In the wake of South Africa's June 30 anti-immigration protests, thousands of foreign nationals have returned to Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe carrying losses that no repatriation flight can account for — severed livelihoods, interrupted childhoods, and in at least one case, a body set on fire. Their stories remind us that migration is rarely a single dramatic crossing but a slow accumulation of small dignities, and that forced departure undoes not just a journey but a life carefully assembled in someone else's country. As political pressure in South Africa mounts toward a September deporta
Migrants struggle after forced exodus from South Africa, some vow return
One migrant was violently attacked and set on fire during anti-immigration protests; multiple families displaced with children removed from school mid-year.