Initially concentrating on multiple mobilities within and from Africa, the MGL works through a series of inter-connected research and pedagogical themes relevant to the movements across ‘the global south’. It positions human mobility as a heuristic providing insights into practical workings and transformations of regulatory and governance systems. Speaking to contemporary policy, advocacy, and academic concerns, it supports the next generation of scholars and scholarship considering the socio-politics of human mobility. By attracting research support, through creative engagements at multiple locations and scales, and by facilitating dialogue across global and professional hierarchies, it amplifies these findings and insights in the support of civil society, scholarly, and public policy formation.

Research project that aims to investigate the viability of movement building for migrant rights in the South African context, characterised by growing xenophobic populism and discrimination, as well as push-back by an active, albeit fragmented civil society ecosystem.

The project seeks to define strategic and proactive advocacy for migrant rights, identify engagement strategies with various partners, and support the migrant sector in crafting new narratives and long-term strategies to shift policy perspectives, for a more effective protection of migrants rights in the country

The CoRE in Migration & Health is co-led by Jo Vearey (African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) & the ARUA Centre of Excellence in Migration & Mobility, WITS University) and Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil (Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, International Child Health and Nutrition and the WHO Collaborating Centre on Migration and Health Data and Evidence, Uppsala University). The CoRE initiative involves multiple partners and is supported by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and The Guild of Research-Intensive European Universities.

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The CoRE in Migration & Health is co-led by Jo Vearey (African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) & the ARUA Centre of Excellence in Migration & Mobility, WITS University) and Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil (Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, International Child Health and Nutrition and the WHO Collaborating Centre on Migration and Health Data and Evidence, Uppsala University). The CoRE initiative involves multiple partners and is supported by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and The Guild of Research-Intensive European Universities.

The Atlas of Uncertainty is a publication, an exhibit, and a digital platform. It integrates written essays, visual art, statistics, sound, and critical cartography. Created dialogically, it offers layered and nuanced understandings of transforming urban spaces and the moral and material economies that bind them. It is at once a tool of knowledge communication and a reflection on what we believe and how we know it.

The Atlas aims to move from the ‘census’ to the ‘senses’ evoking sensorial and embodied experiences of the material, in ways that challenge traditional ways of representing African cities.

Nurturing the resilience of mobile youth to navigate health and wellbeing crises in southern Africa (Nurture4Youth) is an NIHR-funded Global Health Research Group involving collaboration between ACMS, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Africa Health Research Initiative (AHRI) and Zambart. Our goal is to build and strengthen a dynamic research partnership focused on producing policy-relevant insights that support mobile adolescents and young people.

We also aim to strengthen capacities in the applicant South African, Zambian and UK institutions and the young people we work with, to co-develop and lead an ambitious programme of youth-led work which builds resilient mAYP social networks that enhance visibility and solidarity, as well as informs policy and practice on building responsive SRHR services for mAYP. Through this work, we aim to enhance their resilience and improve their access to sexual and reproductive health services, ultimately contributing to better health and wellbeing.