SIHMA Press Review for March 2026
Africa Aljazeera 27 Febuary 2026 Deadly journeys: Refugees, migrants risk everything to reach Europe More than 560 people have gone missing in the Mediterranean while attempting to reach Europe in less than two months of the new year, putting it on track to be among the deadliest years on record, with at least 500 lost crossing from Libya, Tunisia,...
The Human Reality of Migration in Angola
Migration is often seen as and reviewed through the lens of policies, statistics and legal frameworks. Yet, behind every number is a real person: a family looking for safety, a child crossing the border or a local community trying to help newcomers while dealing with its own money problems. To understand migration in Angola, we need to connect what the government plans with what actually happens to people. Angola has made significant triumphs...
Intersectionality of Gender, Culture, and Identity in Migrant Women’s Integration in Africa
This blog post is based on the article written by Charity Mawire and Dikeledi Mokoena, titled “Intersectionality of gender, culture and identity in migrant women’s integration in Africa,” which has been published in the African Human Mobility Review (Volume 11, No 3, 2025) (Charity Mawire & Dikeledi Mokoena, 2025). The blog is an overview and summary of their work, which is intended to make key ideas of...
Belonging Denied: How Neoliberal Inclusion Still Excludes Citizens with immigration backgrounds in South Africa
South Africa is widely known as the “Rainbow Nation”, a country that accepts and celebrates diversity, equality and inclusion. The ideology reflects the nation’s aspiration to create a society where people of different cultures, races and background can coexist equally as citizens. However, for many legal immigrants in south Africa, this promise of belonging remains incomplete. Research by Yvonne Zama Sibaya on “The middling Citizenship Trap” highlights the contradiction within citizenship systems
Necro-politics in Practice: How COVID-19 turned migrants into the “Living Dead” in South Africa (Authors: Paddington Mutekwe and Kenny Chiwarawara)
On 23 March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a nationwide lockdown as a response to the covid-19 cases recorded in 2020 and within 18 days, infections rose to 402. The lockdown was presented as a decisive move to protect the lives of citizens. But for many migrants in South Africa the pandemic response revealed a system that quietly decides who’s lives mattered. Drawing from the study done by Mutekwe and Chiwarawara in the African Human Mobility Review
SIHMA Press Review for February 2026
Africa Amnesty International 26 January 2026 Algeria/Tunisia: Forced return of asylum seeker and political dissident a violation of international law Amnesty International has condemned Algeria's forced return of former Tunisian parliamentarian and government critic Seifeddine Makhlouf to Tunisia on 18 January 2026 as a violation of the principle of non-refoulement, since he...
