Xenophobia Media

Social media has become a key space for anti-immigrant social media conversation in South Africa, shaping how people discuss migration, nationality and belonging. While online platforms can support healthy public debate, they can also amplify hostile narratives, misinformation, stereotyping and calls for exclusion directed at migrants and foreign nationals. Monitoring this conversation matters because online …

Factsheet on anti-immigrant social media conversation in South Africa Read More »

Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change Over the years, the South African online anti-immigrant narrative has drawn on several topics and issues to substantiate calls for immigrants to return to their home countries. Among these are that immigrants were responsible for crime, unemployment, and the depletion of public services, including hospitals, schools, and prisons.  The …

How the conversation about the employment of immigrants at SA universities is being amplified online Read More »