Loren Landau
Biographic Data
| ID | 149873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loren Landau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loren |
| FAMILY NAME | Landau |
| SIGNATURE | LANDAU L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0198-4748 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 730 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Mobile temporalities and political possibilities: Expanding the temporal turn in migration studies
This special issue advances a research agenda on mobile temporalities—the multiple, dynamic temporal orders that intersect with human mobility to shape political life. While the “temporal turn” in Migration Studies has illuminated the governance of migrants through time (waiting, delay, acceleration), we argue that it remains constrained by a linear, incorporative orientation that centers citizenship as the teleological endpoint. We propose a shi…
Mobility, diversity, & speculative racial capital: Navigating inclusion and exclusion in an African urban gateway
Pre-criminalizing race and space: Knowledge, migrant immorality, and Europe’s strategies for chronoscopic containment
Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation
This epilogue offers a blunt response to diverse explorations of varied forms of externalised bordering modalities.It argues that when taken together, such approaches reflect a form of chronoscopic policing that uses data and narrative framing to precriminalise potential migrants.Collaboration among agencies, states and researchers visibilise and moralise, framing poor people's inclinations to move as misguided, dangerous betrayals of law, commun…
Zombies, Miracles, and Memory: Towards a Research Agenda on Mobility, Temporality, and Political Possibility
This article introduces a research agenda for reimagining political possibilities by placing multiple temporalities at the centre of analyses of human mobility. While recent scholarship in migration studies has taken a ‘temporal turn’ by exploring how states use time to regulate movement – through delay, stoppage, or acceleration – we call for a broader conceptual shift: from understanding time as a tool of control to recognising temporality as a…
Now you see them, now you don’t: Performance and the politics of localizing (forced) migration governance in the Horn of Africa’s secondary cities
We critically examine a multi-year initiative led by Cities Alliance with municipalities and civil society groups in Somaliland, Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia to respond to refugees and migration. Adapting Goffman’s work, we posit that in ambiguous and resource-scarce political environments, network success rests on supporting two “frontstages” and a shared “backstage”. On stage one, authorities “visibilize” refugees to attract funding and national…
Ethics & exclusions: Reflections on the passing of Stephen Castles
Stephen Castles' passing presents a bittersweet opportunity for reflection. A diminutive man but towering scholarly figure, his personal generosity and extraordinary scope of research will have a lasting impact on many of us. That impact extends beyond the content of his publications, teaching and collegiality to ‘migration studies’, a field he pioneered more than perhaps any other single scholar. Through his own work, as a supervisor, and as an …
Running Them Out of Time: Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa
Immigration governance scholars often focus on formal, national regulations and how local implementation and resistance rations access to space and resources. Research into ‘xenophobic’ exclusion across South Africa suggests recalibrating research along two spatial and temporal dimensions. First, while legal and political discourse often evoke national principles, exclusive speech and action can be highly spatialised and distinctly sub-national. …
The centre cannot hold: Arrival, margins, and the politics of ambivalence introduction to ‘arrival at the margins’, a special issue of migration studies
This special issue calls on scholars to simultaneously centre and unsettle the margin: to recognise the multiplicity of margins as politically generative spaces, frequently contoured by sustained and varied forms of mobility. Taken together, the studies collected in this volume are a call to view margins as vital socio-political spaces and objects of study. They are created, transformed, or maintained through interactions among the multiple ethni…
An enclave entrepôt: The informal migration industry and Johannesburg’s socio-spatial transformation
The spatial concentration of production in cities attracts international and domestic labour in ways that change the character and scale of urban space. Drawing on two decades of research on migration and informal trading in Johannesburg, South Africa, this article argues that the global trade in Chinese ‘fast fashion’ interacts with South Africa’s immigration policy, transportation networks, informal trade and established migration infrastructur…
Migration and the African Timespace Trap: More Europe for the World, Less World for Europe
Drawing on an ever-evolving corpus of scholarly, political, and public texts, this article reflects on the temporalisation and territorialisation of Africa in response to Europe’s ‘migration crisis.’ Re-awakened fears of the African other and its own divisive internal politics have presented Europe’s leaders with a dilemma: how to contain African ambitions to move while remaining true to their self-professed commitment to individual freedom, univ…
Finding Ways through Eurospace: West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside
