Please distribute to you contacts and mailing lists. thank you.
Kind regards,
Mpumi Mnqapu (Ms)
Project and Publicity Manager
University of the Witwatersrand
Forced Migration Studies Programme (FMSP)
P. O. Box 76
Wits, 2050
South Africa
Tel: +27 11 7174696
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University of the Witwatersrand
Forced Migration Studies Programme
School of Social Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand
PO Box 76, Wits 2050
South Africa
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f: +27 11 717 4040
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http://migration.org.za
May 2009
To Whom It May Concern:
It is my pleasure to introduce the University of the Witwatersrand’s
Forced Migration Studies
Programme (FMSP). Located at a continental crossroads of trade,
travel, and intellectual exchange,
we are a leading institution for migration research in Africa and one
of the few offering graduate
degree courses in forced migration studies. With a dynamic staff and
students from across the
continent and elsewhere, the FMSP is a critical node in a network of
professionals and scholars. I
hope you will share this information with others who might be
interested in becoming a student or
researcher in our programme.
Our teaching programmes are designed for students and practitioners
seeking greater insight into the
experience of displaced persons, international humanitarianism, and
communities being transformed
by human mobility. For those new to the field, they provide an
introduction to key issues and themes.
For those with practical experience, they offer an opportunity for
critical reflection. Seminars taught
by visiting scholars, workshops, and outreach activities add further
depth to students’ experience at
the FMSP. Moreover, all students enrolling at the Masters level
participate in one of the FMSP’s
ongoing research initiatives where they receive specialised attention
and mentorship.
Applications are now being accepted for registration in February 2010.
To be eligible for financial
assistance, applications must be submitted by 30 August 2009.
I have enclosed further information and would be grateful if you would
make these available to
potentially interested parties. For more information, please visit our
website, http://migration.org.za, or
contact us at the address listed below.
Sincerely,
Loren B. Landau, PhD
Director
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FMSP booklet 2009
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Table of Contents
Degrees Offered 2
Honours Degree in Forced Migration 2
Postgraduate Diploma (PGDA) in Forced Migration 2
Master of Arts (MA) in Forced Migration by Coursework and Research
Report 2
Master of Arts (MA) in Forced Migration by Research (Dissertation
only) 2
PhD in Forced Migration 2
FMSP Module Courses Planned for 2010 4
Introduction to Forced Migration 4
The Logics and Methods of Forced Migration Research 4
The Psychosocial and Health Consequences of Forced Migration 4
Identity, Movement, and Control: Theories of Southern African
Migration 4
Research Projects 5
Gender, Violence and Displacement 5
History of Migration Control 5
Hotel Yeoville: Photography and Life Histories 6
Migrant Mobilisation: Goals, Structure and Conceptions of Rights 7
Migrant Rights Monitoring Project 8
Migration, Displacement, and Health 8
New African Cities Project 9
South African Responses to Zimbabwean Migration 9
Transit Imagined. West African Migrants “In Transit” in South Africa 10
Mobility and the Governance of Urban Space: Policy Formation and
Social Reconfiguration in African Cities 10
Recent Publications 12
Journal Articles 12
Book Chapters 12
Reports 13
Events and Opportunities 14
Migration and Society Seminar Series 14
Supplementary Methodology Workshops 14
Research Opportunities 14
Financial Aid 14
Staff 2009 16
Administration 16
Academic Staff 16
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Degrees Offered
Honours Degree in Forced Migration
The Honours degree in Forced Migration Studies is intended for those
wanting to advance their
ability to analyse and understand research, practice and policy in the
field of forced migration. It is
open to applicants who have a three-year degree in any social science
discipline with at least an
upper second class pass (typically 65% or above average) in their
third year. It is also suitable for
people who are transferring from technical fields such as engineering
or business.
Postgraduate Diploma (PGDA) in Forced Migration
This degree is intended for candidates with social science degrees,
strong degrees from other related
disciplines, such as law, and those with extensive practical
experience. This degree option is open to
applicants who have achieved at least an upper second class pass
(typically 65% or above average) in
their first university degree.
