Professor Daniel Tevera

Department of Geography, Environmental Studies and Tourism

Extraordinary Professor

Daniel Tevera is an Extraordinary Professor and former Chair of the Department of Geography, Environmental Studies and Tourism at the University of the Western Cape. Prof Tevera holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Cincinnati (USA), an MA in Geography from Queen’s University (Canada) and a BA in Geography and Education from the University of Sierra Leone.

Prof Tevera’s research has focused on African migration, African urbanism and urban livelihoods, urban food security, transnational entrepreneurship and informal cross border trade between Zimbabwe and South Africa, Zimbabwean migration and remittance flows, xenophobic violence in South Africa, and short labour migration schemes in southern Africa.

During the past 20 years Prof Tevera has actively participated in the Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP), which is an international network of organizations founded in 1996 to promote awareness of migration-development linkages in the SADC. He is a member of The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) , an international network of partner organizations which focuses on the relationships between rapid urbanization, urban food systems and migration in the Global South and the South-South Migration and Migrant Food Insecurity: Interactions, Impacts and Remedies (MiFOOD) research project funded by the SSHRC, which aims to design and implement a global research and knowledge mobilization on the neglected interactions between migration and food security within the Global South.

In 2017 Prof Tevera was invited by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to join the informal group that advises its Social Development Policy Division to identify and remedy the existing gaps in policy responses to African migration. He was also part of the management team of the African Food Security Urban Network, a research, policy and capacity-building network of Canadian and African universities, NGOs and municipal governance networks.

Relevant Publications

Tevera D. (2020). Imagining borders, borderlands, migration and integration in Africa: The search for connections and disjunctures. In C. Nshimbi, I. Moyo (Eds.), Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and Development, pp. 15-23. Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development. Springer, Cham.
Crush, J., Tawodzera, G., Chikanda, A. & Tevera, D. (2017). The owners of xenophobia: Zimbabwean enterprise and xenophobic violence in South Africa. African Human Mobility Review 3, 878-909.
Crush, J., Dodson, B., Williams, V. and Tevera, D. (2017). Harnessing Migration for Inclusive Growth and Development in Southern Africa, Special Report. Waterloo: Southern African Migration Programme.
Crush, J., Tawodzera, G. Ramachadran S., Tevera, D., & Chikanda, A. (2017). The Double Crisis: Mass Migration from Zimbabwe and Xenophobia in South Africa. International Centre for Migration Policy Development.
Crush, J., Tawodzera, G., Chikanda, A., & Tevera, D. (2017). Living with Xenophobia: Zimbabwean Informal Enterprises in South Africa. Waterloo, ON: Southern African Migration Programme. SAMP Migration Policy Series No. 77.
Tevera, D. (2014). Remaking life in transnational urban space: Zimbabwean migrant teachers in Manzini, Swaziland. Croatian Scientific Journal of Migration and Ethnic Themes, 30(2), 155-170.
Tevera, D. (2013). African migrants, xenophobia and urban violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Alternation, 7, 9 – 26.
Tevera, D. (2011). Migration and development in Swaziland. UNISWA Research Journal, 26, 15-27.
Crush, J. & Tevera D. (eds) (2010). Zimbabwe’s Exodus: Crisis, Migration and Survival. Cape Town: Southern African Migration Programme.
Crush, J. & Tevera, D. (2010). Exiting Zimbabwe’. In: J. Crush and D. Tevera (Eds), Zimbabwe’s Exodus: Crisis, Migration and Survival, pp.1-49. Cape Town: Southern African Migration Programme.
Crush, J. & Tevera, D. (2010). Discontent and departure: Attitudes of skilled Zimbabweans towards emigration, In: J. Crush & D. Tevera (Eds.), pp112-130. Zimbabwe’s Exodus: Crisis, Migration and Survival. Cape Town: Southern African Migration Programme.
Tevera, D., Crush, J., & Chikanda, A. (2010). Migrant remittances and household survival in Zimbabwe. In: J. Crush and D. Tevera (Eds.), Zimbabwe’s Exodus: Crisis, Migration and Survival, pp. 307-321. Cape Town: Southern African Migration Programme.
Tevera, D. (2009). Management and governance issues in the urban development process in Sub- Saharan Africa. In D. Seck, & D. Busari (Eds), Growth and Development in Africa, Africa, pp. 365-388. Trenton: World Press.
Tevera, D. & Chikanda, A. (2009). Development impact of international remittances: Some evidence from origin households in Zimbabwe. Global Development Studies, 5(3/4):274-302.
Crush, J., Pendleton, W. & Tevera, D. (2006). Degrees of uncertainty: Students and the brain drain in Southern Africa. In: R. Koshen, (ed.), The Internationalisation of Higher Education in South Africa, pp.123-144. Durban: IEASA.