28 May 2024
The Education Unit in the Faculty of Education hosts a kick-off event for the Decolonization of Education and Research on Migration (DERM) project.
28 May 2024
In October 2023, the Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity and Hospitality in Global Perspective partnership project hosted a roundtable at UWC’s International Symposium on Migration and Mobilities in Cape Town.
28 May 2024
MMICA and Soli*City hosted a session with Prof Harald Bauder on the “Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity and Hospitality in Global Perspective” (Soli*City) project.
29 April 2024
African Human Mobility Review, Volume 9, Number 3, September- December 2023 is available online.
29 April 2024
In October 2023, UWC and MMICA hosted the International Symposium on Migration and Mobilities in partnership with the “Migration and Food Security in The Global South: Interactions, Impacts, and Remedies (MiFOOD Network)”.
29 April 2024
In March 2024, at the recent inaugural African Transport Research Conference, Bulelani Maskiti and other team members from UWC, Durham University, and Transaid UK, presented research findings from the 2023 VREF-funded project, “Young men’s daily mobility needs and practices in two low-income neighbourhoods of Cape Town: Reflections on first mile experiences, using an innovative community peer research methodology.”
29 April 2024
Prof Bradley Rink and project colleagues from the University of Cape Town, the Technical University Dortmund (Germany) and the Federal University ABC (Brazil) who are part of the Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) for Social Sciences and Humanities funded project “Impact of COVID19 on livelihoods, mobility and accessibility of marginalised groups” (ICOLMA) took part in the third project workshop in São Paulo, Brazil.
29 April 2024
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the University of Western Cape (UWC) and Toronto Metropolitan University to promote research support and exchanges in migration and mobilities.
29 April 2024
Building from the 2023 VREF-funded project, Prof Bradley Rink along with an international team of scholars and activists from UWC, University of Durham (UK) and Transaid (UK) were awarded funding for 2024 from the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) for a one-year project entitled “Investigating Young men’s experiences of walking in secondary cities: A comparative study of walking in South Africa and the United Kingdom.”
10 August 2023
African Human Mobility Review Volume 9, Number 1, January- April 2023 is now available online.
3 August 2023
In May 2023, in a historic moment for UWC, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the AU Commission (AUC) and the University of the Western Cape was signed by Prof Vivienne Lawack, DVC- Academic at UWC and Her Excellency, Ambassador Minata Samaté Cessouma, Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development of the African Union, on behalf of the AUC.
13 July 2023
In November 2021, the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) signed a Cooperation Agreement.
11 July 2023
From the 24th to the 28th of April 2023, Ms Nomkhosi Mbatha, a PhD student from the Institute for Social Development (ISD) at UWC had the opportunity to attend the IMISCOE PhD School on “Critical Reflections on Migration Studies, Racism and Discrimination” at Vrije University, Brussels (VUB).
20 September 2022
In March, UWC hosted a visit by group of postgraduate students and team members from the International Planning Studies Research Group at TU Dortmund, Germany. The visit formed part of a workshop for the “ICOLMA” project- The Impact of COVID -19 on Livelihoods, Mobility and Accessibility of Marginalized Groups.
14 March 2022
Members of the four regional hubs of the Urban Sanctuary and Migrant Solidarity project gathered in Berlin for a partnership summit on September 5th, 2022.