SIHMA Press Review for December 2024 and January 2025
PRESS REVIEW - SOUTH AFRICA 01 - Undocumented foreign learners to be admitted in schools IOL, 01/25/2025 The Department of Basic Education (DBE) in South Africa...
Good news for children of undocumented foreign parents and guardians for their admission into South African schools
CHILDREN of undocumented foreign nationals will not be required to produce any form of identification before registering for admission at any school in South Africa. For decades, undocumented children have been largely excluded from the education system, left on the margins by restrictive policies and legislative gaps. Recent developments signal a monumental shift towards a more inclusive approach, harmonizing South Africa’s laws with international standards and reinforcing undocumented immigrant children's right to basic education.
New SIHMA research projects for the Migration and Mobility Dialogue Support Programme
SIHMA successfully participated together with other organisations in an ICMPD call for proposals for the MMD Migration and Mobility Dialogue Support Programme. The Project, lead by the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town, icludes COMRSA (Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa) in South Africa and Jesuit Refugee Service Uganda (JRS) and the Catholic Centre for Legal Aid Services in Uganda. Migration is...
The new AHMR special issue is online!
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...
"On the line" a documentary on alternatives to detention and deportation
Exploring alternatives to immigration detention and deportation is a key topic in the current conversation about forced human mobility in the continent. Are there viable alternatives to South Africa’s immigration detention and deportation system? This was the central question examined at the launch of the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town’s new documentary, On The Line, on August 28th at Cape Town’s Labia Theatre. The event gathered around eighty individuals from refugee-led organisations, civil society,...
SIHMA Christmas Message for 2024
Dear readers, We wish all who celebrate Christmas, whose faith opens them to embracing vulnerability - through this vulnerable Baby - we wish you blessings for this season. For those whose faith has different contours and those of no faith at all - we wish you a time of profound reflection, new hope and deep courage as you ponder with Christians the unsettling message of Christmas. Each year, the Christmas story finds deeper relevance...
