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Research has shown that African immigrants in South Africa refrain from speaking their own languages and try to speak local languages to blend in.
The Conversation asked two experts to look at the data.
Traditional economists cannot quantify or measure the effect of white male privilege in facilitating business dealings or obtaining employment in emerging market economies.
Nigerian women migrating to Europe are increasingly aware that work hidden in the form of menial jobs is actually sex work, even though they cannot imagine the brutality that comes with it.
The initiative to establish an African Humanitarian Agency is a welcome one. But political, technical and financial support will matter. This will require the AU to take a pragmatic approach. Can it?
South African university students are as guilty of xenophobia as anyone else. Three approaches through teaching and research could make a huge difference.
The migration of early Africans into the Middle East, then across the Mediterranean into Europe and Asia – and eventually into the Americas and Australia and the Pacific Islands – is the origin of today’s humanity.
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Professor of African Language Studies, Rhodes University
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Professor of Globalisation and Development; Director of the Oxford Martin Programmes on Technological and Economic Change and Future of Development, University of Oxford
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Researcher, Durban University of Technology
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Research Associate, Centre for Indian Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Steinberg Postdoctoral Fellow in International Migration Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Criminology, University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town
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Reader in the Anthropology of Africa and Law, SOAS, University of London
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Postdoctoral research fellow (Forensic Linguistics/ Language and Law), Rhodes University
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Part-time lecturer, University of Johannesburg
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Associate professor, Howard University
