Posts In: cross-border
Behind the Masks: Mental health, marginalisation and Covid-19
maHp/ACMS researchers Rebecca Walker and Jo Vearey discuss how Covid-19 is impacting mental health and existing inequalities in South Africa.
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Negotiated Precarity in the Global South: A Case Study of Migration and Domestic Work in South Africa
In this journal article maHp/ACMS associate Zaheera Jinnah explores precarity as a conceptual framework to understand the intersection of migration and low-waged work in the global south.
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PODCAST: Academic Digest: Exploring cross-border migration policies, ARV treatment continuity
Aldrin Sampear of PowerFM 98.7’s Power Talk/ Academic Digest show recently spoke to maHp/ACMS doctoral researcher Kudakwashe Vanyoro, whose MA study sought to understand the practices that frontline healthcare workers adopt to navigate a space of blurred policy, in relation to migration.
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Woman is the thread: maHp intern covers the Mwangaza Mama book launch
maHp intern Elena Olivieri blogs about the launch of the Mwangaza Mama project book.
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Mwangaza Mama (2019)
Mwangaza Mama is a creative storytelling project that was undertaken in collaboration with a small group of cross-border migrant women living in Johannesburg. Inspired by previous MoVE work, the main aim of the two-year project was to learn more about migrant women’s everyday experiences of the city by including them in the production of knowledge about issues that affect them.
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The burden of care
In a world and especially in a country where women’s bodies are systematically oppressed and violated – and where poor, black, foreign bodies are easily treated as disposable and unimportant – being a mother adds layers of fear, threat and physical and emotional burden.
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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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Towards a migration-aware health system in South Africa: a strategic opportunity to address health inequity
This article provides an overview of the associations between migration and health in South Africa, and calls for the urgent development of ‘migration-aware’ health systems.
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Lessons learned from a student field trip
maHp intern Edward Govere blogs about a recent field trip to Bushbuckridge and Musina. The objective of the trip was to expand the students’ knowledge of international migrant workers who live and work on farms, as well as some of the most remote rural areas in South Africa.
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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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Urban Health in Johannesburg: Migration, Exclusion and Inequality
Cities of the global south—including Johannesburg—are associated with unplanned and unmanaged urban growth; poor urban governance (which is predominantly reactive rather than proactive); migration and mobility; and the resultant pressure on access to adequate services, including water, sanitation, housing, and healthcare.
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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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