JUN
- Listed in categories:
- Articles
- Human Rights
- Migrants
- Migration In Africa
- Refugees
- Report
- Research
- Research Project
- SIHMA
- Vulnerable Minors
- Youth Migration
Youth Day and The Release of Border Towns and Spaces of (In)visibility
On the 16th of June, South Africa will come together and recognize Youth Day. In honor of Youth Day, SIHMA would like to recognize the importance of youth migration and its impacts on the advancement of opportunities.
To highlight the lived experiences of youth migrants, SIHMA is pleased to announce the release of a new report, Border towns and spaces of (in)visibility: Study of young people on the move in the border towns of Chipata and Katete, Zambia. This report focuses on the lived realities of migrant children who cross borders in search of possibilities.
Youth migrants inhabit towns located on the border of neighboring countries, hoping to find opportunities to advance through education or employment opportunities. Often crossing daily, youth are vulnerable to the dangers that migration can create.
Commissioned by SIHMA, researchers Dr. Glynis Clacherty, Dr. Rebecca Walker and James Clacherty evaluated the relationship of youth on the move, specifically in the towns of Chipata and Katete, both located on the borders of Zambia. Chipata and Katete are two border towns that inhabit migrant youth who are seeking both job opportunities and education. Many young people cross the border daily to attend school or go to work in countries that border Zambia. Others use the two towns as transit to bigger cities and also some will stay there for some time and raise funds to travel further down South to South Africa.
The crossing of borders by youth is done strategically in order to protect the invisibility of their daily movement. Proximal migration is commonly practiced throughout the youth. Most youth attend schools in bordering countries, often crossing the border everyday without any questioning from immigration officials. Youth movement is being conducted for the advancement of opportunities and the success that youth can obtain within neighboring countries. Despite the opportunities that proximal migration can provide, it is an extremely risky activity. Leaving youth vulnerable to smuggling and trafficking.
It is important to evaluate the relationships of youth and their lives within border towns. Border towns and spaces of (in)visibility, provides an in-depth examination on the impacts that migration can have on both the opportunities and safety of youth. By understanding the lived realities of migrant youth and the policies that impact their safety against vulnerabilities, effective solutions can be determined to protect youth on the move.
Access the full article here: https://sihma.org.za/reports/border-towns-and-spaces-of-in-visibility
By: Paige Poulin
Categories:
- Articles
- Human Rights
- Migrants
- Migration In Africa
- Refugees
- Report
- Research
- Research Project
- SIHMA
- Vulnerable Minors
- Youth Migration
Tags:
Post Categories
Posts by Tags
- 100th Anniversary
- 2020
- 2021
- Abiy
- Access
- Access To Socio-economic Rights
- Actions
- Activities
- Admin
- ADVOCACY
- Advocate
- Advocates
- Africa
- Africa Report
- African Union
- Africans On The Move
- Agenda Policy Makers
- Aging
- AHMR
- AHMR Journal
- #AlternativeCare
- AMADPOC
- AMECEA
- Amhara
- Anchor Baby
- Angola
- Anniversary
- Annual
- Annual Report
- Annual Report 2020
- Annual Report 2021
- Apostleship Of The Sea
- Archbishop
- ASCS
- Asylum
- Asylum Seeker
- Asylum Seekers
- Asylumm Seekers
- Asylumseekers
- Awareness
- #Belonging
- Birth Tourism
- Bishops' Conference Of Côte D'Ivoire
- Border Crossing
- Borders Reopening
- Briefing Paper
- Cabo Delgado
- Cameroonian
- Cape Town
- Caritas
- Catholic Church
- Celebration
- CERAP
- Cessation
- Child Labor
- Child Trafficking
- #ChildProtection
- Children
- Children On The Move
- China
- Christmas
- CIEMI
- Cities
- Citizenship
- Climate Change
- Climate Changes
- CMS
- Collaboration
- Collaborations
- Communication
- Communications
- Comparison
- Conference
- Conflict
- Congo
- Convention
- Côte D’Ivoire
- Counter
- COURT ORDER
- Cover
- Cover-19
- COVI-19
- Covid
- Covid-19
- COVID19
- CPLO
- Crisis
- CSER
- CTIP
- Cultural
- Cultural Video
- Department Of Home Affairs
- Deportation
- Detention
- Development
- Development & Migration
- Developments
- Digital Technology
- Disability
- Disaster
- Displaced People
- Displacement
- Documentation
- DRC
