Archive for Migration

• Serial Migration

  by Susan Ossman | Animated conversations about the intensification of mobility and its relationship to emerging political forms and programs have circled around figures of the immigrant, the cosmopolitan and the nomad. Yet these discussions often seem rather abstract and unconnected to the actua...

• The East African Community and the Refugee Question

  by Kenechukwu C. Esom According to the World Refugee Survey 2009 statistics, the five East African Community States host a combined population of 949,000 refugees. Of this number, about 300,000 are citizens of East African States living as refugees in the territory of other Community member States...

• Taking Citizenship Rights with You: A new vision for human mobility (I)

  Wendy Harcourt contributes two short entries on some inspiring discussions at the WIDE Annual Conference on ‘Migration in the context of globalization: women’s human rights at risk’ held in Bucharest 3-5 June 2010. by Wendy Harcourt Despite or perhaps because we are living in a time of c...

• The Missing Link: Migrant domestic workers in Europe (II)

  It is no longer possible to separate out the domestic work agenda from the feminist European agenda according to Andrea Spehar in her speech to the WIDE Annual Conference on 'Migration in the context of globalisation: women's human rights at risk', held in Bucharest 3 to 5 June 2010. by Wendy Har...

• SID Trend Monitoring Report – Drivers of regional Food Security

  Growing food insecurity is a reality in the region. Based on this observation, the third SID trend monitoring report seeks to provide a regional overview on the topic, by looking at some of the key drivers (weather conditions, climate change, conflict) as described in news and reports, by summarizi...

• Two-Tiered Justice: Anti-Immigrant Laws in the United States

  by Walter A. Ewing * The criminalization of immigration has garnered considerable media attention in the United States due to the harsh new anti-immigrant law recently enacted in the state of Arizona.  That law makes it a state crime to not carry proper immigration documents (making it a misdeme...

• EA integration and cross border migration: Key issues for the regional agenda

  by Dulo Nyaoro As the five East African governments accelerate the momentum towards regional integration, which is contemplated to be complete and functional by the year 2015 some important issues compel thoughtful considerations. This is partly because policies and decisions made will have far r...

• Policing Migration in South Africa: Disinformation, Development, and Accountability

  by Loren B Landau and Julia Hornberger* On 2 March 2010, Provincial Police commissioners went before the South African parliament insisting that, ‘illegal immigrants are stretching police resources and manpower.’ The acting chief of police for Gauteng Province—home to Johannesburg and Pret...

• Migration, gender and development: A conversation from a comparative perspective

  How is participation of women in migration changed in the last 20 years? Is there a difference in international migration patterns between women and men? Sara Farris’ article - published on Development Vol. 53.1 'New Institutions for Development'– seeks to answer these questions focusing on fema...

• The Cognitive Landscape of a Refugee Camp: Conversation part IV

  by Angela Zarro in response to Bethany Ojalehto and Jacob Akech Bethany’s article takes a close and hard look at the condition of being a refugee, going beyond any use of definitions and categories. The stories that Bethany tells, remind us that refugees are first and foremost people and like ...