2023
‘A Foreigner is Not a Person in This Country’: Xenophobia and the Informal Sector in South Africa’s Secondary Cities
South Africa’s major cities are periodically wracked by large-scale xenophobic violence directed at migrants and refugees from other countries. Informal sector businesses and their migrant owners and employees are particularly vulnerable targets during these attacks. Migrant-owned businesses are also targeted on a regular basis in smaller-scale looting and destruction of property. There is now a
Digital Disruptions in the South Africa-Zimbabwe Remittance Corridor During COVID-19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant remittances has generated a great deal of confusion and debate. This article aims to test three conflicting global and local narratives about the relationship between the pandemic and remittance flows in the South Africa–Zimbabwe remittance corridor. We refer to these as remittance pessimism, remittance resilience and remittance
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A Imigração Africana e os Novos Espaços Urbanos no Municipio da Cidada de Maputo
Os estudos de migração enfatizam as causas dos movimentos populacionais, impacto demográfico e econômico e distribuição espacial dos fluxos migratórios dando menor foco aos novos espaços urbanos criados por aqueles que vieram de outros lugares dentro dos territórios africanos. O foco deste estudo são os imigrantes africanos na cidade de Maputo no sentido de compreender
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Intersections of Race, COVID-19 Pandemic, and Food Security in Black Identifying Canadian Households: A Scoping Review
Although studies have identified food insecurity as a racialized inequity issue disproportionately affecting Black identifying Canadians, research exploring how anti-Black racism across multiple systems create inequities including increased risk for food insecurity among African Caribbean Black identifying households in Canada, is limited. Using an intersectionality lens, this scoping review addresses this knowledge gap by elucidating