Ruth First Lecture 2019 | Achille Mbembe
Sorrowing over the treatment of migrants, Achille Mbembe calls for Africa to adopt a pro-migration stance, phase out colonial borders and become ‘a vast space of circulation’.
Migration
Durban refugee office turns away asylum applicants
A staff shortage means asylum seekers are unable to make appointments to apply for refugee status, which creates an ever larger pool of vulnerable and essentially untraceable people.
‘Foreigners’ in the land of their birth
Two brothers born in South Africa to Angolan refugees have won their legal fight for citizenship in the only country they have ever known. But the Department of Home Affairs still wants to deny them this right.
We must resist death-dealing borders
Borders are not merely barriers to movement. As inscriptions of colonial projects and power, intended to spatialise race and racialise space, they must be contested and rethought.
Overcoming borders and prejudice with theatre
Based on the true testimony of four asylum seekers and a fictitious home affairs official, Frontières stages the realities of what it means to be a refugee in South Africa.
New Books | Hotspots and the European Migration Regime
Migration across the Mediterannean has stirred isolationist and nationalist policies. A new book uses migration ‘as a vocabulary to talk about the human condition in Europe today’.