Master of Arts (MA) in Forced Migration by Coursework and Research
Report
Intended to advance candidates’ critical engagement with the theory
and practices of forced
migration, this degree is suitable for those who would like to advance
their scholarly training in
forced migration studies. Successful applicants to the MA in Forced
Migration Studies will possess a
good Honours or four-year undergraduate degree (typically with an
average of 65% or above) in any
social-science or related discipline. Candidates with relevant
professional experience will also be
considered.
Master of Arts (MA) in Forced Migration by Research (Dissertation only)
The MA by research is intended to advance candidates critical
engagement with the theory and
practices of forced migration. The Masters by Research is intended for
advanced students with prior
social-science research experience and a background in migration
studies. It is intended for those
seeking advanced research training in the field of forced migration.
Evaluation is based solely on the
successful completion of a research report of around 50,000 words.
PhD in Forced Migration
The PhD in Forced Migration Studies is intended for those who intend
to have a career in research
either inside or outside the academy. The degree generally requires no
coursework. Successful
doctoral applicants must have a strong undergraduate degree and
Masters qualification; a
substantive background in a migration-related field; and a
demonstrated ability to conduct
methodologically sound, independent research (academic or otherwise).
Strong students who do not
meet all of these qualifications may be admitted on the condition that
they register for a research
methods course and/or the core course, or complete a Masters degree
through the programme.
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Upon approval from the instructor and programme director, it may also
be possible to register for a
single module as an ‘occasional’ student. Space allowing, modules may
be open to students enrolled
in other degrees across the University.
For more detail on degrees offered and the requirements please visit http://migration.org.za
Applications for 2010 close on 31st August 2009
“I’ve been in school since I was 4. Now, here, finally, I feel like I
am in a place where study goes beyond study
for study’s sake. FMSP is a place where theory meets practice and even
students can be a part of the incredible
potential for change that results in that space.”
Katherine Takabvirwa, current student.
“The Forced Migration Studies Programme has become internationally
established as an
authority on regional and comparative forced migration issues. Through
its teaching, research
and public seminars, it has provided a much needed critical platform
for confronting civil
society, researchers and policy makers alike with the overwhelming
need to develop multi-
partner participatory strategies and policies to ensure the effective
protection of migrants”.
Jeff Handmaker, Institute of Social Studies, the Hague.
“It is definitely a programme I would recommend for any practitioner.
It helps put into perspective the work
that we do and gives you a more reasoned approach to the issues we
grapple with in forced migration. It
sounds strange that an academic programme would lend you pragmatism
but it has done exactly that”.
Eva Maina Ayiera, Refugee Consortium Council of Kenya.
My year in the class of MA in forced migration was a truly mind
blowing experience. It was a year full of
excitement, pressure and discovery of many new and better ways of
thinking and approaching the subject and
of forced migration from many different perspectives…it was a place
where the minds of scholars, policy
makers and practitioners in the field meet to research, discuss and
find solutions to the plight of displaced
people globally. I would highly recommend this course to any
professional interested in furthering their
understanding and bridging the gaps between the theory and practice of
forced migration.
Kimenyi Buzoya, UNHCR Tanzania.
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FMSP Module Courses Planned for 2010
Please note that these are abbreviated descriptions intended to
provide students with a general
overview of the courses on offer. Consult the Graduate School Handbook
for a full list of courses on
offer in 2010 or visit www.migration.org.za for more details on the
courses below.
Introduction to Forced Migration
GRAD 4021/5076/7029
(First Term)
This survey course introduces students to issues related to
contemporary experiences of forced
migration and international humanitarianism, and situates these
movements within the broader
context of international migration and urbanisation.
The Logics and Methods of Forced Migration Research
GRAD 4047/5090/7056
(First Term)
This course is intended to strengthen students’ capacity for critical,
independent social research. The
focus is on understanding social science’s objectives and logics,
enhancing students’ skills for
evaluating the merits of published materials, and developing
strategies for conducting
methodologically sound, theoretically relevant research in the
environments where refugees and
forced migrants are typically found.
The Psychosocial and Health Consequences of Forced Migration
GRAD 4042/5087/7052
(Second Term)
This course provides a critical introduction to the health and
psychosocial consequences of forced
migration. The theoretical core of the course draws primarily from a
public health perspective on
humanitarian interventions and rights based arguments relating to
health care of forced migrants. It
explores the relationships between the state of being a forced migrant
and the conditions that
create vulnerabilities to ill health, specifically with regard to HIV/
AIDS; mental and reproductive
health.