- Drought
- ECARP
- Economic Migrants
- Economic Migration
- Economics
- Economies
- ECOWAS
- Education
- Effects
- Emergency
- Emergency Camp
- Entrepreneurial
- Entrepreneurial Economies
- Environmental Change
- Escape Routes
- Ethiopia
- Europe
- Europe Migration
- European Union
- Event
- Events
- Exclusion
- Family
- Female Migrants
- Forced Migration
- Formal Settlement
- Foundation
- FOWLS
- Free Movement
- Gender
- Ghana
- Global Compact
- Health Center
- Health Centre
- Health Clinic
- Healthcare
- Heritage
- Heritage Day
- History
- Home Affairs
- Housing
- Human Capital
- Human Mobility
- Human Mobility Refoulement
- Human Mobility Trafficking SIHMA Africa Migration
- Human Right Day
- Human Rights
- Human Trafficking
- Humanitarian Aid
- Humanitarian Crisis
- #HumanRights
- Hunger
- ICMA
- ICMC
- IDP
- IDPs
- ILO
- Immigrants
- Immigration
- Immigration Policy
- Impact
- Impact Of COVID
- Impact Of COVID-19
- Impacts
- Inclusion
- Inequality
- Informal Economy
- Informal Sector
- Integration
- INTERN
- International Migration
- Interns
- Internship
- Intership
- IOM
- Irregular African Migrants
- Ivory Coast
- Jackpot Baby
- Jesuits
- Jesuits South Africa
- JOBS
- Johannesburg
- Journal
- Justice
- KCCB
- Kenya
- Labour
- Labour After Laudato Sì
- Labour Conditions
- Labour Market
- Law
- Lawrence House
- Legal Clinic
- Legal Office
- LEISAD
- Limpopo
- Litigation
- Lockdown
- Madagascar
- Management
- Mandela
- Media
- Mental Health
- Message
- Migrant
- MIGRANT CHILDREN
- Migrant Women
- Migrants
- Migrants Refugees
- Migrants Sub-saharan Africa
- #MigrantYouth
- Migration
- Migration And Development
- Migration Governance
- Migration In Africa
- Migration Management
- Migration Management Refoulement
- Migration Policy
- Migrats
- Missing Migrants
- Missing Persons
- Mission
- Missionaries
- Mobility In Africa
- Mobility In Africa Refoulement
- Mozambique
- Nairobi
- Nelson Mandela
- Networking
- New Intern
- New Member
- New Project
- Newsletter
- Nigeria
- Non-migration
- Norec
- OneSight
- Online Journal
- Ooo
- Palabek
- Pandemic
- People On The Move
- Policy
- Policy Makers
- Pope
- Press Review
- Profile
- Projects
- Protect And Promote
- Protection
- Publication
- Publications
- Rainbow Nation
- Reconciliation
- Reflection
- Reflections
- Refoulement
- Refugee
- Refugee Amendment Act
- Refugee Amendment Bill
- Refugee Crisis
- Refugee Issues
- Refugees
- Refugees Act
- Refugees Theology
- Regional Integration
- Regulations And Legislation
- Regulations And Legislation South Africa
- Remittances
- Remote
- Remote Internship
- Remote Working
- Repatriation
- Report
- Representation
- Research
- Research Agenda
- Research Projects
- Researcher
- Resolutions
- Responsability Sharing
- Response
- Responsibility
- Return
- Return Migration
- Returnee
- Right To Health
- Rights
- Roundtable
- SABC
- SACBC
- Safety
- Scalabrini
- Scalabrini Centre
- Scalabrini Fathers
- Scalabrinian
- Scalabrinian Missioners
- Scalabriniancongregation
- #ScalabriniCenter
- Scalatrici Centre Of Cape Town
- SCCT
- Schools
- Sclabrini
- Seafarers
- Security
- Seminar
- Series
- Settlement
- Sharing
- SIHMA
- SIHMA Conference
- Sihma_institute
- SIHMS
- SIMN
- Sino-african Migration
- SMC
- Social Innovation
- Social Media
- Socio-economic Rights
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Africa Statistics
- South-South Migration
- South Sudan
- Southafrica
- Southern Africa
- SPASA
- Spaza Shops
- Stateless
- Statelessness
- Stella Maris
- Stereotypes
- Sub-saharan Africa
- Subnational Migration
- SUDAN
- Support
- Taiwan
- Team
- Test-mike2
- Test-research
- Test Research 2
- Test Tag
- Test Training Course Tags
- Testimonial
- Testimonials
- Testmike
- The Future Of Work
- Tourism
- Tradition
- Trafficking
- Training
- Training Course
- Transit
- Uganda
- UN
- Unaccompanied Minors
- Undocumented
- Undocumented Children
- Undocumented Migration
- Undocumented People
- UNDP
- UNHCR
- UNIAPAC
- USA
- UWC
- Vaccines
- Violence
- Volcano Nyiragongo
- Voluntary Repatriation
- Volunteer
- VOLUNTEERING
- Volunteers
- Vulnerable Countries
- Vulnerable Minors
- Webinar
- WEBINARS
- Website
- Welcome
- West Africa
- West African States
- WFP
- WHO
- Women
- WORD PRESS PHOTO
- Workshop
- World Migration Day
- World Refugee Day
- WORSHOP
- Xenophobia
- Xenophobia South Africa
- Xenophobia Sub-saharan Africa
- YOUTH
- Youth Migration
- #YouthWellbeing
- Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwean Special Dispensation Permit