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Mutyenyoka, M.A. Edwin

Portrait von Edwin Mutyenyoka
Position at ABI:
Senior Researcher
E-mail:
edwin.mutyenyoka [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Phone:
+49 (0) 7618887829
Areas of research:
South-South Migration, (State) Welfarism, Social Protection, Social Inequality, Mobility-Migration and Translocality, Post-Coloniality/Decoloniality, Afrocentricity
Regional focus:
East and Southern Africa (emphasis on South Africa and Kenya)
Professional experience:
2023 – 2024
Visiting Research Fellow, National Centre for Competent Research (NCCR on the move), University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
2015 - 2017
Lecturer, Department of Development Planning and Management, University of Limpopo, South Africa
2014
Research Assistant, Department of Development Planning and Management, University of Limpopo, South Africa
Education:
2021 – Ongoing
Doctor of Social Sciences, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabrueck University, Germany, (Doctoral Scholarship – Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst)
2015 – 2016
Master of Development Studies, University of Limpopo, South Africa
2011 - 2014
Bachelor of Development Planning and Management (Honors), University of Limpopo, South Africa

The Political Lives of Migrants: Perspectives from Africa (PolMig), funded by the European Research Council (ERC), 2024-2029

Member and Laureate of The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)

Member of the South African Association of Public Administration (SAAPAM)

Mutyenyoka, E. M., & Tsheola, J. P. (2017). The rural–urban dichotomy effects of social grants on sustainable poverty alleviation in the Polokwane Local Municipality, South Africa. Social Change, 47(3), 406-420.

Mutyenyoka, E. M., Tirivangasi, H. M., & Mugambiwa, S. S. (2017). Dichotomies of chronic and episodic rural-urban poverty: A South African context. Africa Insight, 47(1), 1-12.

Mutyenyoka, E. M. (2016). The rural-urban dichotomy effects of social grants on poverty alleviation in the Polokwane Local Municipality, South Africa (Masters dissertation). http://hdl.handle.net/10386/3969

Mutyenyoka, E. M., & Madzivhandila, T. S. (2014). Employment creation through small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa: Challenges, progress and sustainability. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 5(25), 65-72.