Internship Reflection of Nicolette
In the last few months we had the pleasure to receive the first intern from the University of Valencia. Nicolette joined the team at the end of September collaborated with SIHMA team until the 14th of December. We are really grateful of the presence of such motivated and passionate interns coming to support our activities and research and learn more about migration in Africa. Here is her reflection on the internship at SIHMA:
SIHMA's reflections and resolutions
2021 REFLECTIONS 2021 has been an important year for SIHMA staff in Cape Town, rich of new arrivals to the team. First of all we had the pleasure to collaborate with Nolwenn Marconnet, from the University of Copenhagen, Denemark, who conducted a remote internship in research and communication from September 2020 to January 2021. Also, Ginevra Gianardi from Italy joined our team and worked remotly from November 2020 to April 2021 and Maita...
New interns starting at SIHMA, from the University of Valencia
In the last two months SIHMA started a collaboration with the University of Valencia and had the opportunity to receive three interns from its International Master’s in Migration Programme. Nicolette was the first student who started her internship at our Cape Town office on the 27th of September, and on the 10th of November Marzia and Ángela also joined SIHMA’s team. Our students chose Scalabrini Institute...
Refugee Entrepreneurial Economies in Urban South Africa
The article summarized below, “Refugees Entrepreneurial Economies in Urban South Africa” was originally authored by Jonathan Crush, Godfrey Tawodzera, Cameron McCordic, Sujata Ramachandran, and Robertson Tengeh and published by the Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa (SIHMA). The South African migration integration scene is highly characterised by xenophobia. While racism is based on race, xenophobia is based on nationality meaning that nationals of a hosting country dislike or are prejudiced against people from other countries. Xenophobic...
