Considering Communities of Difference projects |
Projects within this research theme interrogate the meaning of community and how social differences are enacted and re-enacted within them. They pay particular focus to community practices that veil social differences of 'race', class, gender and nationality. Interrogating the limits, functions, and forms of 'community' and mobilizations in its name reveals important aspects of political representations, identitive affinities, and the changing nature of belonging.
This research works from the assumption that displacement and its underlying causes are gendered and affect gender relationships. Gender roles, expectations, and inequalities affect who migrates...
Migrants traverse and transform geographic, social, and political space. Within these spaces, successful quest for profit, passage, and protection depend on rights to work, move, and access necessary...
Religion helps delimit and bind populations, defining communities by providing avenues for incorporation and meaning-making, and mechanisms of exclusion. Amidst rapid urbanisation and migration,...
The main research question for this study asserts that as economic actors in a migratory context the traditional role of women as secondary actors to men in Somali society is being challenged. In...
The Constitution of South Africa provides for the rights of migrants - including the basic right to protection of life and dignity as well as the right to equal access to justice - yet there are many...
An international research programme funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) Call “Les Suds II” / 2011-2013
ANR XenAfPol
The politics of xenophobic exclusion in Africa:...