Identity, Movement, and Control: Theories of Southern African Migration
SOSS 4019/7025
(Second Term)
This course aims to provide students with a broad and critical
understanding of theories of human
migration. The approach draws on political science, sociology,
anthropology and human geography
to place the core principles and developments in refugee and migration
studies into a larger context
and history.
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Research Projects
Gender, Violence and Displacement
Contact: Ingrid Palmary
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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
during conflict, why, and with what consequences. Responding
meaningfully to the needs of
migrants requires that we understand these effects. Previously focused
on migration as a
consequence of armed conflict and political transition, the research
now considers all categories of
migrants. However, the manner in which violence stems from and
(re)produces gendered social
relations remains a central concern.
Programmes of research exist in the following main areas:
Gender in the asylum system in South Africa and internationally:
This ongoing research
project has generated a range of data on asylum applications submitted
in South Africa on
the basis of gender-based persecution.
Evaluating ‘the domestic’ in domestic violence: This project engages
with a growing body of
research that considers the blurred boundary between domestic and
political violence, and
questions the value of this distinction, particularly in contexts of
conflict and political
transition.
Mainstreaming gender into practice: Many attempts have been made to
‘mainstream’ gender
into development and humanitarian responses to migration. Existing
research projects have
sought to evaluate the many guidelines, tools, and policies that have
been developed for
working with migrant communities, in order to assess what they tell us
about relationships
between migrant men and women, and what their needs – be they
different or similar – are
considered to be.
Migration, gender, and identity: Research in this area has focused
on how migration affects
our sense of who we are, our social position, and the roles we attach
to that position. Does
migration, for example, create the possibility of more egalitarian
social and cultural
structures, or does it restrict changes to social relationships as we
cling to stylised
representations of ‘life before migration’?
Childhood, migration, and gender relations: Gender relationships
both shape and are shaped
by our understanding of what children need. Assumptions about
children’s vulnerability –
what adults believe they are vulnerable to and what care they are
thought to need – are
often challenged by the activities of migrant children and their own
questioning of their
status as ‘vulnerable’, and even as ‘children’. Furthermore, patterns
of childcare shape
relationships between men and women, and provide an indicator of
shifts in these patterns.
History of Migration Control
Contact: Darshan Vigneswaran
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Contemporary migration controls are the product of a long and complex
process of historical change.
Only in the early parts of the twentieth century did a variety of
nation-states begin to exclude
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international migrants using border controls, passports, and
immigration bureaucracies. This
territorial system of migration management – historically contingent
and poorly understood in the
global north – is barely recognisable in a sub-Saharan African
context. Governments in the region
proclaim the sovereign prerogative to manage and limit immigration,
but have little understanding
of migratory patterns, and limited control over the way their own
officials enforce immigration laws.
Hence, while immigration policy frameworks often mimic northern
counterparts on paper, they are
generally geographically diffuse, low in impact, and subject to
destabilisation from below.
This initiative explores the theoretical, normative and practical
dimensions of migration control in
Southern Africa, asking
To what extent are ‘states’ the drivers of immigration enforcement
practices on the
continent?
How are immigration policies translated into practices within
government agencies?
More ambitiously, how can African migration governance be
transformed to manage
migration in ways that fit better with the continent’s pressing
developmental agenda?
Like most areas of study within this field, the migration control
research agenda is interdisciplinary in
nature and scope, and welcomes contributions from a variety of
perspectives and approaches, and
across a number of national contexts. However, historical and
political-science analyses of South
Africa have been key disciplinary axes up until now.
Hotel Yeoville: Photography and Life Histories
Contact: Terry Kurgan
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This initiative responds to the contemporary context of Yeoville, a
neglected suburb on the eastern
edge of Johannesburg’s inner city. This two-year project, conducted in
collaboration with
Johannesburg-based artist Terry Kurgan, is about migration and the
reconfiguration of an enormous
African city. It maps a residential block on either side of Page
Street, between Grafton and
Fortesque. This block is typical of the suburb as a whole – an
agglomeration of freestanding small
houses and apartment blocks in various conditions from the utterly
derelict to the well-maintained –
and is home to South Africans and immigrants from Central, East and
West African countries.
