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Metropolitan Nomads: A Journey through Joburg’s Little Mogadishu (2014)
This project takes a close 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.
Chisomo Kalinga
Chisomo Kalinga is a Wellcome-funded literary post-doctoral researcher at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh. Her current project is titled “Tili Tonse (We are Listening): Mapping Oral Storytelling Traditions and Narratives with Health in Malawi”. Several of the research sites are located on the Mozambican, Tanzanian and Zambian borders to encourage a deeper understanding of African borderlands as a conceptual space and its impact on access to healthcare.
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(Well)Being in the City: a focus on health and migration in Johannesburg
In this issue, insights into how migration and mobility are mediating health within an African urban context are brought together.The papers bring the voices of different urban migrant groups to the fore and provide fresh perspectives on approaches for exploring how to research and respond to migration, mobility, and urban health in southern Africa. Advocating for mixed method and multi-disciplinary approaches, the papers provide important contributions to multi-disciplinary thinking around complex social issues.
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Melanie Bisnauth
Melanie Bisnauth is a PhD student at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa in the School of Public Health in collaboration with ACMS.
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Workshop on “Analysing Patient Mobility, Migration and Health” (20-21 March 2017)
In collaboration with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the University of York, maHp will be co-hosting a workshop on “Analysing Patient Mobility, Migration and Health” next week.
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Janine White
Janine White is a lecturer in the Social Determinants of Health on the New Generation of Academics Programme (nGAP) in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand.
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Lorraine Nencel
Lorraine Nencel is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, VU Amsterdam. She is specialised in qualitative methodology and her research focusses primarily on gender and sexuality. Currently, Lorraine is a co-investigator on a project concerning the sexual and reproductive health of young female migrants (sex workers, ready made garment workers, and beauty parlour workers) in Dhaka Bangladesh. Lorraine also writes on epistemological issues and researchers’ engagement in relation to feminist and critical research.
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Treasa Galvin
Treasa Galvin has a background and training in Social Anthropology and Sociology. Before moving to the University of Botswana, where she is currently a senior lecturer, Dr. Galvin lectured at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and the University of Zimbabwe. Her research interests lie in the areas of migration and refugee movements, ethnic relations and kinship and family structures.
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Dabea Gaboutloeloe
Dabea Gaboutloeloe is the National Migration Health Coordinator for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in South Africa, and has served in IOM Migration Health Programs since 2006.
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Nuala McGrath
Nuala McGrath is Professor of Epidemiology and Sexual Health; Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow within Medicine at the University of Southampton.
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Kol Wickramage
Kol Wickramage is the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Global Migration Health Research and Epidemiology Coordinator, and has served in IOM Migration Health Programs since 2009. Kol has worked on a broad spectrum of health programs ranging from medical interventions for ex-combatants following civil conflict, to migration health policy formulation, epidemiological research surveys, Yellow fever/MERS/Ebola virus outbreaks and post-crisis interventions in mass displacement contexts.
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Lenore Manderson
Lenore Manderson is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Anthropology in the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence RI, USA. She has undertaken research extensively with immigrant and refugee populations, and with Indigenous and Anglo-Australians, in Australia.
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Mark Collinson
Mark A. Collinson is a Senior Researcher at the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand. Mark was co-instrumental in establishing the MRC/Wits Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System in South Africa in 1992, and has led the INDEPTH Network Migration, Urbanisation and Health Working Group since 2003.
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Christine Jacobsen
Christine M. Jacobsen is a Professor of Social Anthropology working mainly in the fields of Gender Studies and International Migration and Ethnic Relations. She is currently director of Centre for Women’s and Gender research at the University of Bergen, Norway.
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Do You Hear Them Cry South Africa?
Today is the ‘International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers’. Participants of The Sex Worker Zine Project have been adding their voices to the #Decrim Blog Carnival. This project challenged stereotypes of migrant sex workers, calling for a move away from a single, rehearsed story. Here is Kagee‘s introduction to his zine, followed by its link.
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Don’t Judge Me Just Because I Am A Sex Worker!
In commemoration of tomorrow’s ‘International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers’ (17 December) the maHp is taking part in the #Decrim Blog Carnival. Below is Doe-Doe’s introduction to her zine, which was produced as part of The Sex Worker Zine Project. This project challenged stereotypes of migrant sex workers, calling for a move away from a single, rehearsed story.
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Izwi Lethu (Issue 12, 2016)
Thanks once more for making time to choose to read Izwi Lethu! 2016 has been a great year this far as we about to welcome 2017.
