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Co-Director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab, University of the Witwatersrand

Loren B Landau is South African Research Chair in Human Mobility and the Politics of Difference at the African Centre for Migration and Society and Professor of Migration and Development at the University of Oxford. Together with Jean Pierre Misago, he co-founded and co-directs the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab. Widely published in the academic and popular press, he is author of The Humanitarian Hangover: Displacement, Aid, and Transformation in Western Tanzania (Wits Press), co-editor of Contemporary Migration to South Africa (World Bank), editor of Exorcising the Demons Within: Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa (UN University Press/Wits Press) and has published in Millennium, Politics & Society, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and elsewhere.

Experience

  • –present
    Research Chair on Mobility & the Politics of Diversity. Migration; Urbanisation; Refugees; Xenophobia, University of the Witwatersrand

Education

  • 2002 
    UC Berkeley, PhD

Grants and Contracts

  • 2018
    Role:
    Research Chair on Mobility & the Politics of Diversity. Migration; Urbanisation; Refugees; Xenophobia
    Funding Source:
    National Research Foundation