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ARUA Early Career Research Fellowships Open

ARUA Early Career Research Fellowships Open

by | Apr 21, 2026 | Front Page, jobs, News, Uncategorized

Want to visit the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), as a research fellow? The second round of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Early Career Research Fellowships is currently open...
Misreading mobility?: Bureaucratic politics and blindness in the United Nations’ migration reports

Misreading mobility?: Bureaucratic politics and blindness in the United Nations’ migration reports

by | Feb 6, 2020 | Sarchi, Uncategorized

A journal article by Prof Loren Landau and Prof Tendayi Achiume 2015 marked a dramatic shift in global discourse on international migration. This article is a qualitative, socio-legal interrogation of two highly influential migration reports produced by the United...
Historicising ‘irregular’ migration from Senegal to Europe

Historicising ‘irregular’ migration from Senegal to Europe

by | Feb 6, 2020 | Sarchi, Uncategorized

A journal article by Dr Stephanie Maher Contemporary discourses on migration from West Africa to Europe tend to frame migrants as victims of syndicated trafficking cartels that truck in human desperation. As part of this narrative, migrants are increasingly portrayed...
Politics by other means? The political economy of xenophobic violence in post-apartheid South Africa

Politics by other means? The political economy of xenophobic violence in post-apartheid South Africa

by | Feb 6, 2020 | Sarchi, Uncategorized

A journal article by Dr JP Misago   Misago, J.P. 2017. Politics by other means? The political economy of xenophobic violence in post-apartheid South Africa. The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research, 47, 40-53.
Why religion? Immigrant groups as objects of political claims on immigration and civic integration in Western Europe, 1995–2009

Why religion? Immigrant groups as objects of political claims on immigration and civic integration in Western Europe, 1995–2009

by | Feb 6, 2020 | Sarchi, Uncategorized

A journal article by Dr Joost Berkhout and Dr Didier Ruedin Under which circumstances do politicians differentiate among immigrants? When they do, why do they in some countries focus on Muslim immigrants rather than national or other groups? We use claims-making...
Stealth Humanitarianism: Negotiating Politics, Precarity and Performance Management in Protecting the Urban Displaced

Stealth Humanitarianism: Negotiating Politics, Precarity and Performance Management in Protecting the Urban Displaced

by | Feb 6, 2020 | Sarchi, Uncategorized

A journal article by Dr Caroline Wanjiku Kihato and Prof Loren Landau Post-cold-war-era conflicts and the humanitarian political economy have driven two disparate yet concurrent shifts within the humanitarian field. On one hand, new public management-style reforms...
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