This is a book of stories: stories of people from Africa who have made their way to Europe; stories about how they move, how they make their lives, and how they engage with the spaces and people ar
Asynchronous mobilities: Hostility, Hospitality, and Possibilities of Justice
Metrics of success, status, and justice are founded on subjective narratives of spatialized pasts and futures. This article considers three moralised space-times – chronotopes – and their relations to people’s mobility within and from sub-Saharan Africa. The first stems from European efforts to promote ‘development at home’ which places Africans on a separate temporal trajectory. By discursively positioning Africans outside global space and futur…
Coercion or the social contract? Covid 19 and spatial (in)justice in African cities
Capacity, Complicity, and Subversion: Revisiting Collaborative Refugee Research in an Era of Containment
Measuring Municipal Capacity to Respond to Mobility
Mobility and urbanization are shaping cities in Southern Africa. Peri-urban areas in particular are transforming at such a pace that municipalities are struggling to keep up with the changes. Local government is trying to build appropriate capacity to respond to a mobile population, but it is not always clear where to focus capacity development efforts. Applying a diagnostic tool on local government capacity to respond to mobility, researchers bo…
A Chronotope of Containment Development: Europe's Migrant Crisis and Africa's Reterritorialisation
Europe has taken unprecedented levels of peacetime defensive actions against the perceived demands by African migrants for “absolute hospitality”. In collaboration with politicians across the Mediterranean, European political leaders are authoring a chronotope that removes Africa and Africans from global time. This discursive vision rests on an epistemological reorientation coding all Africans as potential migrants capable of threatening European…
Shallow Solidarities: Space and Socialities of Accommodation and Exclusion in Nairobi and Johannesburg
In Rongai, Kenya and Katlehong, South Africa, two mobile, peri-urban areas, socialities are being shaped by a usufruct ethics: a means of establishing communal logics and rights to space aimed at achieving protection and benefit without communal membership or community cohesion. The resulting modes of mutual accommodation are consequently shaped by spatial circumstance and pragmatic concerns rather than claims for ownership, representation, or cu…
Introduction: Forging a Study of Mobility, Integration and Belonging in Africa
This is an era in which varied forms of human mobility are redefining the meanings of home, community and belonging across the world, giving rise to novel forms of membership. This chapter argues that the experiences of Africans moving within the continent provide valuable insights into these memberships and the practical and ethical foundations on which they rest. It outlines the volume’s various case studies and highlights their contributions t…
Friendship fears and communities of convenience in Africa’s urban estuaries: Connection as measure of urban condition
Across the developing world, immigrants, internal migrants and long-time residents increasingly co-occupy and co-produce estuarial zones: sites loosely structured by the disciplines of state, formal employment or hegemonic cultural norms. In these hyper-diverse, often highly fluid sites, the appearance and form of friendships and solidarities are varied and revealing. Drawing on examples from rapidly transforming African cities – particularly Joh…
Southern Urbanism, Legalization, and the Limits of Migration Law
As a relatively well-defined subset of global migration law, refugee law and policy present important sites for contestation, agenda setting, normative pronouncements, and symbolic action. They are also an effective test of whether formal state obligations—in this case those outlined in the 1951 UN Refugee Convention—translate to protection in the weakly legalized environments in which most of the world's refugees reside. This essay asserts that …
Reflections on the New Urban Agenda
No borders: The politics of immigration control and resistance
This is an era of resistance. Or, rather, it is an era in which millions dissatisfied with current socioeconomic and politic orders of inequality and exclusion have called for resistance. King’s bo
Misreading Mobility? Bureaucratic Politics and Blindness in UN Migration Reports
Privilege and precarity: Public scripts and self-censorship in shaping South African social science
South African social science’s close relationship with politics and policy have long provided a source of vitality and intellectual direction. Although one of the field’s greatest strengths, intimacy with socio-political and economic transformations engenders solipsism and stagnation. Ironically, it also compromises scholars’ political autonomy and intellectual ethics by blinding analysts to the emerging socio-political formations which will shap…
The Dual Imperative in Refugee Research: Some Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Social Science Research on Forced Migration
Social scientists doing fieldwork in humanitarian situations often face a dual imperative: research should be both academically sound and policy relevant. We argue that much of the current research on forced migration is based on unsound methodology, and that the data and subsequent policy conclusions are often flawed or ethically suspect. This paper identifies some key methodological and ethical problems confronting social scientists studying fo…
