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Exclusion: March and March protesters. Recent anti-immigrant campaigns and protests have reinforced this reality, demonstrating how quickly legal status can become irrelevant once a person is marked as an outsider. Photo: Facebook/March and March
XENOPHOBIA

When papers can't prove you belong

Growing up as a Zimbabwean migrant in South Africa, Kimberly Mabaso reflects on how invisible borders and xenophobia challenge the true meaning of belonging, far beyond what…

  • Kimberly Mabaso
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