Migration aspirations

• February 22, 2025

  ‘This settlement is just a launch pad to move to better city spaces’: radical sense of place and migration aspirations among youth migrants in the diaspora

  

  CASAS’ member, Johannes Bhanye, has published an article with Abraham Matamanda & Ruvimbo Shayamunda in Comparative Migration Studies journal. Abstract: This ethnographic study investigates the perceptions of place and migration aspirations among young migrants within the Malawian diaspora in Lydiate, an informal settlement in Zimbabwe. Unlike traditional conceptions of diaspora that emphasize long-term settlement and…