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Blaming migrants ignores the real causes of South Africa’s economic crisis

Posted on Wed 01 July 2026 in South Africa • Tagged with south-africa, xenophobia, migration, unemployment, economic-crisis, social-justice

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Justin Visagie, University of the Witwatersrand and Ruth Castel-Branco, University of the Witwatersrand

South Africa is in the midst of its most significant anti-immigrant mobilisation in years.

The emergence of the March and March movement, calls for the mass deportation of undocumented migrants by 30 …

Slave auctions in Libya are the latest evidence of a reality for migrants the EU prefers to ignore

Posted on Mon 11 December 2017 in Africa • Tagged with Migration, Libya, Asylum seeker, Refugees, Modern slavery, EU, EU asylum law

Simon McMahon, Coventry University

A man called out numbers against the murky darkness of the Libyan night: “400, 500, 600, 650.” These were bids in Libyan dinars during a slave auction. Video footage of these scenes, aired in mid-November by CNN, thrust concerns about the conditions facing migrants at Europe …