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Video6 July 2026
OP-ED: The other violence: While South Africa watched the marches, the state built a camp
By Prof. Jo Vearey and Dr Rebecca Walker, Daily Maverick We are watching a de facto refugee camp form under…
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Video28 May 2026
Focus on immigration and refugee policy: In conversation with Prof. Jo Vearey
By SABC News South Africas approach to migration and refugee policy remains a complex and evolving issue, shaped by questions…
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Video8 April 2026
Cabinet approves revised immigration white paper
This panel discussion was originally aired on Newzroom Afrika, on 4 April 2026. South Africas Home Affairs Minister, Dr Leon…
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News30 March 2026
Two Migration Reforms, One State: Institutional Coherence and the Future of Labour Migration Governance in South Africa
By Kabiri N. Bule (PhD) South Africa’s migration system is under growing pressure to change. Administrative weakness, legal uncertainty, unemployment…
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News16 February 2026
East African Queer and Trans Displacements
Marnell, J., Camminga, B., Bompani, B., & Wairuri, K. (Eds.). (2026). East African Queer and Trans Displacements. Bloomsbury Academic. The…
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News28 January 2026
Socio-Spatial Transformations research theme and team
The Second International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) 2026 will be taking place in New York, from 5 to 8 May 2026. As the primary…
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Video16 May 2025
‘White Afrikaners know they’re not being persecuted in SA’
ACMS/Wits Universitys Professor Loren Landau tells Newzroom Afrika that Afrikaners who have accepted U.S. President Donald Trump’s resettlement programme are…
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Video12 May 2025
Reports that US will accept White South African ‘refugees’ prompts concern in South Africa
South Africa says it is concerned about reports that the United States of America (USA) will begin taking in White…
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News11 November 2024
Now you see them, now you don’t: performance and the politics of localizing (forced) migration governance in the Horn of Africa’s secondary cities
Kihato, C. W., & Landau, L. B. (2024). Now you see them, now you don’t: performance and the politics of…
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News12 June 2023
Migration and Health in the WHO-AFRO Region: A Scoping Review
Vearey, Jo. (2023). Migration and Health in the WHO-AFRO Region: A Scoping Review. African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS),…
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