AFRICAN HUMAN MOBILITY REVIEW
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14426/ahmr.v3i2.822Abstract
On a recent visit to Washington DC, I had an animated discussion with a taxi
driver who was an avid supporter of Donald Trump. The driver was not the
stereotypical white, middle-aged, small-town, working-class, non-collegeeducated,
angry voter who put Trump in the White House. Rather, he was a
former television producer and poet from India who had immigrated to the
US in the 1990s, and was adamant that Trump would stop the “flood of illegal
aliens†into the country. His vigorous defence of Trump was a surprise, as was
his buy-in to Trump’s anti-immigrant discourse of threat. There are few issues
in the contemporary world that generate so much uninformed debate and
misinformation as immigration (Blinder, 2015; de Haas, 2008; Hellwig and
Sinno, 2017; Valentino et al., 2013).
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