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“What is Your Race?” Eritrean Migrant Encounters with Racial Identification Questions in South Africa

by Amanuel Isak Tewolde  Abstract Even though there is extensive work on migrants in post-apartheid South Africa, their encounters with racial identification questions on bureaucratic forms and their reactions thereof is understudied. This paper addresses this gap by interviewing Eritrean migrants to examine how they reacted when they encountered racial identification questions on official forms. The […]