B Camminga (*they) joined the African Centre for Migration & Society as a Postdoctoral Researcher in 2018. B’s previous work tracked the conceptual journeying of the term ‘transgender’ from the Global North along with the physically embodied journeying of transgender asylum seekers from countries within Africa to South Africa and considered the interrelationships between the two.
Read MoreBecky Walker is a postdoctoral research fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS). With a background in Social Anthropology and Development, Becky’s work explores women’s experiences of everyday violence in both South Asia and Southern Africa.
Read MoreDuduzile Ndlovu is a postdoctoral research fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS). Her doctoral research was on ‘Gender, Generational Difference and Memory: An exploration of art on Gukurahundi in Johannesburg, South Africa’.
Read MoreElsa Oliveira is a postdoctoral researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), Wits University, where she is also the co-coordinator of the MoVE (methods:visual:explore) project.
Read MoreGreta Schuler is a PhD candidate in creative writing and a doctoral fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS). Her research focuses on the lives of migrant sex workers in Johannesburg. Greta is involved in facilitating creative writing workshops with sex workers, and coordinates the Izwi Lethu newsletter project, as part of MoVE.
Read MoreJo Vearey is an Associate Professor and the Director of the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand. She holds an Honorary Fellowship with the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, and a Senior Fellowship at the Centre for Peace, Development and Democracy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Read MoreJohn Marnell is a doctoral researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS). His work uses visual and narrative methodologies to explore the lived experiences of LGBTIQ migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Read MoreKudakwashe Vanyoro is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand, in South Africa interested in migration, temporality, borders, humanitarianism and governance in Africa.
Read MoreLenore Longwe is the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) operations manager. She has a degree in Public Administration from the University of the Western Cape. Her previous employment includes project administrator at Umsubomvu Youth Fund and Admin Coordinator at Robben Island Museum.
Read MoreNaledi is the postgraduate teaching administrator and a member of the maHp public engagement team.
Read MoreNtokozo Yingwana joined the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), at the University of the Witwatersrand) in April 2016 as the Communication and Research Uptake Officer, and a PhD Candidate.
Read MoreQuinten Edward Williams is a Johannesburg based artist. Arts-based research projects provide him with the opportunity to work with nuanced relationships that are embedded in specific places.
Read MoreTackson Makandwa is a postdoctoral research fellow. He worked as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Great Zimbabwe University, and as a processing officer in the Ministry of Home Affairs before joining the ACMS, where he also undertook an MA in Migration & Displacement.
Read MoreThea de Gruchy is a postdoctoral research fellow and has been at the ACMS since undertaking her MA in Migration & Displacement in 2013. Her PhD was funded through a Wellcome Trust doctoral fellowship, awarded through maHp, and explored the making and effects of policy around migration and health for migrant farm workers in Vhembe District, Limpopo.
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