Tactical Cosmopolitanism and Idioms of Belonging: Insertion and Self-Exclusion in Johannesburg
Research amongst immigrant groups in Johannesburg points to the emergence of distinctive ways of negotiating inclusion and belonging that transcend ethnic, national or transnational paradigms. Confronted with new South African nationalism, a restrictive immigration regime and xenophobia, immigrants have reacted with what we term ‘tactical cosmopolitanism’ to negotiate partial inclusion in South Africa's transforming society without becoming bound…
Transplants and Transients: Idioms of Belonging and Dislocation in Inner-City Johannesburg
South Africa's economic and political liberalization have engendered new patterns of immigration and urbanization that find South Africans and foreign migrants converging on the streets of inner-city Johannesburg. As they interact, citizens and non-nationals have developed competing idioms for relating to one another and the space they share. For South Africans, this often means appealing to a nativist idiom that locates commonality amidst an all…
A Chronotope of Containment Development: Europe's Migrant Crisis and Africa's Reterritorialisation
Europe has taken unprecedented levels of peacetime defensive actions against the perceived demands by African migrants for “absolute hospitality”. In collaboration with politicians across the Mediterranean, European political leaders are authoring a chronotope that removes Africa and Africans from global time. This discursive vision rests on an epistemological reorientation coding all Africans as potential migrants capable of threatening European…
Loving the alien? Citizenship, law, and the future in South Africa's demonic society
In May 2008, South Africa witnessed two shocking weeks of deadly attacks on foreigners and other suspect outsiders. This article makes sense of the violence with reference to an extended history of South African statecraft that both induced the conflict and hamstrung efforts to address it. In particular, it describes how decades of discursive and institutional efforts to control political and physical space have generated two demons with which th…
Introduction. Displacing Zimbabwe: Crisis and Construction in Southern Africa
Since early 2000, political violence and dramatic economic contraction have displaced people within and beyond Zimbabwe's borders on an extraordinary scale.1 The politicised state intrusions into Z
Protection and Dignity in Johannesburg: Shortcomings of South Africa's Urban Refugee Policy
Since the end of apartheid, South African cities have become destinations for refugees and asylum seekers from across Africa. In line with its constitutional commitments to human rights and dignity, South Africa has enacted a refugee policy intended to maximize freedom and protection by promoting refugees' temporary integration into local communities. In doing so, the law guarantees freedom of movement, access to many social services, and rights …
Living Within and Beyond Johannesburg: Exclusion, Religion, and Emerging Forms of Being
Drawing on original survey data and interviews, this article explores forms of exclusion, solidarity, and mutual recognition taking shape in Johannesburg among the city's new arrivals and long-term residents. It begins by highlighting three aspects of migrant life in central Johannesburg that situate affiliations with religion, kin, and space. The first is the relative absence of a self-defined and dominant host community; the second is the prese…
Conviviality, Rights, and Conflict in Africa's Urban Estuaries
Varied forms of mobility are rapidly transforming communities across the world. In Africa's cities and urban peripheries, the results of human movements include ever more diverse sets of new arrivals living alongside longer-term residents as they seek protection, profit, and passage elsewhere. Some move on and others return home, while still others shift within in search of new opportunities or security. In the absence of muscular state instituti…
Laws, Policies, or Social Position? Capabilities and the Determinants of Effective Protection in Four African Cities
Journal Article Laws, Policies, or Social Position? Capabilities and the Determinants of Effective Protection in Four African Cities Get access Loren B. Landau, Loren B. Landau African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marguerite Duponchel Marguerite Duponchel African Centre for Migration and Society, Unive…
Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures
David K. Leonard and Scott Strauss. Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures. Boulder, CoIo.: Lynne Rienner, 2003. Bibliography. Index. $42.00. Cloth. $17.95. Paper. Africa 's Stalled Development is an accessible and valuable contribution to the literature on Africa's troubled political economy. As the elaboration of a series of lectures first delivered by one of the authors, the book provides a concise summary of key debates …
Migration and the African Timespace Trap: More Europe for the World, Less World for Europe
Drawing on an ever-evolving corpus of scholarly, political, and public texts, this article reflects on the temporalisation and territorialisation of Africa in response to Europe’s ‘migration crisis.’ Re-awakened fears of the African other and its own divisive internal politics have presented Europe’s leaders with a dilemma: how to contain African ambitions to move while remaining true to their self-professed commitment to individual freedom, univ…
Beggaring belonging in Africa's no-man's lands: Diversity, Usufruct and the Ethics of Accommodation
