Loren Landau

South African Research Chair in Human Mobility and Politics of Difference, African Centre for Migration and Society

Loren B Landau is the South African Research Chair in Human Mobility and the Politics of Difference based at the University of the Witwatersrand’s African Centre for Migration & Society. His interdisciplinary scholarship explores mobility, multi-scale governance, and the transformation of socio-political community across the global south.

Publications include, The Humanitarian Hangover: Displacement, Aid, and Transformation in Western Tanzania (Wits Press);
Forging African Communities: Mobility, Integration, and Belonging (Palgrave);
I Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis (Wits Press);
Contemporary Migration to South Africa (World Bank);
Exorcising the Demons Within: Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa (UN University Press/Wits Press).

He holds an MSc in Development Studies (LSE) and a PhD in Political Science (Berkeley). Education

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