Posts In: mobility
Research on the Move: Exploring WhatsApp as a tool for understanding the intersections between migration, mobility, health and gender in South Africa
In this paper, the authors reflect on a four month pilot project which explored the use of WhatsApp Messenger – a popular mobile phone application used widely in sub Saharan Africa – and assessed its feasibility as a research tool with migrant and mobile populations in order to inform a larger study that would address these challenges.
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Moving Words: Exploring mobility and urban inclusion through poetry based methods
Find out more about the Moving Words Project, which is a two-year collaboration between the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Edinburgh.
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Southern Africa needs better health care for women and girls on the move
Health responses need to take on board the fact that the number of women and girls migrating across borders as well as within countries is growing.
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Urban Health in Johannesburg: Migration, Exclusion and Inequality
In this issue, insights into how migration and mobility are mediating health within an African urban context are brought together.
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ACMS as a Centre of Excellence in Mobility and Migration
Fifteenth November 2018 saw the launch of the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) as the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA)’s Centre of Excellence in Mobility and Migration.
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Want to know more about migration?
What are the causes and consequences of migration and displacement? What methods of enquiry are appropriate for studying migration? Are migration and human mobility in Africa different from similar processes elsewhere?
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Routes, locations, and social imaginary: a comparative study of the on-going production of geographies in Somali forced migration
Drawing on the thresholds approach, a model that incorporates geography and mobility studies to understand migration from the perspective of migrants, this article examines the importance of location and route(s) in determining the journeys of Somali migrants.
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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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(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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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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Routes and Rites to the City: Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg
This project is exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It analyses transnational and local migration in contemporary and historical perspective, along with movements of commodities, ideas, sounds and colours within the city.
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Mobility, migration and generalised HIV epidemics: a focus on sub-Saharan Africa
Vearey, J. (2016) Mobility, migration and generalised HIV epidemics: a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. In: Thomas, F. (ed) Handbook of Migration and Health. Edward Elgar Publishing: UK
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