Deportation of foreigners has worsened SA’s socio-economic situation

Dr. Rebecca Walker of the African Centre for Migration and Society at Wits questioned whether SA’s costly repatriation drive was actually tackling migration or just moving people across borders. South Africa has spent almost R300 million repatriating foreign nationals, with nearly 90,000 people removed as part of the government's migration crackdown. Dr. Rebecca Walker says a strategy can only be deemed effective when it produces the outcome it was designed to. The question that needs to be asked, she said, is 'what was the aim?'. GUEST: Dr. Rebecca Walker, Researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society at Wits University