Kudakwashe Vanyoro

Can Migration Studies be Decolonized? Can Migration Studies be Decolonized?; What does it really mean to “decolonize” migration studies? This book asks hard questions about theory vs practice, showing how decolonial approaches can both tr...

My book Can Migration Studies be Decolonized? is now up for pre-order with Bristol University Press! 📚

It’s been such a journey. full of questions, conversations, and generous people.

Feeling surreal (and excited!) to see it live. 💛
Pre-order here 👉 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/can-migratio...

Excellent news. Can Migration Studies be Decolonized? is making its way to print in 2026. Incredibly grateful to everyone that helped me get here! 🙏

Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest The long read: The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapon of oppression. Here, Aminatta Forna recalls the man and introduces his essay on decolonisatio...

It would sound odd to hear that French literature can only be written in Japanese, or English literature in IsiZulu, so that when you meet a French writer who writes in French, you look at them in surprise. yet this absurdity is expected of African writers and writers from those formerly colonised.

Get ready for 📡keynotes📡 at our 3rd GCSJ Research Festival June 4-6!
1️⃣Keynote 1 by Dr Walaa Alqaisiya
2️⃣Keynote 2 by Dr Kudakwashe Vanyoro
3️⃣Many more conversations on locating and challenging power & creative approaches

@gunjans.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social

Don’t miss Dr Kudakwashe Vanyoro keynote on "Thinking from the Global South” - a powerful talk on migration, power & North–South relations.

🗓 5 June | ⏰ 11:00–12:00
📡 online & on-site
🔗 tinyurl.com/bduev9sk (free registration)

@KudaVan @gunjans.bsky.social
#research #GlobalSouth #Migration

Wonderful first day of discussions on Reflexivities in Migration Studies and future directions of our Standing Committee at the Centre for Migration Research in Warsaw! Special thanks to Anna Amelina and @kudavan.bsky.social for your stimulating inputs. To be continued tomorrow 🔥

💡Stay tuned! GCSJ is finalising the program for our 3rd Annual Research Festival 4-6 June.
✅Online & hybrid
✅Keynotes: Walaa Alqaisiya & Kudakwashe Vanyoro
✅Sessions on power & global #development & racial #justice, labor rights, #gender, #indigenous environmental knowledge

@gunjans.bsky.social

The Future Studies Seminar at the Center for International Studies, El Colegio de México. www.youtube.com/live/3nP3OBO...

"It is ironic that the executive order makes provision for refugee status in the US for a group in South Africa that remains amongst the most economically privileged, while vulnerable people in the US from other parts of the world are being deported and denied asylum despite real hardship."
- DIRCO

The role of institutional architecture in the reception of refugees in South Africa Post-Apartheid South Africa retains a national refugee reception system comprising of several key pieces of institutional architecture. Yet, since being established in the mid-1990s, the national r...

Our Open Access article, "The role of institutional architecture in the reception of refugees in South Africa", published in The International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 29 Issue 2, is now available:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Chronopolitics: Decolonising African Migration Studies This article proposes the concept of ‘chronopolitics’ as a heuristic for a kind of decolonial imagination in migration studies, one that insists on structural changes as opposed to those relational...

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Time & Society: Sage Journals Through its collection of high quality research papers, this journal works to advance our understandings of the relationship between time, temporality, and soci...

I'm officially on the editorial board of Time and Society journal. Please send us your articles on migration, temporality and anthropology, that make original contributions to our understandings of the relationships between time, temporality, and social life in Africa

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