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
Forced Displacement in Niger
In recent years, Niger has seen a sharp rise in forced migration and internal displacement. The Atlas of African Migration an online resource developed by SIHMA, highlights how continuous violence, environmental stress, and regional instability influence mobility patterns throughout the continent. In the case of Niger, displacement trends have been hastened by climate-related disasters as well as worsening political and security conditions in nearby nations. Communities around the nation have changed as a...
NEWLY PUBLISHED ARTICLE: Gaps in the Implementation of the Non-Prima Facie Refugee Status Determination in Uganda
As millions of refugees fleeing conflict and instability, Uganda stands out as one of the friendliest nations amid an evolving global displacement environment (Frank Ahimbisibwe & Milena Belloni, 2024). The procedure of determining non-prima facie refugee status, is less common but vital component of refugee protection. The non-prima facie path requires individual asylum seekers to prove their case, often in urban context and under far more complex conditions than the prima facie approach, which quickly gives refuge...
