Includes bibliographical references.

A Torn narrative of violence / Alex Eliseev -- I did not expect such a thing to happen / Rolf Maruping -- (Dis)connections: elite and popular 'common sense' on the matter of 'foreigners' / Daryl Glaser -- Xenophobia in Alexanda / Noor Nieftagodien -- Behind xenophobia in South Africa -- poverty or inequality? / Stephen Gelb -- Relative deprivation, social instability and cultures of entitlement / Devan Pillay -- Violence, condemnation, and the meaning of living in South Africa / Loren B Landau -- Crossing borders / David Coplan -- Policing xenophobia -- xenophobic policing: a clash of legitimacy / Julia Hornberger -- Housing delivery, the urban crisis and xenophobia / Melinda Silverman and Tanya Zack -- Two newspapers, two nations? The Media and the xenophobic violence / Anton Harber -- Beyond citizenship: human rights and democracy ' Cathi Albertyn -- We are not all like that: race, class and nation after Apartheid / Andile Mngxitama -- Brutal inheritances: echoes, negrophobia and masculinist violence / Pumla Dineo Gqola -- Constructing the 'Other': learning from the Ivorian example / V�eronique Tadjo.

"On 28 May 2008 the Faculty of Humanities in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg convened an urgent colloquium that focused on searching for short- and long-term solutions. Nearly 20 individuals - mostly Wits academics from a variety of disciplines, but also two student leaders, a journalist and a bishop - addressed the unfolding violence in ways that were conversant with the moment, yet rooted in scholarship and ongoing research." "Go Home or Die Here emanates directly from the colloquium. It hopes to make sense of the nuances and trajectories of building a democratic society out of a deeply divided and conflictual past, in the conditions of global recession, heightening inequalities and future uncertainty."--Jacket.