Henrietta NYAMNJOH
| Name | Henrietta NYAMNJOH |
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| Affiliation | Visiting Professor at African Studies Center ,Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Researcher University of CapeTown |
henrietta.nyamnjoh uct.ac.za |
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| HP | https://uct.academia.edu/HenriettaNyamnjoh |
| Research Field | Anthropology Childhood Mobilities: Migrations and Mobilities of Unaccompanied Minors in Africa |
| Key Words | Childhood Mobilities: Migrations and Mobilities of Unaccompanied Minors in Africa |
| Research Interest | This is a study explores the mobilities and migrations of unaccompanied minors in Africa. In particular, I examine the movements of child migrants from Ethiopia to South Africa, as well as Burkina Faso Côte d'Ivoire. The study draws on research that was caried out between 2020 and 2024 among children migrants from Ethiopia to South tracing the changes in opportunities and constraints faced by child migrants from country of origin (Ethiopia), transit country (Kenya) and destination country (South Africa).The study highlights the factors that impede or engender the progress of the journey of children as they transit through Kenya and the mediating effect of inequality, marginality and exclusion or integration in the host countriy. While I focus on the journey and its travails, I also seek to shed light on the notion of accelerated transition from minors into adulthood of these migrant children, highlighting how these children navigate and negotiate the everyday life. In so doing, the aim is to complexify and nuance the single narrative approach in childhood studies by drawing on the concepts of children as luggage and as agents to fill the single narrative lacuna and to understand the workings of accelerated transition to adulthood, the challenges and mitigating circumstances thereof. A second thread examines the lives of second generaion migrant children and how they interface with the polcies of belonging and exclusion owing to the structural challenges of obtaining documentation. I argue that mobilities and migration of children is hinged on cultural fctors on the need of being and becoming a man to self-activating their agency in the process to change the standard of living for the left behind families. I also argue that the perception of migrants as threat informs government's policies of exclusion and major shifts towards a regressive immigration policy. |
| Academic Career | 2010 – 2013: PhD: African Studies Centre, Leiden/University of Leiden, The Netherland – Research Topic: Bridging Mobilities: ICTs Appropriation by Cameroonians in South Africa and The Netherlands 2007 – 2009: Mphil: Development/African Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands – Research Topic: “We Get Nothing from Fishing” Fishing for Boat Opportunities amongst Senegalese Fisher Migrants |
| Degree | 2013年：博士号（PhD）、ライデン大学／アフリカ研究センター 2009年：修士号（MPhil 開発学／アフリカ研究）、ライデン大学／アフリカ研究センター |
| Professional Career | 2020 - 2024 – Present: Researcher Migration, Inequality and Development Hub, Department of Sociology (www.mideq.org). Uiversity of Cape Town 2018 - 2019: Lecturer, Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town 2017: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town 2014 - 2016: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town |
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