We hear Silindile Mlilo interview Loren Landau about how patterns of migration to cities in Africa is distinct from urbanization in other parts of the world . Loren also speaks about how he sees the current state of migration studies and the importance of keeping space for research that shifts perspectives away from donor priorities.
Loren Landau is Professor of Migration and Development at the University of Oxford, and at the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand.
His interdisciplinary research includes the topics of representation, multi-scale governance, and the transformation of socio-political communities across the Global South. He is currently overseeing a multi-year initiative exploring mobility, temporality, and urban politics in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa.
Below is a selection of Loren's work.
1. N. Iskander and L.B. Landau. 2022. The Centre Cannot Hold: Arrival, Margins, and the Politics of Ambivalence,’ Migration Studies 10(2): 97-111
2. L.B. Landau. 2021. ‘Asynchronous Mobilities: Hostility, Hospitality, and Possibilities of Justice,’ Mobilities. 16(5): 656-669. DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1967092
3. J.P. Misago and L.B. Landau. 2022. ‘Running Them Out of Time: Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa.’ Geopolitics. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2078707
4. J.P. Misago and L.B. Landau. 2022. ‘Running Them Out of Time: Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa.’ Geopolitics. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2078707
Loren would like to acknowledge the following persons for contributing to his work: Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Mary Setrana, Mary Muyoga, Carina Kanbi, Kabiri Bule, and Brittany Birberick