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Overview

Loren B. Landau is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant concentration in sociology and political science, urban studies, demography, clinical psychology, and anthropology.

The scientist's work spans several interrelated topics including:

  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Diaspora, Migration, Transnational Identity
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

Their recent publication record includes a range of papers across various journals, emphasizing migration, spatial justice, and urban transformation. Key recent papers are:

  • "Migration and the African Timespace Trap: More Europe for the World, Less World for Europe," 2020, published in Geopolitics
  • "Coercion or the social contract? COVID 19 and spatial (in)justice in African cities," 2020, published in City & Society
  • "'Running Them Out of Time:' Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa," 2022, published in Geopolitics
  • "An enclave entrepôt: The informal migration industry and Johannesburg's socio-spatial transformation," 2021, published in Urban Studies
  • "Finding Ways through Eurospace: West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside," 2021, published in The AAG Review of Books

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Geopolitics
  • City & Society
  • Urban Studies
  • The AAG Review of Books
  • Migration Studies

Collaborations have been an important element of their academic output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
  • Iriann Freemantle
  • Jean Pierre Misago
  • Tanya Zack
  • Natasha Iskander

Best Publications

  • The Dual Imperative in Refugee Research: Some Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Social Science Research on Forced Migration

    Karen Jacobsen;Loren B. Landau

  • Exorcising the demons within : xenophobia, violence and statecraft in contemporary South Africa

    Loren B. Landau

  • Tactical Cosmopolitanism and Idioms of Belonging: Insertion and Self-Exclusion in Johannesburg

    Loren B. Landau;Iriann Freemantle

  • Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures

    David K. Leonard;Scott Straus

  • Protection and Dignity in Johannesburg: Shortcomings of South Africa's Urban Refugee Policy

    Loren B. Landau

  • XENOPHOBIA IN SOUTH AFRICA AND PROBLEMS RELATED TO IT

    Loren B. Landau;Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh;Gayatri Singh

  • Transplants and Transients: Idioms of Belonging and Dislocation in Inner-City Johannesburg

    Loren B. Landau

  • Loving the alien? Citizenship, law, and the future in South Africa’s demonic society

    Loren B. Landau

  • Towards Tolerance, Law, and Dignity: Addressing Violence against Foreign Nationals in South Africa

    J-P Misago;LB Landau;T Monson

  • Human Development Impacts of Migration: South Africa Case Study

    Loren B. Landau;Aurelia Wa Kabwe Segatti

  • Introduction. Displacing Zimbabwe: Crisis and Construction in Southern Africa

    Amanda Hammar;JoAnn McGregor;Loren Landau

  • Refugees in the New Johannesburg

    Loren B. Landau;Karen Jacobsen

  • Discrimination and development? Immigration, urbanisation and sustainable livelihoods in Johannesburg

    Loren B Landau

  • Laws, Policies, or Social Position? Capabilities and the Determinants of Effective Protection in Four African Cities

    Loren B. Landau;Marguerite Duponchel

  • Contemporary migration to South Africa : a regional development issue

    Loren B. Landau;Aurelia Segatti

  • Living Within and Beyond Johannesburg: Exclusion, Religion, and Emerging Forms of Being

    Loren B. Landau

  • Bridges to nowhere: hosts, migrants, and the chimera of social capital in three African cities.

    Sangeetha Madhavan;Loren B. Landau

  • Urbanisation, nativism, and the rule of law in South Africa's ‘forbidden’ cities

    Loren B Landau

  • Who to Blame and What’s to Gain? Reflections on Space, State, and Violence in Kenya and South Africa

    Loren B. Landau;Jean Pierre Misago

  • A Chronotope of Containment Development: Europe's Migrant Crisis and Africa's Reterritorialisation

    Loren B. Landau

  • Conviviality, Rights, and Conflict in Africa’s Urban Estuaries

    Loren B. Landau

  • RACE TROUBLE: RACE, IDENTITY AND INEQUALITY IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

    Loren B. Landau

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