Through photography, life histories, and other forms of social
research, this innovative project
investigates, records, and makes visible the experiences of the people
who are living there. It goes
on to consider the implications of these reflections for the decisions
of policymakers, city planners
and designers. It will contribute to a bottom-up policy-making process
– one whose content will,
through the intermediation of the project, draw on the lived
experience of urban residents
themselves. It is hoped that the knowledge gained through this
initiative will help promote urban
strategies whose central concerns are the human rights and wellbeing
of all city residents.
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Migrant Mobilisation: Goals, Structure and Conceptions of Rights
Contact: Zaheera Jinnah
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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 social support. Focusing on three South African cities and
Nairobi, urban centres with
significant non-national populations—this study will document and
explain migrants’ individual and
collective mobilisation for those rights and others’ groups attempts
to do so on their behalf.
Three puzzles emerging from ten years of prior research in Southern
Africa animate this project.
First, despite widespread human mobility (urbanisation, domestic
migration, and
international migration) and an active civil society in South Africa
and elsewhere, there
have been few sustained campaigns for migrant rights. Where action has
occurred, it
has been oriented toward specific events or policy processes and has
rarely developed
long-standing networks or politically visible organisations. Their
absence is particularly
surprising given widespread violations of migrant rights and the
established presence of
non-nationals throughout the region.
Second, in attempting to explain the absence of widespread migrant
mobilisation, this
project will build on FMSP research suggesting that social exclusion
and political
marginalization may not always be challenges migrants wish to
overcome. Rather, non-
nationals and other outsiders (e.g., ethnic minorities and domestic
migrants) often
capitalise on their ability to exist in a world partially beyond state
and social regulation.
Along with risks, many find freedom and opportunity in worlds without
documentation,
organizational membership, or familial obligation. In this context,
this study will also
explore migrants’ understand of rights, their content, and the
purposes they imagine
that they will serve. It works from the presumptions that any system
of rights also
brings with it duties and other forms of regulation from which
migrants may choose to
avoid or exit.
Third, this study breaks from the state-centrism informing much of
the research on civil
society mobilization. Organisations like the sans papiers in France
and similar
movements are largely dedicated to changing state law and practice or
using the state’s
power to promote their interests. Amidst the rapid expansion of
Africa’s cities and
public officials’ relative incapacities and disinterest, this study
does not presume the
state’s normative or empirical centrality in denying, mediating, or
allocating rights. In
such environments, rights may be allocated or denied by religious or
ethnic
associations, employers, landlords, and gangsters with little
reference to policy and law.
As such, this study will identify the state and non-state actors and
institutions that
block or allocate rights and migrants various efforts to claim them.
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Migrant Rights Monitoring Project
Contact: Jean-Pierre Misago
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This initiative builds upon the FMSP’s longstanding record of research
and advocacy on migrant
rights, with sustained, rigorous research into the nature of human-
rights abuses against foreigners,
the implementation of immigration control policies, and the access of
refugees and immigrants to
basic human rights. As South Africa becomes ever more entrenched as a
primary destination and
transit point for migrants from Africa and Asia, there is a growing
recognition of regular human-
rights abuses against foreigners in the country. But those working to
counter these violations are
faced with a shortage of information about how the migrant population
is constituted, how migrants
interact with South Africans and South African institutions, the
specific rights violations they face,
and the reasons behind these violations. Without such insights,
neither government nor advocacy
groups can effectively promote the rights and welfare of non-citizens
and those amongst whom they
live. This project, working in collaboration with partners across
South Africa, will provide information
to civil-society organisations working to improve conditions for non-
citizens seeking protection and
prosperity in South Africa.
Migration, Displacement, and Health
Contact: Lorena Nunez & Jo Vearey
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This project initiative examines health as a specific developmental
impact of migration, and is
investigating health – particularly healthcare seeking - as a
determinant of migration. Considered
from a broad public health perspective, health includes psychosocial,
cultural and biomedical
dimensions. These multiple domains are examined through the processes
of social and personal
displacement which result from both internal and cross-border
migration. The project makes use of
the social determinants of health as a framework to investigate and
understand the causes of ill
health.
This initiative understands health as a dimension of human rights, and
therefore pays attention to
social suffering and the effects of various forms of violence and
inequality on migrants’ health.