In the migrant rich peri-urban sites of Rongai, Kenya and Katlehong, South Africa, social engagements are being shaped by usufruct ethics. The resulting modes of mutual accommodation are shaped by spatial circumstance and instrumental, pragmatic concerns rather than claims for ownership, representation, or cultural hegemony. In Kenya, ‘being cosmo’ enables residents to brace themselves against ethnicised violence and exclusion while opening space…
Bridges to Nowhere: Hosts, Migrants, and the Chimera of Social Capital in Three African Cities
Interest in migrant social networks and social capital has grown substantially over the past several decades. The relationship between "host" and "migrant" communities remains central to these scholarly debates. Recently urbanized cities in Africa, which include large numbers of "native-born" or internal migrants, challenge basic presumptions about host/migrant distinctions informing many of these discussions. Using comparable survey data from Jo…
Displacement, Estrangement and Sovereignty: Reconfiguring State Power in Urban South Africa
Academic writing often portrays migrants as either passive victims of violence and aid recipients or as courageous heroes facing horrific indifference and hazards. This article recodes them and their activities as potent forces for reshaping practices of state power. In this depiction, displacement also becomes a lens for re-evaluating the nature of sovereignty in urban Africa. Through its focus on Johannesburg this article explores how migrant c…
Wither Policy? Southern African Perspectives on Understanding Law, 'Refugee' Policy and Protection
Journal Article Wither Policy? Southern African Perspectives on Understanding Law, 'Refugee' Policy and Protection Get access Loren B. Landau, Loren B. Landau African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Roni Amit Roni Amit African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand Search for other works by this a…
Immigration and the State of Exception: Security and Sovereignty in East and Southern Africa
The imperative to protect national territory from the unplanned movements of people across borders has generated exceptional, often extra-legal, responses from countries throughout the world. Although intended to reassert state sovereignty, little is known about such exceptionalism's lasting effects on the nature of political authority and territorial control. Through a comparison of Johannesburg, South Africa and Western Tanzania's Kasulu Distri…
Friendship fears and communities of convenience in Africa’s urban estuaries: Connection as measure of urban condition
Across the developing world, immigrants, internal migrants and long-time residents increasingly co-occupy and co-produce estuarial zones: sites loosely structured by the disciplines of state, formal employment or hegemonic cultural norms. In these hyper-diverse, often highly fluid sites, the appearance and form of friendships and solidarities are varied and revealing. Drawing on examples from rapidly transforming African cities – particularly Joh…
Communities of Knowledge or Tyrannies of Partnership: Reflections on North-South Research Networks and the Dual Imperative
Journal Article Communities of Knowledge or Tyrannies of Partnership: Reflections on North–South Research Networks and the Dual Imperative Get access Loren B. Landau Loren B. Landau African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 555–570, https://…
Who to Blame and What's to Gain? Reflections on Space, State, and Violence in Kenya and South Africa
The ethnically and xenophobically motivated violence in Kenya and South Africa in the first half of 2008 has raised questions about its causes, the role of the state and the reality of current African societies. This article therefore analyses this violence, stating that although the violence in both countries had historical origins, there were also fundamental differences regarding the reasons for and the objectives of the violence. As a result,…
Coercion or the social contract? Covid 19 and spatial (in)justice in African cities
Stealth Humanitarianism: Negotiating Politics, Precarity and Performance Management in Protecting the Urban Displaced
Post-cold-war-era conflicts and the humanitarian political economy have driven two disparate yet concurrent shifts within the humanitarian field. On one hand, new public management-style reforms have increasingly focused organizations on efficiency, deliverables and technical proficiency. On the other, an international rights regime has demanded that humanitarian interventions and actions become more explicitly political. Nowhere are the tensions…
Urbanisation, nativism, and the rule of law in South Africa's ‘forbidden’ cities
South Africa's political liberalisation and strengthening regional ties have engendered new patterns of immigration and urbanisation, resulting in South African migrants and non-nationals converging on the streets of previously ‘forbidden’ cities. Conflicts over space, services and livelihoods are emerging as these groups meet and compete. To settle these disputes, South African citizens and politicians regularly rely on nativist discourses that …
An enclave entrepôt: The informal migration industry and Johannesburg’s socio-spatial transformation
The spatial concentration of production in cities attracts international and domestic labour in ways that change the character and scale of urban space. Drawing on two decades of research on migration and informal trading in Johannesburg, South Africa, this article argues that the global trade in Chinese ‘fast fashion’ interacts with South Africa’s immigration policy, transportation networks, informal trade and established migration infrastructur…
