Maxine Reitzes

Maxine Reitzes holds an MA cum laude in Social and Political Theory from Sussex University, UK. She was also awarded a Cambridge Research Fellowship on the Global Security Programme in 1996. She began her career as an academic, lecturing at a range of universities, both in South Africa and overseas, including at the Centre for Black African Studies in Bordeaux, France. After the 1994 democratic elections, she joined the policy community, and focused on policy research, evaluation, and formulation.... She has worked for a number of NGOs and managed projects funded by a range of foreign political donors. She has informed the policy debate on migration, the restructuring of local government and inter-governmental relations, and the role of civil society in policy making. She is currently a Research Director on the Democracy and Governance Programme at the Human Sciences Research Council, where she is conducting research on the interface between civil society and government discourses, concerning local government and intergovernmental relations. Her main research interests are the construction of citizenships and identities, human rights, civil society and migration. She has researched and published widely in all these fields.