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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 Deputy Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Globalisation and Development; Director of the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Researcher, Nelson Mandela University
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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
