Border politics
Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall.
Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall.
The pathologization of ‘migrants’ in Tunisia and France shows how race and poverty shape our understanding of belonging.
As xenophobic attacks and anti-black rhetoric ramp up in North Africa, it is useful to highlight (or remember) the fluid, intertwined histories of the Saharan region.
After 29 years of neoliberal failure in South Africa, foreigners are a convenient scapegoat for a national elite that failed to redistribute wealth. This is a pattern common to post-colonial Africa.
By using healthcare to attack immigrants, xenophobic political movements in South Africa echo long-standing right-wing obsessions.
From Operation Fiela to Operation Dudula, xenophobia in South Africa is bent on protecting the interests of politicians.
Xenophobia and questions of belonging haunt Indian South Africans. What does that mean for solidarity with Black South Africans?
Africans' lack of knowledge about our own shared refugee experiences continues to fuel hate and discrimination on the continent.
The stories of African immigrants to the United States tell vivid tales of unimaginable anti-Blackness through foreign terrains.
Growing xenophobic nationalism in South Africa is a danger to African people across the continent.
Recent racist incidents in China are just a manifestation of deeply rooted attitudes vis-à-vis "blackness" in China that predate and will outlive COVID-19.
South Africa mustn’t forget the public—and that includes migrants and refugees—in its public health response to COVID-19.
Coronavirus and the problematic perception of migrants as health threats.
Recent restrictions on refugees—and the limited protests against them—reflect the degree to which many South Africans see “xenophobia” as legitimate hate.
In South Africa, the political class use foreign nationals as scapegoats to obfuscate their role in reproducing inequality. But immigrants are part of the excluded.
The statistics and scenes of violence against black immigrants in South Africa are horrible. A young Cameroonian student in South Africa writes about what it is like to live under such insecurity.
Can policing deliver justice in South Africa? The short answer to that question has been, decidedly, no.
The German metal band Rammstein's video for 'Auslander' wants it both ways: a critique of colonialism and sex tourism, but right-wing neo-nazis can also enjoy the fascist iconography.
We need to understand how climate change impacts the current and future flow of refugees and displaced persons, and ask why the protection needs of climate refugees are not being met.
Following a series of racist attacks on African students in India, an African student in India wrote this.