Social justice and the persistence of racialized segregation

This chapter focuses on forms of migration by which patterns of segregation are re-laid in contexts of transformation. Migration and segregation create new spaces of exclusivity with barriers to entry that help to preserve and re-establish (racialized) inequality. The chapter considers how patterns of migration and segregation work to set up broader attitudes and intergroup relations, and when social change sets in motion practices of migration that undermine the creation of more social justice. Discourses of a “Rainbow Nation” were promoted, presenting hopes of all South Africans moving forward and working together to form a new, post-apartheid South Africa where diversity, justice, freedom, equality, unity and inclusion would become celebrated norms. In addition to the migration of people, post-apartheid cities have seen a movement of capital from urban centres that have largely been abandoned by white residents, investment and business.