MMICA is an initiative across multiple faculties based in the Office of the DVC-Academic, Prof Vivienne Lawack. By migration and mobilities we refer to the contemporary and historical movement of people on various scales around the globe, as well as to the circulation of ideas, objects, and capital that often accompanies this mobility.
Overall MMICA aims to:

  • Conduct and collaborate on new research in migration and mobilities.

  • Promote and support a new generation of academics and researchers in the area of migration and mobilities through capacity building, teaching and learning.

  • Create societal impact and social transformation through policy intervention, advocacy and community engagement.

Our work addresses multiple facets of this theme, including:

  • the legal and human rights of refugees and migrants 
  • the role of mobilities and circulations in everyday life
  • migration and food security 
  • mobilities and translocal relationships
  • migrant solidarity and belonging
  • the economic and social relationship between migration and development
  • digital mobilities and social life
  • mobilities in public transportation
  • mobility humanities
  • the politics of xenophobia 
  • urbanisation and agrarian futures
  • technology and migration governances
  • gender and migration 
  • knowledge production and decolonisation 
  • transnationalism and identity

We aim to strengthen partnerships locally, regionally and globally, to promote a new generation of academics and researchers through teaching and capacity building, and to promote social transformation through policy intervention, advocacy and community engagement. 

The Collective

MEET THE COLLECTIVE