• Abdou Rahim Lema

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.

• Jo Vearey

South Africa mustn’t forget the public—and that includes migrants and refugees—in its public health response to COVID-19.

• Jessica Musler

Coronavirus and the problematic perception of migrants as health threats.

• Loren B Landau
• Roni Amit

Recent restrictions on refugees—and the limited protests against them—reflect the degree to which many South Africans see “xenophobia” as legitimate hate.

• William Shoki

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.

• Anonymous

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.

• Paul T. Clarke

Can policing deliver justice in South Africa? The short answer to that question has been, decidedly, no.

• Thomas Blaser

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.

• Sharon Ekambaram

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.

• Lily Silumesii

Following a series of racist attacks on African students in India, an African student in India wrote this.

• Savo Heleta

All political parties in South Africa try to mobilize voters based on their and voters' xenophobia and they're outdoing each other with an election scheduled for 2019.

• Talya Swissa

Xenophobia after the #ParisAttacks isn’t limited to boneheads like Rupert Murdoch.

• Setumo-Thebe Mohlomi

The writer's discomfort with being South African in Zimbabwe; something he eventually has to come to terms with.

• Justin Pearce

On Mozambican TV, South Africa is divided between the people of good will with their pots of rice, and the people of Goodwill with their knobkieries and pangas.

• Chielozona Eze

The truth of our global age is that autochthony, nativism, or heritage no longer define us exclusively. So, solidarity based on phenotype or heritage is dangerous.

• Boubacar Boris Diop

The South African question is far too important to accommodate an explanation that is simplistic and childish.

• Imara Ajani Rolston

To seriously respond to xenophobic violence, start with the deconstruction of border politics and acknowledging the colonial inheritance the border represents between countries.

• Oumar Ba

Writer Fatou Diome: It's the representation that Europe does to the Other that feeds xenophobia.

• Dan Magaziner
• Sean Henry Jacobs

The ethno-nationalism that marked apartheid’s dying days has now morphed into a malignant “nativism” that threatens post-apartheid democracy.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Like many other African states, South Africans discharge their anger at political failings on easy scapegoats: those they deem foreigners.