Transportation of Migrants and by Migrants
William Walters (2015) [1] advances the notion of ‘viapolitics’ as an umbrella term linking notions of migration and mobility, and individuating a diagonal line for the opening of new perspectives on migration by allowing to shift the focus on the means of migrant transportation (vehicles, roads, boats…). Accordingly, the means of migrant transportation are a stage for political action, and exist and participate in broader migration politics. Moreover, they can be understood as mobile zones of governance, since...
International Women's Day
On International Women’s Day SIHMA recognises and celebrates the role migrant women in Africa and in societies across the world. We recognise migrant women’s contribution, their experiences and the challenges faced and overcome. Migrant women and girls are particularly vulnerable to abuse and exploitation and are far too frequently marginalised and excluded from access to rights and opportunities. In 2020 the Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa launched a series on the Exclusion of Migrant women in...
February 2021 – Press Review
National Coverage Migrants in SA fear being excluded from the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. Daily Maverick - 5 February 2021 While most South Africans are looking forward to the distribution of the vaccines, the migrant community is growing increasingly concerned about the vaccine’s availability to them. Dr Zweli Mkhize, South Africa's Minister of Health, said on the 30th of January that only South African citizens would be receive the COVID 19 vaccine during...
Nolwenn Marconnet's internship experience
This week’s Blog post is dedicated to another brilliant intern of our team, Nolwenn Marconnet, who just came to the end of her internship experience at SIHMA. We are very grateful to have worked and shared knowledge about human mobility with her. Nolwenn's preparation and dedication has been...
Exclusion of Migrant Women in Africa | Access to Housing
Continuing the Series on Migrant Women In continuing the series on the exclusion of migrant women, we are looking at the limited access to housing that migrant women have around Africa and around the world. Previously in this SIHMA series...
Missing Migrants and IOM Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) webinar
Did you know migrants are facing many challenges including locating their loved ones who have gone missing? There are many migrants traveling with little to no documentation. Without documentation it is hard to find these individuals and locate loved ones if they go missing. Migrants are dying in the sea, in deserts (especially in the Sahara in the African Context (1)) and at various unofficial border posts because of the increase in monitoring and border policing...
