Category: Migration & Mobility

Conferences, Lectures, Roundtables / Migration & Mobility / Reports / Topics

30/07/2026

Report: The relationship between migration research and policy practice in Africa: policy dialogue (Author: Flora Kiefert)

Are migration researchers and practitioners working in their separate ”silos”? This question was raised by a representative of the German development cooperation (GIZ) at a policy dialogue on “The relationship between migration research and...

African Cities / Blogposts Fellows / Fellows & PIs Reflections / Migration & Mobility / Slide

28/08/2024

by Benedikt Pontzen

Nana Akua Oparebea and the Making of Akonnedi: A Portrait

PDF version of this article Living and theorizing endogenous religions Religions are made by the people who live them. The gods would wither away and fall into oblivion without humans worshipping them while they,...

African Cities / Conflict & Peace / IFGs / Migration & Mobility / Overview MIASA

24/01/2024

by teammiasa

IFG 7: Religious Diversity in Urban Africa

MIASA’s seventh Interdisciplinary Fellow Group (IFG 7) examined African cities, which are not only fast-growing, but also sites of different religious practices. The group explored religious tensions within cities as well as how various...

Artist in Residence / Fellows & PIs Reflections / Interviews / Knowledge Production / Migration & Mobility / Slide

18/01/2024

by teammiasa

Interview with MIASA Artist in Residence Seyram Agbleze

Hello Seyram Agbleze. In 2023, you spent three months as an Artist in residence at MIASA. What was your project about? Seyram Agbleze: My project has a woven art and a film component. The...

African Cities / Conflict & Peace / Fellows & PIs Reflections / Migration & Mobility / Slide / Working Papers

14/08/2023

by teammiasa

Religious Diversity and Modes of Coexistence in Urban Africa, MIASA Working Paper 2023(1)

This Working Paper introduces research results of MIASA’s IFG 7 project titled “Religious Diversity in Urban West Africa: Exploring Modes of Coexistence for Sustainable Governance”. The project started with the broader objective of examining...

African Cities / Blogposts Fellows / Fellows & PIs Reflections / Migration & Mobility / Slide

03/06/2022

by Michael Stasik

The Migrant in a House of Mirrors: Some Reflections on the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies

Recent years have brought a surge in calls for reflexivity in migration studies. These calls are, to a significant extent, a reaction to the increasing prominence of migration and, closely related, of migration research...