Jonathan Crush is Director of the Southern African Research Centre at Queen’s University and an Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town. He is the coordinator of two Canadian-African research and policy networks focusing on African urban food security (www.afsun.org) and international migration and development (www.queensu.ca/samp). He is currently conducting a major study on the Southern Africa diaspora in Canada. The study is funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).