Faisal Garba is with the University of Cape Town, and the Africa Institute, Sharjah. He works on migration and mobility. Dr Faisal Garba is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cap Town (UCT). He works on forms of working class organization political economy and inequality migration and mobility. Social theory and historical sociology. He is active in struggles for an alternative sociality.
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