Beyond the Losers: Transforming Governmental Practice in Refugee-Affected Tanzania
Through a comparative study of two rural Tanzanian districts, this article assesses the potentially transformatory effects of a humanitarian influx—the arrival of refugees and relief—on a host community's regime of governmental practice. It reveals that while the influx of Burundian and Congolese refugees has not produced the harmful economic and environmental effects many claim, its influence on identity and perceptions of legal and administrati…
What Role Can History Play for the Newly Urbanized Women of Kenya and Tanzania
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Document. The humanitarian hangover: Transnationalization of governmental practice in Tanzania's refugee-populated areas
Document. The humanitarian hangover: transnationalization of governmental practice in Tanzania's refugee-populated areas Get access LB Landau LB Landau Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 1_and_2, April 2002, Pages 260–299, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/21.1_and_2.260 Published: 01 April 2002
Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania
Beyond the Losers: Transforming Governmental Practice in Refugee-Affected Tanzania
Through a comparative study of two rural Tanzanian districts, this article assesses the potentially transformatory effects of a humanitarian influx—the arrival of refugees and relief—on a host community's regime of governmental practice. It reveals that while the influx of Burundian and Congolese refugees has not produced the harmful economic and environmental effects many claim, its influence on identity and perceptions of legal and administrati…
The Dual Imperative in Refugee Research: Some Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Social Science Research on Forced Migration
Social scientists doing fieldwork in humanitarian situations often face a dual imperative: research should be both academically sound and policy relevant. We argue that much of the current research on forced migration is based on unsound methodology, and that the data and subsequent policy conclusions are often flawed or ethically suspect. This paper identifies some key methodological and ethical problems confronting social scientists studying fo…
Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures
David K. Leonard and Scott Strauss. Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures. Boulder, CoIo.: Lynne Rienner, 2003. Bibliography. Index. $42.00. Cloth. $17.95. Paper. Africa 's Stalled Development is an accessible and valuable contribution to the literature on Africa's troubled political economy. As the elaboration of a series of lectures first delivered by one of the authors, the book provides a concise summary of key debates …
Tragedy and Triumph: Mozambique Refugees in Southern Africa, 1977-2001
Challenge without transformation: Refugees, aid and trade in western Tanzania
Through a comparison of two rural Tanzanian districts, this paper traces the effects of a humanitarian influx - the arrival of refugees and international relief - on the economic practices of the host population in one western Tanzanian district (Kasulu). It argues that, despite popular and Government claims to the contrary, there is little evidence that the influx has effected a transformation of citizens' economic lives. While changes in exchan…
Urbanisation, nativism, and the rule of law in South Africa's ‘forbidden’ cities
South Africa's political liberalisation and strengthening regional ties have engendered new patterns of immigration and urbanisation, resulting in South African migrants and non-nationals converging on the streets of previously ‘forbidden’ cities. Conflicts over space, services and livelihoods are emerging as these groups meet and compete. To settle these disputes, South African citizens and politicians regularly rely on nativist discourses that …
Protection and Dignity in Johannesburg: Shortcomings of South Africa's Urban Refugee Policy
Since the end of apartheid, South African cities have become destinations for refugees and asylum seekers from across Africa. In line with its constitutional commitments to human rights and dignity, South Africa has enacted a refugee policy intended to maximize freedom and protection by promoting refugees' temporary integration into local communities. In doing so, the law guarantees freedom of movement, access to many social services, and rights …
Immigration and the State of Exception: Security and Sovereignty in East and Southern Africa
The imperative to protect national territory from the unplanned movements of people across borders has generated exceptional, often extra-legal, responses from countries throughout the world. Although intended to reassert state sovereignty, little is known about such exceptionalism's lasting effects on the nature of political authority and territorial control. Through a comparison of Johannesburg, South Africa and Western Tanzania's Kasulu Distri…
Transplants and Transients: Idioms of Belonging and Dislocation in Inner-City Johannesburg
South Africa's economic and political liberalization have engendered new patterns of immigration and urbanization that find South Africans and foreign migrants converging on the streets of inner-city Johannesburg. As they interact, citizens and non-nationals have developed competing idioms for relating to one another and the space they share. For South Africans, this often means appealing to a nativist idiom that locates commonality amidst an all…
