I Want To Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis

Editor(s): Loren Landau, Tanya Pampalone

I Want to Go Home Forever tells 13 true stories relating to xenophobia and belonging in Gauteng. Told from the perspective of both South Africans and immigrants, the stories reflect the difficulties and contradictions in their relations. Yet all reveal the desire to make a home in the ‘bright new future’ promised by a democratic South Africa.