in areas affected by ‘xenophobic’ attacks. She has an interdisciplinary background with Masters degrees in Applied Linguistics and Forced Migration Studies. She works primarily on projects focused on the causes, consequences, and responses to ‘xenophobic’ violence and exclusion in South Africa. In 2009 she led the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC’s) investigation into issues of rule of law, justice and impunity arising from the May 2008 attacks on foreign nationals and other outsiders in South Africa.

Publications

Monson, T., & Arian R. (2011).  Media Memory: A Critical Reconstruction of the May 2008 Violence . (Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Exorcising the Demons within: Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa .
Monson, T. (2011).  Making the Law; Breaking the Law; Taking the Law into Our Own Hands: Sovereignty and Territorial Control in Three South African Settlements . (Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Exorcising the Demons within: Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa .
Monson, T. (2010).  Loading the Lottery of Birth: Forced Migration. The Forum. 34-37.
Monson, T., & Misago J. P. (2010).  Non-nationals displaced in South Africa. Forced Migration Review. 34, 62-64.
Monson, T. (2010).  Report on the SAHRC Investigation into Issues of Rule of Law, Justice and Impunity arising out of the 2008 Public Violence against Non-Nationals. 1-96.
Misago, J. P., Monson T., Polzer Ngwato T., & Landau L. B. (2010).  Violence Against Foreign Nationals in South Africa: Understanding Causes and Evaluating Responses. FMSP Research Report. 1-234.
Richter, M., & Monson T. (2010).  Human Trafficking & Migration. FMSP Issue Brief. 1-7.
Landau, L. B., & Monson T. (2010).  Immigration and Subterranean Sovereignty in South African Cities. (Anne L. Clunan, Harold A. Trinkunas, Ed.).Ungoverned Spaces: Alternatives to State Authority in an Era of Softened. Ch. 8; 153-174.
Misago, J. P., Landau L. B., & Monson T. (2009).  Towards Tolerance, Law and Dignity: Addressing Violence against Foreign Nationals in South Africa. 1-67.
Monson, T., Igglesden V., & Polzer Ngwato T. (2009).  Humanitarian Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in South Africa: Lessons Learned Following Attacks on Foreign Nationals in May 2008. FMSP Research Report. 1-187.
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.
Araia, T., & Monson T. (2009).  Report on Human Smuggling across the South Africa/ Zimbabwe Border. FMSP Research Report. 1-54.
Monson, T., & Araia T. (2009).  South Africa's Smugglers' Borderland. Forced Migration Review. 33, 68-69.
Monson, T., & Misago J. P. (2009).  Why History has Repeated itself: The Security Risks of Structural Xenophobia. SA Crime Quarterly. 29, 25-34.
Kiwanuka, M., & Monson T. (2009).  Zimbabwean Migration into Southern Africa: New Trends and Responses. FMSP Research Report. 1-95.
Landau, L. B., & Monson T. (2008).  Displacement, Estrangement and Sovereignty: Reconfiguring State Power in Urban South Africa. Government and Opposition: An International Journal of Comparative Politics. 43(2), 315-336.