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OP-ED: Border walls don’t stop viruses. But this might

April 28, 2020January 13, 2021Leave a comment

An effective response to South Africa’s coronavirus outbreak is an inclusive response. This keeps migrants safe and it keeps everyone in South Africa healthy. It reduces the need for people to cross the border through irregular routes that may not only be dangerous but do not have the healthcare workers needed to screen people for the new virus. Effective management of this public health crisis will involve all of us. This would truly be a case of, what Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi recently called, “international solidarity”.

OP-ED: Why xenophobia is bad for the health of all in South Africa

April 28, 2020Leave a comment

To successfully address COVID-19, our public health programming must engage with everyone in South Africa, including refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants from elsewhere on the continent and beyond. We must use inclusive language in our messaging, and avoid the tendency of the state to refer to South African “citizens”—rather than to “all in South Africa”—in their COVID-19 communication. We must work collectively and without discrimination if we are to have any chance of slowing down the virus’s spread. This isn’t negotiable: it is a must in the context of COVID-19 if we are to support, as best we can, our already struggling public healthcare system (which, by the way, is not struggling due to the presence of foreign migrants in the country, in spite of popular opinion to the contrary).

About this blog

September 5, 2016September 5, 2016Leave a comment

This blog is an attempt to share and discuss my thinking about the politics of producing, communicating and using knowledge, and to explore if (and if so, how) this affects my research and practice. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, my research is concerned with the two politically - and publicly - unpopular issues of migration and health.  As a result, … Continue reading About this blog

[PODCAST] The need for migration-aware HIV responses

August 25, 2016September 5, 2016Leave a comment

In July 2016, I was interviewed on Ubuntu Radio about the need for migration-aware HIV responses in southern Africa.  Ntokozo Yingwana (also of maHp) wrote a great piece for The Conversation about this.      

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