Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (5)

Helen Riding, “Say No to Xenophobia”. Harold Cressy High School, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

South Africa has recently been afflicted by xenophobic violence and the issue of migrants — mainly from the African continent — is a sensitive one. It is only logical that sociologists and migration specialists have, since March, reflected on the Covid-19 crisis, taking into account the parameter of migrant populations in the pandemic equation.

Regards des sciences humaines et sociales sur le Covid-19 en Afrique australe (5)

L’Afrique du Sud a été récemment marquée par des violences xénophobes et la question des migrants — principalement originaires du contient africain — y demeure sensible. Il est donc logique que sociologues et spécialistes des migrations aient, dès le mois de mars, réfléchi à la crise du Covid-19 en prenant en compte, dans l’équation de la pandémie, le paramètre des populations migrantes.

READ : Jo Vearey (African Centre for Migration and Society, Wits University) and Sally Gandar (Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town), “Foreign migrants must be included in Covid-19 response”, 20 & 30 March 2020.

READ : Khangelani Moyo (Associate Researcher at the Global Change Institute, Wits University) and Franzisca Zanker (Senior Research Fellow, Head of Cluster ‘Patterns of (Forced) Migration’, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute),”South Africa’s xenophobic agenda is impeding its coronavirus response, 9 April 2020 : https://africanarguments.org/2020/04/09/south-africa-coronavirus-xenophobic-agenda-impeding-response/ “