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MoVE 2017: Two Arts-based Research Projects
The MoVE method:visual:explore project of the African Centre for Migration & Society (at Wits University) is holding an exhibition that showcases two visual and narrative research projects conducted in 2016 and 2017.
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Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute
The Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) is a leading African research institute focusing on sexual and reproductive health, HIV and vaccine preventable diseases.
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Sonke Gender Justice
Sonke Gender Justice is a nonpartisan, non-profit organisation, established in 2006 with a mission to create the change necessary for men, women, young people and children to enjoy equitable, healthy and happy relationships.
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Solidarity Center
The Solidarity Center’s program in South Africa aims to improve the lives of working people, particularly the most vulnerable—farm workers, domestic workers, migrant workers and women workers—who face long-standing barriers to sharing the country’s economic prosperity.
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Section 27
Section 27 is a public interest law centre that seeks to achieve substantive equality and social justice in South Africa.
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Nazareth House
Nazareth House is a non-profit, charitable organisation, which has served the communities in South Africa for over 130 years. The Sisters of Nazareth have opened their doors to the poorest of the poor in caring for the sick, destitute, aged and under privileged, orphaned children.
Read moreMigrant Workers Union of South Africa
The Migrant Workers Union of South Africa (MIWUSA) is an advocacy group to help migrants in South Africa enjoy decent working conditions.
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Lawyers for Human Rights
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is an independent human rights organisation with a 38-year track record of human rights activism and public interest litigation in South Africa.
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FACT-CHECKED: 2 claims about slavery & ‘child prostitutes’ in SA
maHp/ACMS postdoctoral research fellow Becky Walker was recently quoted in this Africa Check report, which investigated claims on “child prostitutes” in South Africa.
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Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS)
The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organisation with a mission to accompany, serve and advocate on behalf of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons.
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International Organization for Migration (IOM)
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a dynamic and growing inter-governmental organisation, with 151 member states, committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society.
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Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA)
The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA), formerly known as the National Consortium for Refugee Affairs, is a registered non profit organisation tasked with promoting and protecting refugee and migrant rights.
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Amnesty International South Africa (AISA)
Amnesty International South Africa, is the South Africa office of Amnesty International, the global movement of members, activists and supporters working together to fight and end injustices across the world and promote the realisation of human rights.
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African Centre for Migration & Society
The African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) is an interdisciplinary African-based centre of excellence dedicated to shaping global discourse on human mobility and social transformation.
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Abel Hospitality Ministries South Africa (AHOMSA)
AHOMSA is a team of Christian health professionals providing health care services, hunger prevention, drinking water provision and skills provision, as well as human resources capacity building to communities in Africa.
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Sally-Jean Shackleton
Sally-Jean Shackleton is the Director of the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task force (SWEAT) in South Africa. She facilitates the efforts of over 90 strong staff members to address stigma, improve health programming, deliver direct service, improve visibility and voice, and advocate for the decriminalisation of sex work.
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maHp on AMLive/SAfm “bad buildings” news insert
maHp associate Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon was recently interviewed for this AMLive/SAfm insert on “bad buildings” in Johannesburg, produced by Candice Nolan of SABCNews. [Permission to share this podcast was granted by the producer.]
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Implementing a multi-sectoral response to HIV: a case study of AIDS councils in the Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
This paper assesses the implementation of a multi-sectoral response to HIV in South Africa, through a case study of the Mpumalanga Province.
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Gender, violence, and sexuality: Collaborations for social justice at the intersection of academia, activism, and art
This blog post reflects on the “Gender, violence and sexuality: Collaborations for social justice at the intersection of academia, activism and art” symposium that took place earlier this year.
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Melanie Bisnauth researches HIV/AIDS infected women in South Africa
maHp/ACMS PhD candidate Melanie Bisnauth is featured in Maastricht University’s latest Master of Science in Global Health newsletter as an alumna, discussing her current doctoral research on HIV/AIDS.
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Metropolitan Nomads: A Journey through Joburg’s Little Mogadishu
Read and download for free the Metropolitan Nomads: A Journey through Joburg’s Little Mogadishu project book.
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300 000 Joburg housing backlog
Wilhelm-Solomon and Thabo Maisela, the mayor of Johannesburg’s special advisor for priority projects, held an in-depth discussion on the housing crisis in Johannesburg with 702’s radio talk show host Eusebius McKaiser.
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Join the maHp team: 2x post-doctoral fellowships
Come join the Migration and Health Project Southern Africa (maHp) team! We are seeking to recruit two post-doctoral fellows.
