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Category: Cross-Border Crime

SIHMA Press Review for February 2025 and March 2025


Apr 03, 2025
Categories: Advocates's Migration Brief African Politics Articles Asylum Policy border security Border Security Enhancement Briefing Paper Children On The Move Community Development corruption Cross-Border Collaboration Cross-Border Crime Forced Migration Migration Policies news SIHMA

South Africa 25 March 2025 Daily Maverick Home Affairs minister launches new body to combat corruption at South Africa’s borders South Africa's borders are highly vulnerable to transnational crime due to poor infrastructure, weak enforcement, and corruption within the Border Management Authority (BMA) and the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). To combat this, the Border Management and Immigration Anti-Corruption Forum (BMIACF) has been launched...

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The new AHMR special issue is online!


Jan 14, 2025
Categories: Government Policy Cross-Border Crime Articles Journal Migration in Africa

SIHMA and UWC are glad to present the last issue of their joint scientific publication AHMR, focused on "Cities of Contagion: Pandemic Precarity, Migration, and Food Security in Urban Africa". Spcial guest-editors for this edition are prof. Jonathan Crush,  Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo (Canada), and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, and Zack Ahmed, SSHRC Doctoral Fellow in the Global Governance program at the Balsillie School...

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