The migration project at HEARD (Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division) focuses on the intersectionally situated experiences of migrant and refugee women in South Africa and how their legal, economic and social insecurities contribute to their vulnerability to poor sexual and reproductive health outcomes. The team has published extensively on migrant and refugee women’s experiences with sexual and gender-based violence that often occurs on continuum for these women – at their point of origin, in their migration journey and upon arrival in South Africa.

The concept of co‐production of knowledge has become popular in recent years and is an effort to de‐centre academia as “the” site of knowledge production and to acknowledge and involve those outside of academia as equally valid holders and producers of knowledge. This is a particularly valuable approach when the research involves highly marginalised people whose knowledge is often overlooked or ignored since it actively creates greater opportunities for community engagement and capacity building. Based on their extensive time in the field, the team have regrouped in a newly published article to reflect on the possibilities of co‐producing knowledge in a situation of widely asymmetrical power relations between researchers and participants.