NEWS
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Migrant rights to accessing healthcare in South Africa
In this webinar, CoRE co-lead Jo Vearey draws on a recent paper co-authored with Dr Rebecca Walker to highlight the ways in which the South African policy ecosystem is “Closing the gap in the wrong direction”. This open access paper explores migration, health policy, and the exclusion of asylum seekers, refugees and undocumented migrants from…
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International Migration Day & World AIDS Day, 1 December 2025
CoRE co-lead, Professor Jo Vearey gave a talk as part of a webinar organised by the South African national statistics agency – Statistics South Africa. She highlighted the challenges in accessing healthcare that are faced by international migrants in the country and cautioned about the negative health impacts this has for all in South Africa.
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A blog by Betelhem Assefa, an intern at ACMS- Wits University
My time at the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) was an immensely enriching learning experience. The highlight of my internship was developing a policy review, which taught me how to critically evaluate policies that initially seemed comprehensive and to identify the significant gaps I had previously overlooked. I once assumed that policies were…
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Three Master students from UU conduct Internship at Wits.
We are delighted to introduce two postdoctoral fellows who have joined the Cluster of Research Excellence (CoRE) in Migration & Health. Hosted by the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at Wits University in South Africa, Dr Fehmida Qaddus Rabbani & Dr Neusa Torres will be undertaking independent research projects & supporting the CoRE.
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Webinar – Cities in motion: health, violence & crisis in South Africa’s urban worlds
This webinar facilitated an evidence-informed conversation about the intersecting and multi-level dynamics of migration and urbanisation and their impacts on population health and well-being in South Africa. Central to current debates is the need to focus on the structural and interpersonal violence – including that promoted by anti-foreigner vigilante groups.
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Two postdoctoral fellows join the CoRE
We are delighted to introduce two postdoctoral fellows who have joined the Cluster of Research Excellence (CoRE) in Migration & Health. Hosted by the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at Wits University in South Africa, Dr Fehmida Qaddus Rabbani & Dr Neusa Torres will be undertaking independent research projects & supporting the CoRE.
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Webinar – On the move: where does wellbeing fit?
The first webinar in our series on ‘Migration, health and wellbeing in context’, a joint initiative between the CoRE, the Gendered violence & poor mental health among migrants in precarious situations (GEMMS) Global Health Research Group, the Nuture4Youth Global Health Research Group & the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at Wits University.
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When lies Trump truth — debunking the migrant myth in South Africa’s healthcare crisis
CoRE-MH co-lead, Jo Vearey, contributed to this op-ed with colleagues from Wits University &the South African National Statistics Agency – StatS-SA. Blaming migrants for South Africa’s ailing healthcare system is a dangerous & politically convenient fiction. Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, this narrative persists, deflecting attention from the real source of collapse: State failure.
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It’s a wrap! Winter School, July 2025 – session recordings
The inaugural Winter School ran from 1-4 July 2025 in Johannesburg. With over 30 participants, the majority joined in-person, with others from further afield online. The Winter School – ‘Researching Migration & Health in Africa: more than the right to health’ – provided opportunities for interdisciplinary thinking and interrogation of the research field.
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Migration PhD students receive a boost through intensive research training in Accra-Ghana, 10-11 June 2024
A group of PhD students in Ghana has completed an intensive two-day academic training on African migration, equipping them with vital research tools to better understand the continent’s migration dynamics and contribute to policy and scholarly work.