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Fact sheet on migration and health in the South African context
In this fact sheet, members of the Migrant Health Forum (MHF) provide journalists and other interested parties with information about the number of non-nationals, unequal distribution, the healthy migrant effect, as well as the law on access to health care services.
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Metropolitan nomads: a journey through Jo’burg’s “little Mogadishu”
This article takes an intimate look at the everyday life of Somali migrants in Johannesburg, where collective stories of migration and survival interweave with individual desires and hopes of seeking a better life outside a country shattered by decades of internal conflict.
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Accessing Health Care at Gauteng Hospitals and Clinics: I Know my Rights
What are my rights? How will I be classified? What can I do to ensure I get treatment? Drawing from South Africa’s Constitution, laws and policies pertaining to access to health care services, this fact sheet answers some of these questions.
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Health care for migrants in South Africa
This flyer outlines the South African Constitution, Refugees Act and the National Health Act say about the health rights of migrants.
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Before you judge me, KNOW MY STORY: review by Joy Watson
Nasty Women blogger Joy Watson reviews maHp’s KNOW MY STORY participatory arts-based research project.
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Sex Worker Poster Project (2017)
The Sex Worker Poster Project took the multiple stories generated through the Sex Worker Zine Project as the starting point to create advocacy messages in the form of posters. The zine stories provided an entry point to guide the conceptualisation of advocacy messages related to aspects of participants’ lives. Posters, however, are very different communication mechanisms to zines. While zines offer page sequences through which nuanced messages can emerge in a relationship of image and text, posters need to be a bit more direct in getting their
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A global research agenda on migration, mobility, and health
This paper by the Members of the Researchers on Migration, Mobility and Health Group explores the five core areas in which action is needed to support the development of a global research agenda on migration, mobility, and health.
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Ntokozo Yingwana
Ntokozo Yingwana (current since 2017, PhD in Migration and Displacement)
Dissertation: Queering Sex Work and Mobility in Southern Africa: How does migration/mobility/movement influence gendered sexualities in sex work?
Supervisor: Jo Vearey, B Camminga and Danai Mupotsa
Before you judge me, KNOW MY STORY! (public exhibition and discussion)
This exhibition showcases the pictures, collages and stories created during the KNOW MY STORY project; an arts-based research that explored the lives, struggles and reasons for selling sex. The event will include a discussion, dance performance, and role play.
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Izwi Lethu (Issue 13, 2017)
The first edition of Izwi Lethu 2017 has landed in your hands. The reading and empowering of the mind has begun.
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Edward Govere
Edward Govere is a PhD candidate in Migration and Displacement and a doctoral fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS). His research interests include migration and health; refugee studies; transnational migration; mental health; integration policies; public health; disability and governance of HIV/AIDS. His current research work focuses on how international migrants of African descent who reside in South Africa experience and negotiate othering practices in the context of South Africa’s public health system. Edward received his bachelor’s degree in Social Work from
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Thea Shahrokh
Thea Shahrokh is a doctoral researcher in the Migration, Displacement and Belonging group at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK. Drawing on cases from Cape Town, her research is focused on questions of agency and belonging for young migrants living in complex urban contexts in South Africa.
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KNOW MY STORY (2017)
“Before you judge me, know my story!” The 14 sex workers involved in the KNOW MY STORY project took pictures, created collages, and wrote their stories, asking their audiences to listen to what they had to say about themselves, their lives, their struggles, and their reasons for selling sex. The project forms part of a larger ethnographic study on the experiences, health practices, and well-being of sex workers in Soweto, South Africa. Inspired by projects conducted by the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS)
Read more Gender, violence and sexuality: Collaborations for social justice at the intersection of academia, activism and art
We invite you to join us for a symposium featuring collaborative projects at the intersection of academia, activism and art. We will discuss three approaches to research and activism for social justice in the field of gender, violence and sexuality.
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SeaM: Security at the Margins
Security at the Margins – SeaM – was a three-year partnership between the University of Edinburgh and the University of Witwatersrand. Our aim was to use innovative, interdisciplinary methods to explore (in)security on the urban margins in South Africa. Our partnership was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the South Africa National Research Foundation (NRF).
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Everyday Mayfair (2017)
Everyday Mayfair is a participatory research methods project in which Somali migrants explore, through the production of maps, photography and storytelling, their migration journeys from Somalia to Mayfair, Johannesburg, their present relationship with the city and their future hopes and dreams of resettlement in other parts of the world.
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