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Xenophobic Violence Reveals a Crisis in Policing and Leadership
The ongoing unrest and violence in South Africa’s urban areas and townships emphasises, once again, the breakdown in the rule of law. As has often been the case in post-apartheid South Africa, protests and community anger have been mobilised against the outsider, the black foreigner who is the target of wrath and fury. But this round of violence goes deeper, revealing fractures and issues of credibility in elected political leadership.
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Trump’s Muslim ban unfair and ineffective
President Trump’s order effectively shuts the door not just on migrants and refugees but on the very principles of justice, writes ACMS / maHp researcher Zaheera Jinnah.
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Reading the Zine Image
The zines from the Sex Worker Zine Project are powerful visual and narrative accounts of personal struggles and successes, everyday realities, beliefs, hopes and dreams. These visual stories are crafted around aspects of participants’ lives that they wanted a public to know about.
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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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What could go wrong in this year’s GFMD?
By KUDAKWASHE VANYORO and KELLYNN WEE The 2016 Global Forum on Migration and Development just opened in Bangladesh. Two return delegates from civil society explain what would make this year’s conference, in their eyes, better than the last.
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Searching for HIV Harmony in SADC
Panashe is a twenty-six-year-old Zimbabwean women living with HIV. She works in a restaurant in the old mining town of Roodepoort on the west rand of Johannesburg.
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Love and Truth in Arts-based Research
The #artsmethods 3 Symposium held at the 10th to 11th November in the Worker’s Museum, Newtown mined the unstable territory of images and ‘collaborative arts’, and the conditions of their creation.
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The Future of Artisanal Mining is Clouded in Dust and Smoke
The future of artisanal small-scale (ASM) mining in South Africa rests on a legal and existential precipice; its very definition is clouded in dust and smoke.
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Arts based research, expressive forms and uncertainty
As Barone and Eisner argue, the expressive form, and the ability to work with uncertainty, are two important characteristics of arts based research.
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Zama Zamas: Women of Stone
“Grinding stones is like grinding peanut butter,” one of the women working on an illegal “crushing” site near Johannesburg explained recently, “but on stones you use your whole power.”
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The Double Stigma of Migration and Sex Work
“From a migrant’s perspective from another country you face a double stigma as sex workers first because you are from another country, second because you are a sex worker in a country where sex work is criminalised” said Lindah
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On crises and commonality: reflections from an international symposium on migration and intersectionality
On 28 October 2016, maHp team members, Thea de Gruchy, Zaheera Jinnah, and Goitse Manthata, participated in an international symposium titled ‘Intersectionality and Migration’ at Carleton University.
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Proud in Europe? LGBTI refugees, immigration authorities & the gay community in the EU
Last month Amsterdam was home to the Europride, a European LGBT event which takes place in a different European city every year.
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Artivism: art as activism, activism as art
Art can be a powerful tool for activists. It can grapple with the world and bring about change. This piece explores some of the artivism on display at AWID 2016.
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Migration-aware HIV responses in southern Africa
maHp Project Manager Jo Vearey discusses what the International AIDS Conference’s call for ‘Access Equity Rights Now’ mean for migration-aware HIV responses in sub-Saharan Africa on an Ubuntu radio interview (26th July 2016).
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Why migration patterns are so important to designing responses to HIV
Significant strides have been made in the global response to HIV. But there is an urgent need to rethink the ways that prevention and treatment programmes are developed and implemented.
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Research, arts and advocacy: launch of Izwi Lethu project book
‘Izwi Lethu: a participatory arts-based project’ book was launched at the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) and Sisonke office in Johannesburg last week.
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Research, arts and advocacy: launch of Izwi Lethu project book
‘Izwi Lethu: a participatory arts-based project’ book was launched at the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) and Sisonke office in Johannesburg last week.
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Between a rock and a hard place: Informal artisanal gold mining in Johannesburg
On the western periphery of Johannesburg, with the famous skyline of the city silhouetted in the early morning sun, Bongani is beginning another day of work.
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Exploring the Intersectionalities of Gender and Sexuality in Migration Studies
“Could you tell me what the difference is between a sex worker and someone who sells sex?” asks a member of the audience. “Well, we argue that some of these migrant women do not necessarily label themselves as a sex worker.
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The Struggle Against Silence: Media Responses to Decriminalising Sex Work in South Africa and Zimbabwe
In March this year, Cyril Ramaphosa – the South African Deputy President – publicly indicated support for the decriminalisation of sex work when launching the first South African National Sex Worker HIV Plan.
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Op-ed: Sex workers essential to meeting new HIV targets
South Africa has committed itself to reaching the world’s latest batch of ambitious targets, but it will not meet them without sex workers.
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Sex work, migration and HIV: South Africa’s health system can – and should – take a lead
Last week saw the launch of the South African Health Review (SAHR) 2016 edition at the Health Systems Trust Conference in Johannesburg.
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The Limpopo River and the Mediterranean Sea: Asylum Seeking and Migration Policing in South Africa and Europe
How is policing and securitising of refugee and migration policy in both South Africa and Europe creating new social divides and exclusions and exacerbating insecurity?
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