Professor Loren Landau, South African Research Chair for Mobility & the Politics of Difference, African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand

“This is an impressive study that makes a subtle and sophisticated argument around the making of social space and its implications for varied forms of conviviality in Cape Town. Although deeply grounded in the specificities of Bellville, there are important lessons in this book for the emerging nature of South African society and for how we understand issues of conflict, difference and everyday life. In this regard, the way in which a history of mobility and its relationship to space is regularly evoked is a critical counter to the kind of narratives regularly evoked to justify exclusion.”