Anti-Immigrant Violence in South Africa
Given the recent violence against immigrants in Johannesburg, Capetown, and elsewhere in South Africa (see accounts here, here, and here), some may be interested in research on migration in Africa and South Africa in particular.
One resource is the Forced Migration Studies Program at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. (It’s director, Loren Landau, is a friend from graduate school.) See, for example, their response (pdf) to the recent violence, which undercuts the government’s claim that this violence was “a totally unexpected phenomenon.” See also these papers on migration from Zimbabwe. Other working papers are here.
Comments
Your’re entiltled to your opinion, but the attempts of few people trying to cast negativities on south africa because they have a black government has been well overdue. Are these plans to use this negativity as a prelude to penetrate south africans again and hold them captive with a different strategy of modern day slavery?
Posted by: Vincenzo | June 10, 2008 09:21 AM
Vincenzo, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Please clarify.
Posted by: John Sides | June 10, 2008 10:42 PM