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Murambatsvina to Mabahambe: Xenophobia and the grammar of removal

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Watching buses carry displaced families away from a refugee processing centre in Cape Town, an old Zimbabwean word returned: Murambatsvina. Different histories, different states, but the same political grammar in which people are first removed from the circle of obligation before they are removed from place.

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