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Carren Ginsburg
Carren Ginsburg is employed as a Researcher in migration and health through the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). She has a background in research relating to geographic mobility, health, education and youth in the South African and African context, which has been developed both through her studies and through her work experience, including time with the well-known Birth-to-Twenty study.
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Moeketsi Modisenyane
Moeketsi Modisenyane is the Director of the International Health Relations and Support at the National Department of Health, South Africa. Moeketsi is currently working with various academic institutes, civil society, regional and international organisations and partners in securing the right to health for migrants in the South Africa and the SADC regional.
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Marlise Richter
Marlise Richter is the head of Sonke Gender Justice’s Policy, Development and Advocacy Unit. She oversees Sonke’s projects on prison reform advocacy, the decriminalisation of sex work, advocacy efforts towards a National Strategic Plan on Gender Based Violence, and the Sonke-UCLA Health and Human Rights LLM fellowship programme. She serves on the steering committees of the Asijiki Coalition for the Decriminalisation of Sex work as well as the Hate Crimes Working Group.
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Anuj Kapilashrami
Anuj Kapilashrami is a Lecturer in Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Anuj is the Programme Director for the MSc in Global Health & Public Policy, and Associate Director of the Global Development Academy at the University of Edinburgh.
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Jo Hunter-Adams
Jo Hunter-Adams is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Health Economics Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town. Jo is a qualitative public health researcher with an interest in the intersections between migration, food and health.
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Lorena Muñoz
Lorena Muñoz is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. Lorena is an urban/cultural geographer whose research focuses on the intersections of place, space, gender, sexuality, health and race. Her research includes exploring the experiences of urban migrant and immigrant labourers in the Global South.
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LeConté Dill
LeConté Dill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the SUNY Downstate School of Public Health in Brooklyn, NY and a Research Associate with the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Jasmine Gideon
Jasmine Gideon is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies with a specific focus on the gendered political economy of health in Latin America. She has a PhD and an MSc in Development Studies and a BA (Hons) in History. Jasmine’s research focuses on gender and health, globalization and development, and transnational migration and health
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Felicity Thomas
Felicity Thomas is a Research Fellow on the Cultural Contexts of Health, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Medical School at the University of Exeter. Felicity’s work has focused on the health and well-being of low-income communities, migrants and families with complex needs; sexual health and HIV; environment-related health inequities; and the promotion of healthy schools.
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Sarah Willen
Sarah S. Willen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut and Director of HRI’s Research Program on Global Health and Human Rights. A medical and sociocultural anthropologist, her primary research interests include the illegalization and criminalization of migrants; immigration and health; health and human rights; embodiment and experience; and anthropological approaches to morality, dignity, and deservingness.
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EJ Milne
EJ Milne is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University. Her research focuses on the process, politics and ethics of knowledge production with particular regard to people in transition and / or affected by conflict. This includes people identifying as LGBTQI, migrants and refugees and young people.
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Verina Wild
Verina Wild is a Post Doc researcher at the philosophy department at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. Her main research interests are clinical ethics, public health ethics and global health justice, with a special focus on migrant health. She is a physician by training and has worked in bioethics and public health ethics since 2008.
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Svati Shah
Svati Shah is an Associate Professor in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University ofMassachusetts, Amherst. Her research includes work on migration, sexuality and sex work.
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Johanna Hanefeld
Johanna Hanefeld is an Associate Professor in Health Policy and Systems’ Research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Johanna’s research includes a focus on medical travel and migration.
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Lorena Nunez
Lorena Nunez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is a Social Anthropologist with a specialisation in Medical Anthropology, and works on linkages between migration, HIV, mental health and faith-based healing.
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Laura Bisaillon
Laura Bisaillon is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist whose research program is substantively organised at the intersections of the politics of health and illness, socio-legal studies, and immigration studies.
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Participation in scientific committees
maHp team members participate as international experts in scientific and technical advisory committees relating to migration and health.
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Conferences and symposiums
maHp team members regularly participate in national, regional and international research conferences and symposia.
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Public exhibitions
With the MoVE method:visual:explore project, maHp hosts public exhibitions and engagement events that provide a range of publics with the opportunity to engage with the lived experiences of diverse migrant groups in southern Africa.
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Policy dialogues
In partnership with the Johannesburg Migrant Health Forum, maHp is hosting a series of policy dialogues on issues relating to migration, health, policy and practice.
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#artsmethods
#artsmethods provides spaces for dialogue between the multiple stakeholders involved in developing, undertaking and sharing visual, arts-based research projects.
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Stitching our [HIV] Stories (2016)
Stitching our [HIV] Stories – activist quilts by members of Sisonke, the South African national sex worker movement.
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