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Displacement, Estrangement and Sovereignty: Reconfiguring State Power in Urban South Africa

 Academic writing often portrays migrants as either passive victims of violence and aid recipients or as courageous heroes facing horrific indifference and hazards. This article recodes them and their activities as potent forces for reshaping practices of state power. In this depiction, displacement also becomes a lens for re-evaluating the nature of sovereignty in urban … Continue reading Displacement, Estrangement and Sovereignty: Reconfiguring State Power in Urban South Africa