51 research outputs found
Authority and Inclusion: Reconsidering Integration in a Fragmented Age
This paper explores the meaning of refugee integration in a fragmented age where multi-culturalism is said to be dead. It focuses on the results of recent research in four cities
in South and East Africa, which showed an increasing tendency towards new forms of association that the author termed âcommunities of convenienceâ. The author reflects upon
the lessons that these highly mobile African urban contexts offer for refugee integration in Britain
Passage, Profit, Protection and the Challenge of Participation
Accepting that successful 'development' is premised on a population's participation in a collective undertaking, we must understand urban residents' interactions and ambitions. In African cities being transformed by geographic and social mobility, it is umigration, urbanization, African cities, social cohesion, integration,
LSE Festival 2021: trying to keep people out of cities will drive them underground
States have tried to limit peopleâs movements in an effort to contain COVID-19. But keeping people out of cities denies them the ability to better their lives and escape from persecution and repressive hierarchies. Underground economies will flourish unless we empower city authorities to act independently, says Loren B Landau (University of Oxford and University of the Witwatersrand)
Human Development Impacts of Migration: South Africa Case Study
Controls on human mobility and efforts to undermine them continue to shape South Africaâs politics, economy, and society. Despite the need for improved policy responses to human mobility, reform is hindered by lack of capacity, misinformation, and anti-migrant sentiments within and outside of government. This report outlines these trends and tensions by providing a broad overview of the limited demographic and socio-economic data available on migration to and within South Africa. Doing so highlights the spatialised aspects of human mobility, trends centred on and around the countryâs towns and cities. It also finds significant development potential in international migrantsâ skills and entrepreneurialism. By enhancing remittances and trade, non-nationals may also expand markets for South African products and services. Despite these potential benefits, there are severe obstacles to immigration reform. These include a renewed South African populism; the influence of a strong anti-trafficking lobby; a European Union (EU) agenda promoting stricter border controls; poor implementation capacity; and endemic corruption among police and immigration officials. There are different, but equally significant problems in reforming frameworks governing domestic mobility including perceptions that in-migration is an inherent drain on municipal budgets. Recognising these limitations, the report concludes with three recommendations. (1) A conceptual reconsideration of the divisions between documented and undocumented migrants; between voluntary and forced migrants; and between international and domestic migration. (2) An analytical respatialisation in future planning and management scenarios involving regional and local bodies in evaluating, designing and implementing policy. (3) To situate migration and its management within global debates over governance and development and for âmigration mainstreamingâ into all aspects of governance. The success of any of these initiatives will require better data, the skills to analyse that data, and the integration of data into planning processes.migration, urbanisation, governance, South Africa, policy reform, capabilities
Displacement and difference in Lubumbashi
Signs on the outskirts of the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) welcome visitors to âthe city of peaceâ. Lubumbashi has a reputation as a haven of tolerance in a violent nation but how are displaced people treated
Human Development Impacts of Migration: South Africa Case Study
Controls on human mobility and efforts to undermine them continue to shape South Africaâs
politics, economy, and society. Despite the need for improved policy responses to human
mobility, reform is hindered by lack of capacity, misinformation, and anti-migrant sentiments
within and outside of government. This report outlines these trends and tensions by providing a
broad overview of the limited demographic and socio-economic data available on migration to
and within South Africa. Doing so highlights the spatialised aspects of human mobility, trends
centred on and around the countryâs towns and cities. It also finds significant development
potential in international migrantsâ skills and entrepreneurialism. By enhancing remittances and
trade, non-nationals may also expand markets for South African products and services. Despite
these potential benefits, there are severe obstacles to immigration reform. These include a
renewed South African populism; the influence of a strong anti-trafficking lobby; a European
Union (EU) agenda promoting stricter border controls; poor implementation capacity; and
endemic corruption among police and immigration officials. There are different, but equally
significant problems in reforming frameworks governing domestic mobility including
perceptions that in-migration is an inherent drain on municipal budgets. Recognising these
limitations, the report concludes with three recommendations. (1) A conceptual reconsideration
of the divisions between documented and undocumented migrants; between voluntary and forced
migrants; and between international and domestic migration. (2) An analytical respatialisation in
future planning and management scenarios involving regional and local bodies in evaluating,
designing and implementing policy. (3) To situate migration and its management within global
debates over governance and development and for âmigration mainstreamingâ into all aspects of
governance. The success of any of these initiatives will require better data, the skills to analyse
that data, and the integration of data into planning processes
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