Within this perspective, the effect of armed conflicts and political
violence on the health of refugees
and asylum seekers is a particular area of interest. The effects of
discrimination, xenophobia and
marginalisation on migrants’ health are examined.
Migration is considered as an increasingly important dimension of
urban public health with wide-
ranging impacts across the urban social determinants of health,
including access to adequate
housing and basic services. Research therefore attends to health
systems and policy, models of
healthcare and institutional responses to migrants’ healthcare needs.
Drawing from perspectives on
development, human rights and public health, this initiative at
present, addresses the following
themes, described in detail on the following pages:
Health systems research;
The relationship between migration, HIV and urban livelihoods;
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Trauma care for migrants: critical reflections on the South African
experience;
‘Dying in a foreign country’: the interface between rights,
healthcare, and culture in the
proximity or in the event of a migrant’s death.
New African Cities Project
Contact: Loren Landau
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This collaborative initiative – involving partners in Mozambique,
Kenya, Congo, France, and the
United States – explores how human mobility is transforming African
cities. Drawing on insights from
urban sociology, human geography, and political science, it seeks to
document:
The nature of the factors that structure migrants’ journeys from
source country to capital
city;
The nature of urban migrants’ linkages with their countries and
communities of origin, and
how these ties affect their livelihoods and attitudes towards place; and
How contact between foreign migrants and the local population affect
group loyalties and
political affiliations.
Through these inquiries, participants also generate policy-relevant
information on urban governance
and redevelopment, property markets, livelihoods, and human security.
In late 2006, the initiative conducted surveys of international and
domestic migrants and long-term
urban residents in Johannesburg, Maputo, Lubumbashi, and Nairobi.
Analysis of the collected
statistical data will include secondary qualitative and comparative
studies in these regional centres
of transit and trade, working with students and institutional partners.
South African Responses to Zimbabwean Migration
Contact: Tara Polzer
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Zimbabwean migration to South Africa since 2000 has been the largest
single flow of people in South
African history. In spite of this, there has been relatively little
comprehensive study of Zimbabwean
migration in South Africa, nor have there been coherent or
commensurate government responses to
this movement.
Zimbabwean migration to South Africa has raised a series of
theoretical and policy issues, including,
among others:
appropriate legal and humanitarian responses to mixed migration flows;
disaster preparedness and response in the case of gradually
increasing long-term and large-
scale migration, rather than an immediate mass movement of people;
the roles of informal, social network based social welfare systems
in the absence of formal
social welfare protection;
policy-making (or the lack thereof) on the basis of migration myths
rather than facts
(especially regarding migration volumes).
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Transit Imagined: West African Migrants “In Transit” in South Africa
Contact: Christine Ludl
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This project explores the representations of migration and traveling
of West African migrants in
South Africa and focuses on the concrete and imaginary aspects of
transit, the migrants’ relations to
the city and their plans to move to other places, mainly Western
destinations like Europe and the
U.S. Thus, the project accounts for South Africa’s twofold status as a
country of destination and a
country of transit and aims at revealing the specific and distinctive
features of the city of
Johannesburg and their influence on the shaping of the migrants’
representations and aspirations.
The project focuses on migrants from the Ivory Coast and from the
Senegal River valley, a region
covering parts of Senegal, Mali and Mauritania. Methodologically, it
relies on ethnographic
fieldwork, including non directive interviews, participant observation
and the analysis of cultural
productions.
The project is part of the Mitrans project (Migrations de transit en
Afrique. Dynamiques locales et
globales, gestion politique et expériences d’acteurs), which brings
together the French Institute of
South Africa (IFAS), the research unit “Migrations et Société” at the
University of Nice, France, and
the FMSP at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Mobility and the Governance of Urban Space: Policy Formation and Social
Reconfiguration in African Cities
Contact: Aurelia Wa Kabwe – Segatti & Loren Landau
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Within the next fifteen years, the majority of Africans will live in
cities. The result of failing rural
economies, global economic integration and international migration,
the growth of the continent’s
urban centres are generating new social configuration and patterns of
power, authority and
belonging. With decentralisation, local authorities will formally gain
new resources and authority
over urban spaces, potentially challenging the dominance of national
governments in policymaking
and regulation. But as they become formally empowered, globalisation
and regional integration will
insinuate them into supra-local processes, including human mobility,
over which they may have little
influence. Although urbanisation and urban politics attract
considerable attention elsewhere in the
world, Africanist urban scholarship tends to overlook migration and
human mobility. When scholars
do address such themes, they are typically through the lenses of
demography, national policy, or
human rights protection. This project addresses these gaps by
exploring the politics of spatial
redistribution of people and power in six African cities:
Johannesburg, Cape Town, Maputo,
Lubumbashi, Nairobi, and Kinshasa.
