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Dr Joseph Yaro University of Ghana, Ghana 
Prof Laurence Piper University of the Western Cape, South Africa 
Dr Linda Oucho African Migration and Development Policy Centre, Kenya 
Prof Loren Landau University of Witwatersrand, South Africa 
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Dr Meselu Alamnie Mulugeta Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia 
Prof Raul Delgado Wise Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico 
Dr Razack Karriem University of the Western Cape, South Africa 
Dr Sharon Penderis University of the Western Cape, South Africa 
Prof Simon Bekker University of Stellenbosch, South Africa  
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AHMR is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed on-line journal created to encourage and facilitate 
the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political, legislative and developmental) of Human 
Mobility in Africa. Through the publication of original research, policy discussions and evidence 
research papers, AHMR provides a comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis of 
contemporaneous trends, migration patterns and some of the most important migration-related 
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African Human Mobility Review 
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Volume 2 Number 3 September – December 2016 

 

538    From the Director: A Reflection on South Africa’s Migration Policy 
Sergio Carciotto 

ARTICLES  

 542 Responsibility Sharing: Towards a Unified Refugee Protection 

Framework in Africa   
Ncumisa Willie and Popo Mfubu  
 

 567 Internal Migration, Remittances and Welfare Impacts: A Case 

Study in Dormaa Municipality, Ghana  
Collins Yeboah 

 

 596 Migration and HIV/AIDS in Rural South Africa: A Dual-Phase 

Intergenerational, Gendered Chain Migration  
 Alexandra Plowright, Gillian Hundt and Maria Stuttaford 
 

 617 Nowhere to Run: A Review of the Political Economy of 

Migration, Identity and Xenophobic Violence in Zambia  
 Phineas Bbaala and Njekwa Mate