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Mobility Governance Lab @MobGovLab

A collaboration between @ACMSWits and @ODID_QEH committed to understanding the regulation of movement across the global south.

Joined November 2021
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How cool is this #job? Come research migrant #rights mobilisation with Africa’s premier #migration research centre! Spread the word.
ACMS Wits University@ACMSWits
23 Apr 2024
[VACANCY] A Researcher is being sought to lead a 2-year project titled: “Strengthening Strategic Engagement and Movement Building for Migrant Rights in South & Southern Africa”, as part of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab (MGL). See details here: tinyurl.com/5n8t56fu
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MGL co-director, @lorenlandau speaking with colleagues on South Africa's ongoing blight: @xenophobic violence.
Loren B Landau@lorenlandau
22 Nov 2023
Pleased to be able to share this important discussion with such impressive and dedicated colleagues. It is not about the acute horrors we see elsewhere these days, but the quotidian forms of discrimination and exclusion that make them possible. @ACMSWits @ODID_QEH @MobGovLab
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Collaborators and co-directors making good in the world.
Loren B Landau@lorenlandau
5 Oct 2023
Keen on @mobility, @African @cities & @interdisciplinarity? This is the place to go. Images by @AwoTsegah & music by Clare Loveday inspired by @wanjikukihato’s book. Brochure includes an essay by Tom Asher and yours truly. @ODID_QEH @ACMSWits youwillfindyourpeoplehere.fr…
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@MobGovLab collaborator @wanjikukihato speaks to @BBC_AudreyB about her 'spellbinding' work at the intersection of art and social science at @la_Biennale. Convo starts @ 17.45. It's all about moving from the census to the senses. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0fxdg… @ODID_QEH @ACMSWits

Focus on Africa - How Sudan's clans endanger Sahel security - BBC Sounds

Hemedti and al-Burhan's clan ties threaten to push Sudan's civil war beyond its borders

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Keen for a piece of @la_Biennale magic? See these pieces @AwoTsegah by for @MobGovLab supported, 'You'll Find Your People Here'. Beautiful work from a rising star. They'll go fast. Nab one while you can from Aya Editions. instagram.com/p/CtJfHAsOago/ @wanjikukihato @FrameFortyFive

AYA Editions (@ayaeditions) • Instagram reel

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Pleased that ⁦@wanjikukihato⁩ and the MGL supported exhibition is getting the attention it deserves. #art #migration #magic ⁦@ACMSWits⁩ ⁦@ODID_QEH⁩ ⁦@AwoTsegah⁩ dailymaverick.co.za/article/…

The African exhibition chosen for La Biennale di Venezia

Kenyan sociologist Caroline Wanjiku Kihato’s book ‘Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City’ was adapted with work by three other African women into a collaborative project...

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MGL is honoured to have partnered w/4 visionary women in reframing #African #Migration & #urban narratives at the @la_Biennale. Congrats to @wanjikukihato, Mareli Stolp, Clare Loveday & @AwoTsegah @ACMSWits,@ODID_QEH,@lorenlandau,@FrameFortyFive wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/…
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Delighted to see @mobgovlab researcher and @ACMSWits doctoral student, Silindile Mlilo, overcome her stage fright to introduce the world to the next generation of African leaders. eui.eu/news-hub?id=africa-an…
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MGL co-director @lorenlandau presenting @CitiesAlliance workshop on #displacement, #migration and #urban planning in #Africa’s horn. Building municipal networks for the future. @ACMSWits @ODID_QEH
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Start the year off right: a Max Planck-Oxford post- doc on mobility, diversity, & environmental change in Sub-Saharan Africa. Two years of well paid, pioneering research with amazing colleagues. mmg.mpg.de/1001030/two-resea… @ODID_QEH @CmsLegon @ACMSWits @lorenlandau @mpimmg

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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

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Pleased to share this opportunity. We hope you will do the same. #Migration #climate #postdocjobs
Loren B Landau@lorenlandau
12 Dec 2022
An incredible opportunity for 2 post-doctoral fellowships exploring climate change, migration & urbanisation in Ghana & S. Africa. Sponsored by the @mpimmg in collaboration with @ODID_QEH, @ACMSWits in Johannesburg, and the @CmsLegon in Ghana .mmg.mpg.de/1001030/two-resea… @MigGovLab
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Thanks to all who participated with such insight and generosity in our inaugural workshop, ‘challenging mobility governance’. A precious opportunity for interdisciplinary, critical, empirically grounded & generative debate. @ACMSWits @ODID_QEH
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Please join @i_freemantle & @MobGovLab co-director @lorenlandau as they present their work on #Europe's African #Mobility #Governance apparatus as part of @huma_africa seminar series. Register here: huma.uct.ac.za/event/iriann-… @ODID_QEH @ACMSWits
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Worth a look and listen.
ACMS Wits University@ACMSWits
2 Nov 2022
We are delighted to host this two-day conference to be held in person in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 1–2 December 2022 (keynote addresses will be live-streamed). Registration for the conference is limited: migration.org.za/conference-…
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Happening now: long overdue launch of the Migration Studies SI, Arrival at the Margins'. W/@CVar_Sil @natashaiskander @lorenlandau @DianaThomaz_ @mbsetrana and many more. Thanks to @NYUAbuDhabi @compas @ACMSWits for your support. Intro free at: doi.org/10.1093/migration/mn…
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An invaluable opportunity to engage with innovative and supportive #migration scholars. In #Amsterdam. Moreover, half the places reserved for Africans. That doesn't happen every day. @ACMSWits
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We are delighted to co-sponsor the launch of this Migration Studies special issue. Get a free copy of the intro & engage w/valued collaborators: @JiaYe26826827, @natashaiskander, @DianaThomaz_, @CVar_Sil, @lorenlandau and many more. @ACMSWits, @CmsLegon, @wagnerschool, @ODID_QEH
COMPAS@COMPAS_oxford
27 Sep 2022
Join us for the Virtual Launch of ‘Arrival at the Margins,’ - a discussion of a Migration Studies special issue on mobility, politics & theory from the margins. 🗓 19 October 2022 🕑 2-3pm BST / 9-10 am NYC 📝Register to attend via Zoom 👇 compas.ox.ac.uk/event/virtua…
Arrival at the Margins, 19th October, 2-3pm UK, 9-10am NYC

ALT Arrival at the Margins, 19th October, 2-3pm UK, 9-10am NYC
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After the Italian election and hardening UK immig regulations, this piece helps ground the debate. Citing research from @MobGovLab co-director @lorenlandau, it reminds us that most Africans have no European desires costs are sky high. odi.org/en/insights/what-if-… @odid @ACMSWits
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