Building on previous work conducted by the Forced Migration Studies
Programme and its partners,
this two-year initiative includes three overlapping phases.
Policy and Demographic Overview: Intended to reveal the spatial
redistribution of
populations and official responses to human mobility, the project
begins with a review of
existing demographic data and policy documents at national and
subnational levels.
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Conceptualising migration and urban governance: Through interviews
with local officials and
using organisational sociology, the project will build on its
demographic and policy review by
revealing how local government officials understand and approach human
mobility.
Reconfiguration of Regulation and Power: Recognising the often
significant disjunctures
between policy and practice, this project’s third phase will identify
actual existing processes
of spatial regulation and governance using intensive observation and
ethnographic
techniques to study local bureaucracies and the development of
contestation repertoires
among policy recipients.
Project Partner:
UMR Développement et societies (UR IRD 201), Paris, Programmes
Migrations et territoires &
Mobiltés, Politiques urbaines et développement
The project focuses on the following key issues:
Local Policy Formation and Implementation; Policy Transfers
Advocacy Coalition Frameworks and Networks: a Comparison of
Migration and other
Sectors of Public Intervention
Claiming Rights: Organisation and Discourses
Discourses of Exclusion: Comparative Analysis of Host Community
Attitudes and Practice
(could potentially focus on violence).
Activating Entitlements and Exclusion: Local Government Policies on
Migration and
Immigration (SA or Regionally)
Routes – Determining Routes and Expectation of Onward Movement – 3
City Comparison
Globalisation and Urban African Diasporas – Patterns of Connections
and Belonging
among Study Cities
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Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Landau, L. and Vigneswaren D. (2008). Attacks on Foreigners in South
Africa: More than Just
Xenophobia?’ Strategic Review.
Landau, L. and Misago, J. P. (2009). Who to Blame and What’s to Gain:
Reflections on Space, State, and
Violence in Kenya and South Africa. Afrika Spectrum.
Landau, L. and Monson, T. (2008). Displacement, Estrangement, and
Sovereignty: Reconfiguring
State Power in Urban South Africa.’ 2008. Government and Opposition, 43.
Ludl, C. (2008). 'To skip a step': New Representation(s) of Migration,
Success and Politics in
Senegalese Rap and Theatre, Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für
kritische Afrikastudien, 14.
Nunez, L. (2009). The hidden cost of being an economic migrant: a
critical understanding of the
emotional distress experienced by Peruvian migrants in Chile. Journal
of health management, 2.
Palmary, I. and Nunez, L. (2009). The orthodoxy of gender
mainstreaming: Reflecting on gender
mainstreaming as a strategy for accomplishing the millennium
development goals. Journal of
health management, 1.
Palmary, I. (2009). Migrations of theory, method and practice: A
reflection on themes in migration
studies, Psychology in society, 37.
Palmary I. (2008). Gender race and culture: Unpacking discourses of
tradition and culture in UNHCR
refugee policy. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 6.
Polzer, T., Hammond, L. (2008) Invisible Displacements: Editorial
Introduction. Journal of Refugee
Studies, 21(4).
Polzer, T. (2008) Invisible Integration: How Bureaucratic, Academic
and Social Categories Obscure
Integrated Refugees. Journal of Refugee Studies, 21(4).
Polzer, T. (2008) Responding to Zimbabwean migration in South Africa:
evaluating options. South
African Journal of International Affairs, 15 (1)
Segatti, AWK (2008). Les Nouvelles Logiques De L’asile Dans L’Afrique
Australe Post-Apartheid. LA
DISPUTE editeures.
Segatti, AWK (2008). ‘Clandestines’ et ‘makwerekwere’ dans l’Afrique
du Sud post-apartheid:
production de categories, practiques administrative et xenophobie.
