Franzisca Zanker

Franzisca Zanker is a senior researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute in Freiburg, Germany, where she heads the research cluster on “Patterns of (Forced) Migration.” She is a political scientist and her research interests include migration and refugee governance, peacebuilding and civil society. For this peace she is drawing on a research project on the political stakes of refugee governance in Africa, funded by German Foundation for Peace Research. In South Africa she conducted the research together with Khangelani Moyo.

Symposium
70 Years of UNHCR and Refugee Convention

“Nowhere to be found”: Three Decades of UNHCR in South Africa

23.03.2021

Franzisca Zanker

Though the UNHCR in South Africa go to great efforts to be neutral and provide the best possible assistance to those seeking refuge, by design they have to work together...