This creeping form of observation marks a dangerous evolution in how power is exercised and dissent controlled
The movement purports to only encourage the government to act on undocumented immigrants but that’s a falsehood and its activities are criminal
A better understanding of the plight of refugees should make African immigrants more welcome on their own continent
Amadou Diallo, a Guinean man, was killed by NYPD officers 21 years ago. Today protesters still invoke his name as they fight for justice
Young Vietnamese driven by poverty, made worse by climate change, became traffickers’ victims
South Africans are not scared to tell us that even the president doesn’t want us here; that we should go back to where we belong.
Politicians find quick fix ‘solutions’ in a bid to appease citizens who accept false information
Blaming foreigners for a nation’s problems is a tactic beloved of populist and nationalist politicians everywhere
Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are expected to hit the streets of at least 10 major American cities
Guatemala called for an investigation into the boy’s death and some US lawmakers angrily denounced the Trump administration’s immigration policy
The two countries are grappling with how to handle the thousands of Central American migrants who are camped at the common border
A ‘foreign threat’ could be a convenient boogeyman in an election season where politicians will face questions about their failures. Or not?
‘The DA is not the only political actor in the country that is using foreigners as a convenient scapegoat for our significant economic problems’
‘The truth is that the likes of France continue to benefit from migration while still waging a war on migrants’
Britain’s interior minister Amber Rudd resigned Sunday, admitting she "inadvertently misled" lawmakers about deportation targets
The government of Macron’s predecessor Francois Hollande dismantled the Jungle — a squalid camp that at its height was home to some 10 000 people
An Indian immigrant-turned-milliner built the iconic Master Mansions, which stands firm amid the wind of change
The continent needs a humane migration policy in a world that is anti-migrant and anti-black.
Immigrants, illegal of not, will continue to traverse the globe in search of a better life
Malawian immigrants come in the hope of finding jobs – but if they don’t have the proper papers, they face arrest, detention and repatriation.
Malawian immigrants come in the hope of finding jobs – but if they don’t have the proper papers, they face arrest, detention and repatriation.
Every month Ernesto travels back to Mozambique from Sebokeng to get a new visitors’ visa, and he has done so for the past 20 years.
Abu Hamada, the kingpin of the Syrian smuggling network in Egypt, earns about $90 000 a week but sees nothing wrong in profiting from migrants.
After the recent xenophobic violence in SA the New York Times wrote that five million immigrants call South Africa home. Is this number exaggerated?
Eritrea is one of the most repressive states in the world and the refugee camps offer little freedom or safety, but enslavement and abuse instead.
You might one day meet a man in overalls and workers’ boots, carrying a bagful of maize cobs on his massive shoulders.
The last census estimated that there were 52-million people in SA. Recent reports cited claims by an academic that 20-million people weren’t counted.
Refugees run the border crossing gauntlet of lions, rivers, rape and theft hoping for a better life.
Readers comment on immigrants in the Middle East, the DA’s silence and linguistics, and Cope’s Mosiuoa Lekota challenges the ANC on party funding.
Neoliberalism is a hegemonic force out to wreck our country and Africans dying to flee the continent is senseless, say readers.
Many foreigners are desperate for a better life, but red tape and antagonism have left them hopeless.
Barack Obama has been bent on opening a pathway to citizenship for foreigners, even illegal ones.