Labour Migration Reporting Program

Course Description:

A strong focus of the course will be to equip journalists with practical tools and skills to tackle labour migration policy reportage.

 Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course learners should be able to:

●     Understand the context of labour migration policy in Africa

●     Use the set of tools shared during the course to unearth labour migration policy narratives

●     Identify and understand the structure of the migrant labour market

Modules Under this course:

1. Introduction to labour migration policy
2. Introduction to labour migration policy in Africa
3. Actors of labour migration in Africa
4. Assessing the status of labour migration policy in Africa.
5. International Labour Standards presenting important labour migration instruments.
6. Key labour migration instruments that have been ratified in the region.
7. National legal frameworks highlighting good practices on labour inspection, anti-trafficking, social protection and minimum wage.
8. What labour migration policy should not look like
9. Access to decent work for refugees.
10. How labour migration policy affects vulnerable groups: women and children.

Labour Migration Reporting Program

Description

This course will provide an extensive overview of labour migration in Africa as a means to discuss the ethical considerations journalists must be aware of when reporting. This will include analyses of regional trends and how they tie to social, cultural and economic conventions. In turn, these elements will be discussed in relation to their impact of gender identity politics. The course will highlight how journalists can report on these intersecting factors in a manner that does not compromise the overall safety of their sources and affected communities. We will make reference to the principles of Constructive Journalism as a way to intercept and correct ethical blunders.

Learning outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, learners will:

- be conscientised about the ethics of reporting on labour migration in the continent.

- be able to monitor their own practise through a considered ethical lens and with an awareness of gender identity politics.

- Produce well researched, constructive and considered journalistic outputs

Modules under this course

1. Case Study: The future of migration in the Global South: racializing diseases has to stop.
2. The tenets and ethics of Journalism
3. An overview of labour migration coverage and reporting on the Continent.
4. Constructive Journalism and Reporting on labour migration
5. Trauma and the ethics of sensitive interviewing and reporting
6. Intercultural relations in ethical labour migration reporting
7.  Women and labour migration 
8. Patriarchy and labour migration - how it affects all of us and why journalists need to be cognisant of it
9. Ethical visual media practice
10. 1n the Event of an ethical blunder