Tanatswa Silvanus Chineka
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- Migration health, public health policy and systems, social security, child welfare
Biography
A social scientist and doctoral researcher with the Global Health Research Group on Disrupting the Cycle of Gendered Violence & Poor Mental Health Among Migrants in Precarious Situations (GEMMS). The research group is part of the newly established Centre for Global Health and Intersectional Equity Research. Tanatswa's tripartite doctoral study looks at the masculine identities, child agency and health access among migrant children. This PhD is jointly located in the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Essex, and the African Center for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand. Tanatswa has avid interests in collaborative interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research with marginalised and special populations. He explores the methodological application of intersectionality to understand how power, priviledge and positionality shapes and reframes the social identities and experiences of these populations at the margins. Tanatswa has considerable experience in social work training and community development practice. He has published on various topics of child protection, women empowerment, informal social protection and drug abuse.
Qualifications
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Master of Social Work University of Zimbabwe (2019)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Intersection of Masculine Identities and Child Agency in Shaping Unaccompanied Migrant Boys Access to Health Services in Chipinge and Beitbridge, Zimbabwe
A mixed methods study examining how access to health services by unaccompanied migrant boys is shaped by evolving masculine identities and agency. The study is situated at the migration-health intersection i.e. how unaccompanied migrant boys access health services as and when they move. Spatially, the study is located in Chipinge and Beitbridge in Zimbabwe, borderlying communities with Mozambique and South Africa respectively.
Supervisor: Gina Yanniteli Reinhadt , Anuj Kapilashrami
