Faisal Garba

Junior Fellow IFG 1

February - May 2019

Dr. Faisal Garba is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town. He teaches courses on social theory, society and change, globalization and inequality, and challenges to Eurocentrism at the University of Cape Town and the University of Freiburg, Germany. His research and reaching interests radiate around African migration, working class history and organization, African historical sociology, and social theory. He was educated in the Universities of Ghana, Legon, Cape Town and Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg.

While migration research, in the past decades, has increasingly highlighted the transnational dimension of migration as a bottom-up process, policy responses have so far mostly been framed as an issue ... Read more

Institute:
University of Cape Town

Year:
2018/2019

Interdisciplinary Fellow Group:
IFG 1