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Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka is a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the SARChI Chair in the Political Economy of Migration in the SADC (PEMS) at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn), Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria. His research expertise spans the intersection of intercontinental citizenship and netizenship of African migrants, migration and social sustainability, borders, civil society and democracy, Africa-EU relations, Africa-Canada relations, alternative regional integration and regionalism, and anti-corruption initiatives and development.
Dr. Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka
Contact
Hosting institute
- German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Current affiliation
- Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, SARChI Chair in the Political Economy of Migration in the SADC, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
Memberships
Key expertise
- Migration
- Diaspora
- Citizenship
- Borders
- Alternative Regional Integration and Regionalism
- Civil Society and Democracy
- Africa-EU Relations
- Anti-Corruption and Development
Regional expertise
- Vereinigten Staaten
- Kanada
- Africa, Europe
Profile according to FFVT taxonomy
Scientific topics
- Borders
- Causes Of Displacement
- Civil Society Engagement
- Economy Of Forced Migration
- Education
- Environment And Climate
- Identity
- Infrastructure Of Flight / Forced Migration
- Integration And Social Participation
- Local And Municipal Refugee Policies
- Migration Routes, Refugees’ Journeys
- National Refugee And Asylum Policies
- Racism
- Refugee Camp
- Religion
- Return And Deportation
- Self-Organization
- Transnational Networks
- Work / Labour Market
Disciplines
- Political Sciences
- Sociology
- Other
Professional Career
Relevant publications
- “On est pas de cobayes”: Congolese migrants and health transnationalism in the COVID-19 moment. In The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life (pp. 127-140).2023.Routledge India..
- Rethinking migration narratives through Africa–EU relations from below: Migration evangelism of public transport users in Europe by France-based African migrants.2023.Africa-EU Relations and the African Continental Free Trade Area, 141-161.
- “Solidarité en mouvement” against homeland authoritarianism: Political transnationalism of Europe-based Central African migrants. In Expanding boundaries (pp. 118-135).2020.Routledge.
- Intercontinental citizenship: Europe-based Congolese migrants and their influence on homeland governance during 2011 DRC electoral crisis.2020.Migration conundrums, regional integration and development: Africa-Europe relations in a changing global order, 117-162.
- Long march to South Africa: The breaking of colonial borders through migrant smuggling of Congolese. In Borders, sociocultural encounters and contestations (pp. 89-111).2020.Routledge.