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Album name: Immigration

Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
After 3 weeks of occupying outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Cape Town, refugees and asylum seekers wanting to leave the country due to xenophobia were evicted by police and law enforcement. Many were arrested.
30 October 2019
Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
After 3 weeks of occupying outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Cape Town, refugees and asylum seekers wanting to leave the country due to xenophobia were evicted by police and law enforcement. Many were arrested.
30 October 2019
Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
After 3 weeks of occupying outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Cape Town, refugees and asylum seekers wanting to leave the country due to xenophobia were evicted by police and law enforcement. Many were arrested.
30 October 2019
Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
After 3 weeks of occupying outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Cape Town, refugees and asylum seekers wanting to leave the country due to xenophobia were evicted by police and law enforcement. Many were arrested.
30 October 2019
Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
After 3 weeks of occupying outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Cape Town, refugees and asylum seekers wanting to leave the country due to xenophobia were evicted by police and law enforcement. Many were arrested.
30 October 2019
Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
After 3 weeks of occupying outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Cape Town, refugees and asylum seekers wanting to leave the country due to xenophobia were evicted by police and law enforcement. Many were arrested.
30 October 2019
Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
Refugees Evicted outside UNHCR
After 3 weeks of occupying outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Cape Town, refugees and asylum seekers wanting to leave the country due to xenophobia were evicted by police and law enforcement. Many were arrested.
30 October 2019
Refugees Camp Outside the UNHCR
Refugees Camp Outside the UNHCR
Refugees camp outside the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) offices in Cape Town, South Africa. Many of them are from Somalia, the DRC and Burundi and were forced to leave their countries of birth due to civil war. They are now pleading with UNHCR to be taken back home for fear of their lives in South Africa due to xenophobia.
24 October 2019
Refugees Camp Outside the UNHCR
Refugees Camp Outside the UNHCR
Refugees camp outside the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) offices in Cape Town, South Africa. Many of them are from Somalia, the DRC and Burundi and were forced to leave their countries of birth due to civil war. They are now pleading with UNHCR to be taken back home for fear of their lives in South Africa due to xenophobia.
18 October 2019
Refugees Camp Outside the UNHCR
Refugees Camp Outside the UNHCR
Refugees camp outside the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) offices in Cape Town, South Africa. Many of them are from Somalia, the DRC and Burundi and were forced to leave their countries of birth due to civil war. They are now pleading with UNHCR to be taken back home for fear of their lives in South Africa due to xenophobia.
18 October 2019
Photo of Elube Mwalwen
Photo of Elube Mwalwen
Elube Mwalwen, a Malawian national, surveys the damage done to the room she rents in the house in Rosettenville that was set alight during a vigilante attack.
12 February 2017
Photo of destroyed tuck shop
Photo of destroyed tuck shop
This tuck shop run by an Ethiopian family was destroyed by vigilantes in Rosettenville, Gauteng
12 February 2017

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