Sword and Salve: Confronting New Wars and Humanitarian Crises. By Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss
Despite massive increases in spending on emergency assistance and a flowering of aid organizations and coordinating bodies, there is angst among humanitarians. Ethical dilemmas, disappointments, and repeated mistakes raise questions about the ability to assist those victimized by the world's new conflicts. As Michael Barnett notes in the introduction to Hoffman and Weiss’ new book, ‘Humanitarian organizations have reacted to the new wars but have…
Can We Talk and Is Anybody Listening? Reflections on IASFM 10, 'Talking Across Borders: New Dialogues in Forced Migration
Journal Article Can We Talk and Is Anybody Listening? Reflections on IASFM 10, ‘Talking Across Borders: New Dialogues in Forced Migration’ Get access Loren B. Landau Loren B. Landau Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag X3, Wits 2050, South Africa [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 20, Issue 3, September 2007…
Displacement, Estrangement and Sovereignty: Reconfiguring State Power in Urban South Africa
Academic writing often portrays migrants as either passive victims of violence and aid recipients or as courageous heroes facing horrific indifference and hazards. This article recodes them and their activities as potent forces for reshaping practices of state power. In this depiction, displacement also becomes a lens for re-evaluating the nature of sovereignty in urban Africa. Through its focus on Johannesburg this article explores how migrant c…
Who to Blame and What's to Gain? Reflections on Space, State, and Violence in Kenya and South Africa
The ethnically and xenophobically motivated violence in Kenya and South Africa in the first half of 2008 has raised questions about its causes, the role of the state and the reality of current African societies. This article therefore analyses this violence, stating that although the violence in both countries had historical origins, there were also fundamental differences regarding the reasons for and the objectives of the violence. As a result,…
Living Within and Beyond Johannesburg: Exclusion, Religion, and Emerging Forms of Being
Drawing on original survey data and interviews, this article explores forms of exclusion, solidarity, and mutual recognition taking shape in Johannesburg among the city's new arrivals and long-term residents. It begins by highlighting three aspects of migrant life in central Johannesburg that situate affiliations with religion, kin, and space. The first is the relative absence of a self-defined and dominant host community; the second is the prese…
Passage, Profit, Protection, and the Challenge of Participation: Building and Belonging in African Cities
Introduction. Displacing Zimbabwe: Crisis and Construction in Southern Africa
Since early 2000, political violence and dramatic economic contraction have displaced people within and beyond Zimbabwe's borders on an extraordinary scale.1 The politicised state intrusions into Z
Loving the alien? Citizenship, law, and the future in South Africa's demonic society
In May 2008, South Africa witnessed two shocking weeks of deadly attacks on foreigners and other suspect outsiders. This article makes sense of the violence with reference to an extended history of South African statecraft that both induced the conflict and hamstrung efforts to address it. In particular, it describes how decades of discursive and institutional efforts to control political and physical space have generated two demons with which th…
Tactical Cosmopolitanism and Idioms of Belonging: Insertion and Self-Exclusion in Johannesburg
Research amongst immigrant groups in Johannesburg points to the emergence of distinctive ways of negotiating inclusion and belonging that transcend ethnic, national or transnational paradigms. Confronted with new South African nationalism, a restrictive immigration regime and xenophobia, immigrants have reacted with what we term ‘tactical cosmopolitanism’ to negotiate partial inclusion in South Africa's transforming society without becoming bound…
Laws, Policies, or Social Position? Capabilities and the Determinants of Effective Protection in Four African Cities
Journal Article Laws, Policies, or Social Position? Capabilities and the Determinants of Effective Protection in Four African Cities Get access Loren B. Landau, Loren B. Landau African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marguerite Duponchel Marguerite Duponchel African Centre for Migration and Society, Unive…
Bridges to Nowhere: Hosts, Migrants, and the Chimera of Social Capital in Three African Cities
Interest in migrant social networks and social capital has grown substantially over the past several decades. The relationship between "host" and "migrant" communities remains central to these scholarly debates. Recently urbanized cities in Africa, which include large numbers of "native-born" or internal migrants, challenge basic presumptions about host/migrant distinctions informing many of these discussions. Using comparable survey data from Jo…
On the Politics of Exclusion and their Transcendence (a commentary)
Communities of Knowledge or Tyrannies of Partnership: Reflections on North-South Research Networks and the Dual Imperative
Journal Article Communities of Knowledge or Tyrannies of Partnership: Reflections on North–South Research Networks and the Dual Imperative Get access Loren B. Landau Loren B. Landau African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 555–570, https://…
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