South Africa
Current partner
The African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS)
The African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), based at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, is one of the leading African institutions for research, teaching and outreach on migration. The Centre works with a range of partners by providing up to date research-based knowledge on migration and its effects on society, within South Africa and beyond its borders.
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Role of the Migrating out of Poverty RPC in Southern Africa
RPC partners have identified four broad topics of research for the region:
- The lack of information on the current state of migration policy development and how it limits an understanding of the state of migration development within the region.
- The web of interest groups involved in processes and the power relations that shape migration policies.
- The role played by sub-national bureaucracies in enabling local government to implement pro-poor migration policies.
- The countries and polities within Southern Africa characterized by low levels of social protection and where social protection systems render access to social rights a sensitive issue.