The post apartheid state forges ahead with nation building, reconciliation, and the cultivation
of an inclusive non-racial citizenship. The ANC government seems poised somewhere …

We began to think seriously about nationalism, perhaps like many others, when faced with
the catastrophic consequences of what appeared to be a sudden explosion of nationalism in …

As contemporary international migrants forge new webs of connection and social fields
between distant places, transnational scholarship seeks to understand and theorize these …

This paper takes stock of transnational perspectives on international migration.
Transnationalism concerns itself with social processes that are both rooted in, and …

Abstract In May 2008 South Africans made international headlines by embarking on a
hitherto unprecedented campaign of violence against African migrants. This violence formed …

The study of refugees by geographers and other social scientists is, almost by definition,
framed around a series of legal categories, which provide us with more or less neat …

Apartheid-era immigration laws remain in force in South Africa. The will to change is
considerable but the whole transformation process has been constantly bedeviled by the …

The negative attitudes of South Africans towards non-citizens, migrants and refugees have
been documented in several recent studies. Xenophobia has been officially recognized as a …

Making Population Geography is a lively account of the intellectual history of population
geography, arguing that, while population geography may drift in and out of fashion, it must …

What started off as attacks against'illegal aliens' soon became attacks against immigrants
legally here with their families, and then attacks on South Africans who'looked …