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Jo Vearey, Associate Professor and director at the African Centre for Migration & Society at Wits University, and Gina Snyman, an advocate and a member of the Johannesburg Bar, write for the City Press about the dangerous discourse which is used to justify xenophobic violence.

Professor Loren Landau explains in the New York Times some of the causes of the recent violence in South Africa. He argues that the attacks on immigrants are neither irrational nor spontaneous. 

Professor Loren Landau writes in the Daily Maverick about the current responses to xenophobia and about some misguided mobilisations.

Professor Loren Landau writes in News24 on how the anti-immigrant backlash makes us all unsafe.

Dr. Jean Pierre Misago writes for the Daily Maverick about the state’s role in xenophobic violence in South Africa.

Written by Dr. Jean Pierre Misago and Professor Loren Landau for the New Frame the article discusses, the ongoing violence against truck drivers and suggests a shift in target. While the direct target of xenophobic violence has usually been on international migrants, or outsiders in general, the current violence targets migrants and South African drivers indiscriminately.