Nicholas Maple
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View article: The Free Movement of Persons in Southern Africa: Aligning State Agendas with the Rights of all Migrants
The Free Movement of Persons in Southern Africa: Aligning State Agendas with the Rights of all Migrants Open
The push for free movement of persons and inclusion policies in Southern Africa continues due to the perceived benefits to all migrants, including refugees and other forced migrants. Advocacy is commonly driven by normative frameworks deri…
View article: Refugee Reception in Southern Africa
Refugee Reception in Southern Africa Open
A new understanding of state-based refugee reception that reflects the complex dynamics of contemporary refugee arrival.It is no longer realistic (if it ever was) to understand persons who flee across a border as a homogeneous group whose …
View article: Compatible Compacts? The “Social Life” of Vulnerability, Migration Governance, and Protection at the Zimbabwe–South Africa Border
Compatible Compacts? The “Social Life” of Vulnerability, Migration Governance, and Protection at the Zimbabwe–South Africa Border Open
The central argument of this paper is that interventions of humanitarian organizations at the Zimbabwe–South Africa border reveal the importance placed on making very clear distinctions between those needing protection and those who do not…
View article: Reviewing the reviews: the Global Compacts' added value in access to asylum procedures and immigration detention
Reviewing the reviews: the Global Compacts' added value in access to asylum procedures and immigration detention Open
The Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees are based on binding international law instruments whose provisions they complement with “best practice” standards related to the treatment of refugees and other migrants.…
View article: Publication III
Publication III Open
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View article: From global to community: The availability of protection mechanisms for refugees in South Africa
From global to community: The availability of protection mechanisms for refugees in South Africa Open
Protection mechanisms aimed at assisting refugees emerge at different scales, from the global to the local. In host countries such as South Africa, formal mechanisms are meant to support refugees in finding various forms of protection, inc…
View article: Compatible Compacts? The 'social life' of vulnerability, migration governance and protection at the Zimbabwe - South Africa border
Compatible Compacts? The 'social life' of vulnerability, migration governance and protection at the Zimbabwe - South Africa border Open
Do the Global Compacts’ engagement with questions of vulnerability match with the realities of African migrants living on the African continent? In this article, we engage this discussion using South Africa as a case study to examine the r…
View article: The Role of Institutional Architecture in the Reception of Refugees in South Africa
The Role of Institutional Architecture in the Reception of Refugees in South Africa Open
South Africa has a progressive legal refugee framework and retains a national refugee reception system comprising of several key pieces of institutional architecture, which include a nationally run refugee status determination (RSD) proced…
View article: Local Integration: A Durable Solution in need of Restoration?
Local Integration: A Durable Solution in need of Restoration? Open
Local integration has long been seen as the “forgotten” durable solution to refugee displacement1 evidenced by the reluctance of governments across the world to accord refugees a new citizenship. This article goes further. It argues that l…
View article: Immobility and the containment of solutions: Reflections on the Global Compacts, Mixed Migration and the Transformation of Protection
Immobility and the containment of solutions: Reflections on the Global Compacts, Mixed Migration and the Transformation of Protection Open
Since negotiations began in 2015 on the two Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees, many within academia have felt uncomfortable engaging with the processes. This reflects a general weariness around new international co-operation agreem…