Thank you for visiting my website. I’m an Anthropologist/Social Science Researcher who retired from academia in 2002 (Emeritus Professor, San Diego State University). I live in Grabouw in the Western Cape in South Africa not far from Cape Town with my wife Cheryl. Rumours that we have become farmers are exaggerated, but we do have a few fruit trees.

My academic experience also includes time spent at various universities (Cape Town, Witwatersrand, Zimbabwe, Honolulu and Namibia). Since retiring, I have been an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cape Town, a Research Associate with the Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) and the Urban Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN).

My research interests include migration and related topics such as food security, brain drain and xenophobia. My research experience includes methodology, sampling, data analysis (spss), survey design and fieldworker training. I have a long term interest in Namibia having done my Ph.D. fieldwork there in 1967-1968. Since 1988, I have worked on development related projects in Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. I have extensive experience doing data analysis with spss and have conducted training workshops on the software.

Below are three of my favourite published works (*) followed by some recent publications.

SAMP publications are downloadable from: http://www.queensu.ca/samp/sampresources/samppublications/
AFSUN publications are downloadable from: http://www.afsun.org/publications/

(*) Katutura: A Place Where We Stay. Life in a post-apartheid township in Namibia: Katutura before and now. Windhoek, Gamsberg MacMillan, 1994, 1996 (reprinted). A revised edition published by Ohio University Press, Monographs in International Studies, Africa Series Number 65, 1996. Still in print with recent sales.
(*) "Katutura and Namibia: The People, the Place, and the Fieldwork”. In, Chronicling Cultures: Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology. Edited by Robert V. Kemper and Anya P. Royce. AltaMira Press, 2002. Also published in Spanish in 2011 in: Cronicas Culturales, Universidad Iberoamericana and Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores an Antropologia Social.
(*)“Migration and Urban Governance in Southern Africa: The Case of Windhoek.” In, Heritage and Culture in Modern Namibia: in-depth views of the country. Edited by Cornelia Limprecht and Megan Biesele. Klaus Hess Publishers, Windhoek and Gottingen, 2008.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

“Regionalizing Xenophobia? Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees in the SADC”. The Southern African Migration Project, Migration Policy Series No. 30. IDASA, Cape Town and Southern African Research Centre, Queen’s University, Canada. Co-authored with Jonathan Crush. 2003.

“Degrees of Uncertainty: Students and the Brain Drain in Southern Africa”. The Southern African Migration Project, Migration Policy Series No. 35. IDASA, Cape Town and Southern African Research Centre, Queen’s University, Canada. Co-authored with Jonathan Crush and Daniel S. Tevera. 2005.

“Migration, Remittances and Development in Southern Africa”. The Southern African Migration Project, Migration Policy Series No. 44. IDASA, Cape Town and Southern African Research Centre, Queen’s University, Canada. Co-authored with Jonathan Crush, Eugene Campbell, Thuso Green, Hamilton Simelane, Daniel S. Tevera and Fion de Vletter. 2006

“Mapping Hostilities: The Geography of Xenophobia in Southern Africa.” South African Geographical Journal 89(1), 64-82. Co-authored with Jonathan Crush and Dan Tevera. 2007.

“The Haemorrhage of Health Professionals From South Africa: Medical Opinions". The Southern African Migration Project, Migration Policy Series No. 47. IDASA, Cape Town and Southern African Research Centre, Queen’s University, Canada. Co-authored with Jonathan Crush and Kate Lefko-Everett. 2007.

“Migration and Xenophobia in Southern Africa”. Adult Education and Development, Volume 70. Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association. Bonn. 2008.

“Remitting for Survival: Rethinking the Development Potential of Remittances in Southern Africa”.Global Development Studies Volume Five, No.304, Largo, Maryland. Co-authored with Jonathan Crush. 2009.

“The Development Role of Remittances in the Urbanization Process in Southern Africa”. Global Development Studies Volume Five, No.304, Largo, Maryland. Co-authored with Bruce Frayne. 2009

“The State of Urban Food Insecurity in Southern Africa”. African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN), Urban Food Security Series No. 2, Co-authored with Bruce Frayne and Jonathan Crush, et al. University of Cape Town and Queen’s University. 2010

“Diasporas on the Web: New Networks, New Methodologies”. Co-authored with J. Crush, C. Eberhardt, M. Caesar, A. Chikanda and A. Hill. In C. Vargas- Silva, ed., Handbook of Research Methods on Migration. Edward Elgar. 2011.

“Brain Flight: The Exodus of Health Professionals from South Africa”. Co-authored with J. Crush. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, Vol. 6, Iss:3. 2011.

"The Brain Drain Potential of Students in the African Health and Non-Health Sectors". Co-authored with J. Crush. International Journal of Population Research, Volume 2012, Article ID 274305. 2012.

“The State of Food Security in Windhoek”. African Food Security Urban Network
(AFSUN), Urban Food Security Series No. 2, Co-authored with Ndeyapo Nickanor and Akiser Pomutil. University of Cape Town and Queen’s University. 2012.

"The Disengagement of the South African Medical Diaspora in Canada". Co-authored with Jonathan Crush and Abel Chikanda. Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol 38.4. 2012.

"The Crisis of Food Security in African Cities." Co-authored with Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne. Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. Vol.7, Issue 2-3, 2012.

"Divided Diasporas: Southern Africans in Canada." Co-authored with Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, Mary Cesar, Sujata Ramahandra, Cassandra Eberhardt and Ashley Hill. The Centra for International Governance Innovation and the Southern African Migration Programme. 2013.

“The State of Food Insecurity in Maputo, Mozambique”. African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN), Urban Food Security Series No. 20. Co-authored with Ines Raimundo and Jonathan Crush. University of Cape Town and Queen’s University. 2014.