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Welcome to a week of knowledge sharing at the 2026 Spring School & Policy Dialogue: Researching Migration & Health.
To mark the beginning of our time together, please take a moment to watch a short welcome video from ACMS' Jo Vearey: migration.org.za/the-countdo…
2025 saw spikes in health xenophobia. 2026 is seeing a rise in violence.
New publication from ACMS' Xenowatch. Available here: xenowatch.ac.za/xenowatch-fa…
NEW PUBLICATION: What does the data tell us about xenophobic discrimination in South Africa between 2025 and June 2026?
Shifting from health xenophobia in 2025 to physical violence in 2026. Gauteng & KZN hit hardest: xenowatch.ac.za/xenowatch-fa…
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NEW PUBLICATION: What does the data tell us about xenophobic discrimination in South Africa between 2025 and June 2026?
Shifting from health xenophobia in 2025 to physical violence in 2026. Gauteng & KZN hit hardest: xenowatch.ac.za/xenowatch-fa…
Join the 2026 Spring School & Policy Dialogue on Researching Migration & Health
🗓️ 27-30 Oct | Hybrid (Wits & Online)
📍 Policy Dialogue: 29 Oct
🔗 Spring School Zoom: wits-za.zoom.us/j/9350775267…
🔗 Policy Dialogue Zoom: wits-za.zoom.us/j/9421525835…
Queries: [email protected]
NEW PUBLICATION: Examining the ways in which structural violence, austerity, and health governance shape migrant exclusion in public healthcare in South Africa
Available here: link.springer.com/article/10…
EXTENDED: Postgraduate Applications Closing 30 November 2026
Applications: wits.ac.za/postgraduate/appl…
More Info: [email protected]
Study Options: Full-time or part-time options available.
Funding: Limited funding is available for early applicants.
📰NEWS: Prof. @lorenlandau tells @TimesLIVE how 30 June has passed & left damage: “People are displaced, stuck at borders, stuck in these centres in Durban, people whose property has been looted or destroyed & they need an immediate humanitarian response.” tinyurl.com/49dkrt3h
📰 NEWS: SA's #antimigrant #protests aren't simply grassroots. As ACMS's Prof. @jovearey told @Independent: "This isn't sort of a grassroots mobilisation, this is something that is a very clearly organised and manipulated space." tinyurl.com/3e3vx7rf #migration #xenophobia
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Prof. Landau (@ACMSWits): "Anti-migrant sentiments are heightened by underlying issues, service delivery, inequality, joblessness. With elections coming, more people are uneasy."
omny.fm/shows/next-africa/wh…
#SouthAfrica #Migration
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Constitutional Court finds certain Refugee Act provisions unconstitutional, invalid.
news24.com/southafrica/crime…
📰 OP-ED: As SA reflects on recent anti-migrant marches, this @dailymaverick op-ed by ACMS's Prof. @jovearey & Dr @Bexjwalker reminds us that violence is not only what unfolds in the streets—it is also what is built through policy and bureaucracy. tinyurl.com/aj99zfpr #border
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Prof. Loren Landau (@ACMSWits): "These movements have never been spontaneous. They are organised by leaders seeking power."
READ on France24: france24.com/fr/afrique/2026…
#Xenophobia #SouthAfrica
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Tourists cancel trips to SA as xenophobia surges.
Prof. Landau (@ACMSWits): "Removing undocumented migrants is completely impossible. Something dramatic will happen; it could even be violence."
READ via Yle: yle.fi/a/74-20233235
#Xenophobia #SouthAfrica
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Prof. Loren Landau (@ACMSWits) on SmileFM:
"Vigilante groups are extractive movements; they benefit themselves. They've been given attention in the media, at the Union Buildings, & have gained traction in communities."
LISTEN: xenowatch.ac.za/podcast-risi…
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VIDEO: In a recent TV interview with @eNCA, ACMS co-director Professor @jovearey reflected on the ongoing situation involving Malawian nationals sheltering at Sherwood Hall in Durban, and what this tells us about migration governance in S.A.: tinyurl.com/425ecvdk #migrants
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"This fight is for all of us" – ACMS report on movement building for migrant rights in SA. The fight is not for migrants alone, it is for all who are excluded.
Read: xenowatch.ac.za/this-fight-i…
#Xenowatch #SouthAfrica #Xenophobia
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📻 PODCAST: SA households could be hit with fines of up to R100,000 for employing undocumented foreign nationals. ACMS senior researcher & co-director, Associate Professor @jovearey, discusses this matter on @METROFMSA. Listen here: tinyurl.com/3fhs7e59 #undocumented #migrants
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#Xenowatch cannot document what is not reported.
If you witness or experience xenophobic discrimination, report it through our secure channels:
xenowatch.ac.za/how-to-repor…
#HowToReport
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📑 NEW JOURNAL ARTICLE: ACMS senior researcher and co-director Dr. Jean Pierre Misago recently published this paper titled: 'Exclusionary cohesion? Rethinking the nexus between social cohesion and xenophobic violence in South Africa.' tinyurl.com/bdd4u4xf #xenophobia #violence
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Will the government's new migration strategy work?
Prof. Loren Landau (@ACMSWits) unpacks it with Africa Melane on @CapeTalk:
youtu.be/UZa_QUX0gjY?si=dqOT…
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#Migration #SouthAfrica #Policy