Social Science Information.
Segatti, AWK (2008). In the aftermaths of the xenophobic violence in
South Africa: How can South
African cities respond? Foreign Voices
Vigneswaran, D. (2009 forthcoming) A Foot in the Door: Access to
Asylum in South Africa, Refuge, 26.
Vigneswaran, D. (2008) Enduring territoriality: South African
immigration control, Political
Geography, 27(7).
Books and Book Chapters
Landau, L. (2008). The Humanitarian Hangover: Displacement, Aid, and
Transformation in Western
Tanzania. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
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Landau, L. (2008). Protecting as capability expansion: Practical
ethics for assisting urban refugees, in
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14 Events and Opportunities | FMSP Handbook 2010
Events and Opportunities
Migration and Society Seminar Series
The FMSP organises speaker and seminar series for the benefit of
students, service providers, and
the public. Held either in the evenings or over the lunch hour, these
include presentations of new
research and developments related to migration, conflict, and
humanitarianism. Students are
required to attend and are welcome to suggest topics/speakers.
Postgraduate students are also encouraged to participate in the
Advanced Seminar Series and other
seminars offered in the Graduate School and the School of Social
Sciences. These provide
opportunities to engage with different fields, research methods, and
professional skills.
Supplementary Methodology Workshops
As part of the course on the ‘logics and methods of forced migration
research’ FMSP offers
additional ad hoc methodology training. In 2010 this will include a
week long statistical methods
training workshop, a one day workshop on questionnaire design and a
one day workshop on
approaches to analysing qualitative data. In addition, the Graduate
School for the Humanities and
Social Sciences offers one day supplementary workshops for students
looking for more advanced
training in particular research methods.
Research Opportunities
Those studying at FMSP are strongly encouraged to embed their research
in one of the
abovementioned research programmes. This not only allows candidates to
gain valuable experience
by being part of a larger research team, it also allows candidates to
participate in real world research
informing the theory, policy and practices in the field of forced
migration. The extensive range of
research being conducted at FMSP means that some students who are
embedded in research
projects can obtain financial support for their contribution to the
programme.
Financial Aid
There are three forms of financial assistance potentially available to
students enrolling full-time for a
degree with the FMSP:
University bursaries: These are awarded through the scholarships
office. Students wishing to
apply must include their completed scholarship forms with their
applications. Students will
only be notified in January 2009 if their applications for assistance
have been successful. For
more information, consult www.wits.ac.za/Prospective/FinancialAid.
Programme Fellowships: The FMSP offers student support in the form
of work-study
opportunities with the programme. These range from commitments to
employ students in
existing research initiatives to full scholarships for African
students already working at other
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African Universities. As there is intense competition for these
opportunities, students are
encouraged to apply early.
Self-sourced financial aid: Students are often able to access
independent sources of financing
in their home countries or communities. In the past, these have
included the Rotary
Foundation, the Fulbright Fellowships, the Ford Foundation, and
current employers. The
FMSP is willing to work with students to develop applications
Students are encouraged to check with the University’s International
Office by visiting the University
website (www.wits.ac.za/Prospective/International) for more
information on international student
fees and costs.
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Staff 2009
Administration
Loren B. Landau, PhD
Director
Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4038 • [log in to unmask]
Lenore Longwe
Administrator
Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4033 • [log in to unmask]
Mpumi Mnqapu
Events and Information Manager
Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4696 • [log in to unmask]
Academic Staff
Tesfalem Araia
Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4697 • [log in to unmask]
Christine Ludl
[log in to unmask]
Jean Pierre Misago
Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4033 • [log in to unmask]
Lorena C. Nunez, PhD
Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4698 • [log in to unmask]
Ingrid Palmary, PhD
Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4084 • [log in to unmask]
Tara Polzer
Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4084 • [log in to unmask]
Terry Kurgen
Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4033 • [log in to unmask]
Joanna Vearey
Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4045 • [log in to unmask]
Darshan Vigneswaran, PhD
Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4031 • [log in to unmask]
Aurelia Wa Kabwe Segatti, PhD
Tel: +27 (0) 11 717 4047 • [log in to unmask]
Zaheera Jinnah
Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4033 • [log in to unmask]
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