Events
Upcoming Events & Seminars

Our events attract a wide and appropriate audience from across all sectors of society. These include seminars, workshops and conferences.

PODCAST: Serge Alain Nitegeka’s ACMS walkabout of ‘Black Subjects’
On 2 September, about 20 African Centre for Migrat
VIDEOS: ‘The Borders of Transformation’ colloquium
Earlier this month (4 September 2025), the Univers
AUDIO SLIDE: ‘Demographic Change and Migration Policy’ seminar presentation
As part of the ACMS Public Seminar Series, Dr Andr
ACMS Seminar: Home and Away – An Analysis of Out of Country Voting in South African Elections
Presenter: Dr Catherine Musuva Date: Wednesday, 17
‘The Borders of Transformation: The Continent and the South African University’ colloquium
This colloquium asks how universities in South Afr
WiP Seminar: The Securitisation of Migration: Consequences of EU Externalisation Policies on Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Africa
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ACMS seminar: On the move — where does wellbeing fit?
Date: Monday, 25 August 2025 Time: 10:00 – 11:30
ACMS Seminar: Managing the Transition – Adjusting Migration Policies to Respond to a World Undergoing Demographic Change
Presenter: Dr Andrew Selee Date: Wednesday, 20 Aug
ACMS Seminar: Queering Sex work and Mobility in South Africa
Presenter: Ntokozo Yingwana Date: Wednesday, 6 Aug
ACMS Seminar: The ‘Oil and Water’ Dynamics of Migration Governance in West Africa: A Bottom-up Perspective in Niger
Presenter: Dr Balkissa Daouda Diallo Date: Wednesd
ACMS Seminar: ‘From Deprivation to Mobilisation: Towards a Multideterminant Model of Xenophobic Violence in South Africa’
Presenter: Dr Jean Pierre Misago Date: 12 March 20
‘Atlas of Uncertainty’ exhibit coming to Jozi
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Third Global Consultation on the Health of Refugees and Migrants
The 3rd Global Consultation on the Health of Refug
Chair in Mobility and the Politics of Difference supports Gender and Geography
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BOOK LAUNCH: Cosmopolitan Refugees
Join us for the launch of Cosmopolitan Refugees: S
Slavery, Sex Work and the Paradox of Fugitivity 
Book Launch: African Queer and Trans Displacements
Conference: African Queer and Trans Displacements
Virtual Discussion: Arrival at the Margins
Virtual Book Talk: Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education
Panel Discussion: Implications of Xenophobic Violence for Trade & Transformation
BOOK LAUNCH: “The Blinded City: Ten Years in Inner-City Johannesburg” by Dr Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
The UK-Rwanda Asylum Deal: What does it mean for refugees and the global refugee regime?
Call for Papers & Panels: African Queer & Trans Displacements
Applying Behavioral Science in Programming to Address Xenophobia & Promote Social Cohesion
Roundtable & Public Discussion: Rethinking Knowledge Politics in Migration Research, Teaching & Practice
Civil Society Consultative Meeting: Governing for Migrant Inclusion in Post-Election Johannesburg
Book Launch: Seeking Sanctuary: Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration
Call to Participate in a Workshop on Rethinking Knowledge Politics in Migration Research, Teaching & Practice
PROTECT Expert Forum: Exploring the Boundaries of International Protection and Human Rights Instruments in South(ern) Africa
PROTECT Expert Forum: Protection Issues and Solutions for LGBTIQ+ People in Contexts of Forced Displacement
Exploring the Boundaries of Protection and Human Rights for International Migrants in South Africa: A Facilitated Conversation
PROTECT Midterm Conference
Healthcare in transit: Quantifying the health needs of migrants across the Limpopo
Present and imminent: Crises and complexity in Mexico and South Africa
International protection and the Global Compacts in the time of Covid-19: lessons and challenges from South(ern) Africa
The Two UN Compacts – Refugees and Migrants: Challenges and Implementation in Europe
Workshop Invitation: Getting the Future Write: Early Career Publishing Series
Building Solidarity in the time of COVID-19 Webinar Series: Access to Health Care – A Regional Approach
Public Positions: The Politics of the Pandemic
Migration to South Africa – Perspectives from Civil Society and Current Challenges in Times of COVID-19
Alternatives to Detention: Advocacy, Challenges, and Opportunities in Southern Africa
Old and New African Diaspora Networks: Before and After COVID-19
Black Markets: Transatlantic Architectures of Care
No Asylum for ‘Infiltrators’: Israel’s Dysfunctional Asylum System
The edge economies of migration
Migrant’s remittances and living conditions of households of origin: Evidence from Kinshasa
Roundtable: Immigration, policing and South Africa’s future politics
Racial borders
Queer(y)ing kinship in an age of assisted reproduction and LGBTQ rights
Precarious Labourers of Love: Queer Kinship, Reproductive Labour and Biopolitics
Afrophobia and the Law: How has the South African Judiciary Responded to Cases of Afrophobia?
