Labour Migration Newsletter #4: Automation and the future of work

Labour migration in Africa is closely connected to industrialisationAs more tasks and economical activities are automated, replacing humans with robots and artificial intelligence, labour migrants will face various vulnerabilities. Moreover, increased competition in the labour markets of the countries they migrated to is likely to affect perceptions towards migrants.

In this issue, we look at:

  • How automation affects labour migrants in and outside Africa
  • 5 countries where automation is a risk for labour migrants
  • Labour Migration Reporting Award Winners
  • Labour migration reporting courses

Read more in the AWiM Labour Migration Newsletter #4. You can read previous editions here and listen to the labour migration podcast

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DR. YEMISI AKINBOBOLA

C.E.O & Co-founder, AWiM

Dr Yemisi Akinbobola is an award-winning journalist, academic, consultant and co-founder of African Women in Media (AWiM). AWiM’s vision is that one-day African women will have equal access to representation in media. Joint winner of the CNN African Journalist Award 2016 (Sports Reporting), Yemisi ran her news website IQ4News between 2010-14.
Yemisi holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from Birmingham City University, where she is a Senior Lecturer. She has published scholarly research on women’s rights, African feminism, and journalism and digital public spheres. She was Editorial Consultant for the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 commemorative book titled “She Stands for Peace: 20 Years, 20 Journeys”, and currently hosts the book’s podcast.
She speaks regularly on issues relating to gender and media. In 2021 she was recognized as one of 100 Most Influential African Women.