Mr Yordanos S. Estifanos is as a researcher for the Ethiopia-South Africa research corridor. His main focus is examining the interactions between migration, poverty and income inequalities among Ethiopian migrants living in South Africa. Yordanos’s work has for some time focused on the experiences of Ethiopian irregular migrants in South Africa, and he has written on the themes of integration, labour, entrepreneurship, gender and financial flows.
Yordanos holds a European Masters in Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR) at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and an MSc in Population Studies (Demography) from Addis Ababa University.