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Migration and Displacement in South Africa

HDRO Conference Room
18 February 2009

Time: 12.30- 2.00 p.m.

Topic

With the political liberation that accompanied the end of South Africa’s apartheid era, domestic and regional migration patterns in the country also underwent major changes. The ensuing integration of South Africa with the Southern African Development Community brought a significant increase in intra-regional migration involving both legal and undocumented cross-border movements of people for a variety of purposes. The South Africa country case study provides an historical and analytical overview of migration and displacement vis-à-vis human development in South Africa.

About the Speaker

Loren Landau is the Director of the Forced Migration Studies Programme (www.migration.org.za) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has a PhD and MA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has widely published on the topic of migration and Africa, and his current research explores sovereignty, migration and urban transformation, and state-society relations.

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