China and the Chinese people in Africa: “friends indeed” or “wolves in sheep skin”?


10:30-12:00 h. - Wednesday, 18th February – Room: 13.007 (Ramón Turró)
Speaker: Dr Khangelani Moyo, University of the Free State


 
Dr. Khangelani Moyo, Senior Lecturer, University of the Free State (South Africa)
 
 

Dr Khangelani Moyo is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Sociology, University of the Free State – Qwaqwa Campus, South Africa. He is involved in the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate modules, and the supervision of Honours, Masters and PhD students’ research. He has academic training in the fields of Sociology, Social Anthropology, Migration studies and Urban studies. His research interests include migration management, refugee governance, migrant transnationalism, spatial identity in the city and social vulnerabilities in the urban peripheries. Before joining the University of the Free State, he was a Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung: Vernetzung und Transfer (FFVT) fellow at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen Nürnberg (CHREN), Germany in 2022 and DFG-TWAS Cooperation visiting fellow at the Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT), University of Freiburg, Germany in 2021. As part of his fellowship at CHREN and ACT, his research focused on exploring refugee integration and the existing arrival infrastructure in Germany.