Presentation: Migration and Society Seminar Series

These papers and power points reflect presentations from scholars for ACMS's Migration and Society Seminar Series as well as ACMS presentations for various meetings and conferences. ACMS's Migration and Society Seminar Series is an academic space for scholars doing research in the field of migration from the region and from abroad. The space is oriented to offer a platform for discussion and debate for scholars who would like to present final or in progress work.

IRD-FMSP, 2010. Accommodating diversity and mobility in African cities: data generation and use. [15th Metropolis Conference Workshop] 4-8 October 2010, The Hague.

IRD-FMSP Workshop at the 15th Metropolis Conference.

This workshop addressed the politics of spatial redistribution of people and power in five African cities: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Maputo, Nairobi, and Kinshasa. As Africa’s cities grow, they are generating new social configuration and patterns of power, authority and belonging.

Musoni, F. 2010. Clandestine Migration and the Politics of Corruption on the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border. 27 July, 2010. FMSP Migration and Society Series, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Schweitzer, R., Vromans, L., Knoetze, K., Kagee, A., 2010. The Experience of Xenophobia in the Western Cape: A Narrative Perspective. 11 May, 2010. Migration and Society Seminar, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

This presentation, part of FMSP's Migration and Society Seminar Series, addresses the following issues:

Refugees in Africa
Xenophobia as a phenomenon
Xenophobic Attacks in the Western Cape (2008)
Our Research Methodology
Research Findings
Implications

The Forced Migration Studies Programme at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, hos

Venables, E. 2010. Migration as the Route to Sex-Work, Sex-Work as the Rout to Migration: An Ethnographic Exploration of Female Migratory Aspirations in the Casamance, Sengal. 29 March 2010. Migration and Society Seminar, University of Witwatersrand.

This paper is part of FMSP's Migration and Society Seminar Series:

"This paper is part of my doctoral thesis focussing on imaginations of migration in Senegal, in which I looked at creative and gendered migration strategies including Internet dating, beach boys, sex-work and clandestine pirogue departures.

Hankela, E. 2010. Humanity Without Borders: Grounds for Refugees Staying at Central Methodist Mission. [presentation] 26 Feb. 2010. Migration and Society Seminar, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

This paper is part of FMSP's Migration and Society Seminar Series and engages the presenter's PhD research on Central Methodist Mission:

"CMM has become well-known to the public due to providing shelter for thousands of homeless people, both foreign nationals and displaced South Africans. Both local and international media has brought these people to our consciousness.

Vearey, J., Thomas, L., Núñez, L., Bezuidenhout, J. and Drimie, S. 2009. Informal settlements and HIV in South Africa: the need for a developmental local response. 2 Dec. 2009. SARAHA Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Informal settlements and HIV in South Africa: the need for a developmental local response