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Vanya Gastrow

@VGastrow

Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies. Interested in migration, justice and policing.

Joined January 2019
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@CrimeHub17 Oct 2025
Pressure for change in #SouthAfrica’s #policing is higher than ever. How can measurable, systemic improvements be achieved? Join our 2025 Evidence-Based Policing SA conference online or in person, Cape Town, 27-28 Oct crimehub.org/events/evidence… @HannsSeidelSA
Evidence-Based Policing SA Conference 2025: how to achieve measurable change | Crimehub

Evidence-Based Policing SA Conference 2025: how to achieve measurable change | Crimehub

This year’s conference focuses on pressing, high-impact topics that can directly improve policing.

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SA Crime Quarterly will return to @issafrica, with Jody van der Heyde and me as managing editors. We invite article submissions to our 2025 editions: March - Open focus June - Policing September - Violence prevention December - Anti-corruption More info: crimehub.org/about-us/career…
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Jonathan Jansen details in his forthcoming book with Wits University Press, Corrupted: A study of chronically dysfunctional universities, how xenophobia is threatening the future of the SA university. universityworldnews.com/post… @JJ_Stellies @dailymaverick
Xenophobia is threatening the future of the SA university

Xenophobia is threatening the future of the SA university

One of the most serious threats facing higher education and the scientific enterprise in South Africa is the rising tide of xenophobia in the halls of...

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Another great day @OpenBookFest. Huge admiration for the combinations of authors, the topics, the timekeeping and the facilitation. Audience responses in a nutshell: empathy/concern (xenophobia), ovation (for the detectives), cheers (moms +daughters). ❤️
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Beth le Roux@bethlrx23 Aug 2022
I've got a new piece on the @WitsPress centenary online in the Conversation. Support local university presses! theconversation.com/a-south-… via @TC_Africa
A South African university publisher makes it to 100. A rare and important event

A South African university publisher makes it to 100. A rare and important event

Wits University Press is one of only 15 active university publishers in Africa – crucial for scholarship about the continent.

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We are delighted to be supporting the @OpenBookFest once again this year, as it returns to the @District6Museum’s Homecoming Centre on 2 - 4 September. Learn more about this incredible event on @CapeTownEtc. capetownetc.com/cape-town/gr…
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Wits University Press celebrates all women authors this Women's Month! @BarbraStrident @BafatiBebumbene @bobbiboswell @BooysenS2 @VGastrow @jennyperkel @NadiaDavids9 @LitGender_up Happy Women's Day to all women!
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Don't stay neutral because of it doesn't concern you if u see something wrong say something responsibility is all the time on us #beagoodhuman
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SERI@SERI_RightsSA3 Aug 2022
READ | Statement by @DOJCD_ZA condemning attacks on SERI. In the statement, Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mr John Jeffery, rightly characterises the attacks on human rights organisations as “an attack on democracy itself” | bit.ly/3bsqIju
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SERI@SERI_RightsSA1 Aug 2022
[PRESS CONFERENCE] Today at 13:00, SERI will hold a press conference on the @CityofJoburgZA's incitement of violence against SERI & its staff following last week's High Court order involving the unlawful prohibition of informal trade. Details here | bit.ly/3cXexvB
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Ever since the eruption of widespread xenophobic violence in 2008, the widely deployed claim that “foreign nationals are taking our jobs” is now accepted as fact by many. But statistics and research prove the opposite. dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
Migrants and the world of work in SA: exposing the ‘job stealing’ lies of the xenophobes

Migrants and the world of work in SA: exposing the ‘job stealing’ lies of the xenophobes

Ever since the eruption of widespread xenophobic violence in 2008, the widely deployed claim that “foreign nationals are taking our jobs” is now accepted as fact by many. But statistics and research...

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GroundUp@GroundUp_News23 Jun 2022
As deadline approaches Zimbabweans face a stark choice: start from zero in a broken country or live undocumented in SA groundup.org.za/article/mass… @helensuzmanfdn @homeaffairssa @passop @scalabrinict
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#HUMABookLaunch | June 6th - 4PM SAST With @VGastrow (@ClsUct) on | 'Citizen and Pariah. Somali traders and the regulation of difference in South Africa (@NYUpress, 2022) Discussant: Abdelkadir Mohamed (@SARefugee_Led) Open access chapter & register: huma.uct.ac.za/event/vanya-g…
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