Public Symposium on Migration and Health in Southern Africa and The South African Launch of the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health
Determinants of immigrants’ feeling of sense of belonging in the midst of host hostility: The experience of second-generation Nigerian immigrants in Johannesburg
Political economy of informalisation
Book Launch: Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa
“The Personal is Political”: Engaging in arts-based teaching and research methods to center wellness in classroom and community spaces
“What futures were they ‘waiting’ for anyway?”: Addis Ababan youth in cultural dissent in the years leading up to the Ethiopian revolution, c.1950s-1974
Narrative representation and analysis of health and migration: An Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to African literary studies
Barriers to Asylum Seekers Claiming Their Rights in South Africa’s Asylum Management System
Migration in North and Central America: Myths and Realities
The spectacle versus the ordinary: Urban change and narratives of difference along a ‘Chinese’ street in suburban Johannesburg
Places of Promise or Poverty? Urban informal Settlements in South Africa
Gathering stories from migrants and the women left behind: A methods perspective
I Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis
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Basic Income: The Potential for Gendered Empowerment?
Transnational motherhood and economic failure: Latina immigrant domestic workers and the children they left behind
A hustle for profit and protection: What informal mining reveals about governance in South Africa
Creating a domestic refugee regime in Kenya: The transfer of responsibility for refugee affairs from UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to Government of Kenya
Repoliticizing international migration narratives? Critical Reflections on the Global Forum on Migration and Development
The Role of the Church and the Challenge of Local Integration
The Price of Hope: The Fortification of Immigrants in Johannesburg
The Effects of Governing Unauthorized Migration on Citizenship
Pentecosmopolis: Lagos and its Pentecostalisms
Migration across borders: from global to local experiences and perspectives
Why Europe should NOT serve as best practice: A critical view on how Europe tries to approach the continuous movement of refugees to Europe
Gathering family histories from migrants and the women left behind: A methods perspective
Immigration and the labor market outcomes of natives in developing countries: A case study of South Africa
Youth on the move: Reframing and representing youth migration
Do Migrants matter? A Comparative Analysis of the Causes of Death Among Sub-Saharan Immigrants and Local South Africans, 2009-2015
The Regional Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa
The Safe Country Concept in International Agreements: Past, Present and Future of State Practice
Social cohesion and violence prevention symposium
Lagos Budding 50: Storytelling project on Migration and Resilience
The Meanings of Women’s Mobilities: Gender Ideals and Female Mobility in West Africa
MoVE 2017: Two Arts-based Research Projects
Academy for African Urban Diversity launched at the African Centre for Migration & Society
Soft infrastructure: Recalibrating aesthetics, economies, and urban epistemologies
Addressing the issues behind the European refugee crisis: Towards new global solidarities and solutions
Staying with complexity: Narratives of arriving and living in Durban
Urban Refugees: Resilience, social networks and policy implications lessons from Nairobi
Routes And Rites To The City: Mobility, Diversity And Religious Space In Johannesburg
Mystic motives: Re-evaluating clandestine migration out of Senegal
Media portrayal of immigration in the South African media, 2011-2015
The migration management of refugees in contemporary South Africa: the erosion of the refugee regime?
Public exhibition and discussion: Know my story
Mapping xenophobic violence in South Africa: Opportunities and pitfalls of hot-spot and causal analysis in combatting xenophobic violence
An “NGOisation” of the social cohesion policies between migrants and South Africans? Initial results of an ethnographic investigation of the Cape Town migrant cause
Migrants, city making and the value creation processes in a multiscalar perspective: Space and time in migration scholarship
Book launch and discussion: The mayor of Mogadishu
“We are at war with the Devil”: Politics of exclusion of LGBTI groups amongst conservative Christian groups in Uganda
Internationalizing informality: Work, precarity and vulnerability
EU “refugee crisis”: Responses East and West and beyond
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