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Unspoken inequality: How COVID-19 has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities of asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2020)
An estimated 2 million foreign-born migrants of working age (15-64) were living in South Africa (SA) in 2017. Structural and practical xenophobia has driven asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in SA to ...
The letters of Sushila Gandhi: From press worker to managing trustee of Phoenix settlement in South Africa, 1927 to 1977
(SAGE Publications, 2023)
On 18 March 1949, Sita Gandhi, the eldest daughter of Manilal and Sushila Gandhi, responded to a request for information from Louis Fischer who was writing his biography of Mohandas Gandhi. The 21 years old had taken over ...
Of borders and crossings: The lives of a healer in northern Mozambique
(Journal of Southern African Studies, 2022)
Background: Daria Trentini’s book is a narrative exploration of the life and practice of a healer in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula. Ansha, the titular protagonist, was a Makonde migrant from the province of Cabo ...
Book review: scripting defiance: four sociological vignettes
(SAGE, 2023)
Background: Scripting Defiance is vast, notwithstanding the modesty of its subtitle – Four Sociological Vignettes. It comes in at 530 pages. It is fundamentally vast in ambition, with its breadth of empirical examples, and ...