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Responding to Xenophobic Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Barking Up the Wrong Tree?

Responding to Xenophobic Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Barking Up the Wrong Tree?

by NicholasS | Feb 6, 2020 | Sarchi, Uncategorized

A journal article by Dr JP Misago This paper highlights the general failure to effectively respond to and prevent xenophobic violence in South Africa and offers critical reflections on reasons thereof. Drawing mainly on the evaluation of a number of anti-xenophobic...
Cross-Border Mobility, Violence and Spiritual Healing in Beitbridge District, Zimbabwe

Cross-Border Mobility, Violence and Spiritual Healing in Beitbridge District, Zimbabwe

by NicholasS | Feb 6, 2020 | Sarchi, Uncategorized

A journal article by Dr Francis Musoni This article examines the significance and contestations surrounding some small huts, which are found at the margins of many homesteads in Beitbridge district on the Zimbabwean border with South Africa. Locally referred to...
Detention as an Instrument of Control: Security Rhetoric and the Legitimization of Illegality in South Africa

Detention as an Instrument of Control: Security Rhetoric and the Legitimization of Illegality in South Africa

by NicholasS | Feb 4, 2020 | Sarchi, Uncategorized

A journal article by Dr Roni Amit Around the globe, government policymakers have characterised detention as an effective way to keep track of migrants seen as potential security risks as well as to make migration less appealing. There is little evidence, however, that...
The Governance of Multiple Elsewheres: Evaluating Municipalities’ Response to Mobility

The Governance of Multiple Elsewheres: Evaluating Municipalities’ Response to Mobility

by NicholasS | Feb 4, 2020 | Sarchi, Uncategorized

A journal article by Dr Caitlin Blaser and Prof Loren Landau Migrants personify multilocality. As people move in search of profit, protection or passage elsewhere, they create networks of material and social exchange in ways that recalibrate demands on administrative...
Business robbery, the foreign trader and the small shop: How business robberies affect Somali traders in the Western Cape

Business robbery, the foreign trader and the small shop: How business robberies affect Somali traders in the Western Cape

by NicholasS | Feb 4, 2020 | Sarchi, Uncategorized

A journal article by Dr Vanya Gastrow Recent years have seen a rapid increase in business robberies in the Western Cape. Most of these robberies affect informal traders in low-income township neighbourhoods. Foreign nationals in these areas appear to be especially...
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