" This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in
irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes …

Immigration governance scholars often focus on formal, national regulations and how local
implementation and resistance rations access to space and resources. Research into …

Deportation practices are commonly described through the lens of a 'state of exception', a
condition where government assumes extra-judicial and near absolute authority over its …

This chapter explores how migration control in South Africa affects undocumented migrants'
sense and use of time. Intensified migration control makes the prospects of arrest and …

All governments enforce immigration laws, but we have a limited understanding of the
factors that determine how much they do so. Immigration policymakers can empower or …

This paper discusses the findings of fifteen focus groups that explored civilian perceptions
and experience of police corruption in South Africa. The research was conducted in and …

Policing in South Africa has gained notoriety through its extensive history of oppressive law
enforcement. In 1994, as the country's apartheid system was replaced with a democratic …

Over the past decade, South Africa's political leadership has increasingly framed
international migration as a threat to national, physical and economic security. This has …

106 CONTEMPORARY MIGRATION TO SOUTH AFRICA agencies and officials must
continue to implement control-oriented policies and practices, including the arrest, detention …

For the past several years, South Africa's response to “illegal” migration has been overly
restrictive, exclusionary and control-oriented. Its approach has focused on arresting …