ABSTRACT

Issues of settler colonialism have renewed currency. The government of Zimbabwe, for example, recently began overseeing the total eviction of white farmers from what such farmers describe as “their land.” During the summer of 2002, BBC news aired numerous stories concerning these farmers and quoted men and women with heavy Afrikaner and English accents saying, “We're not being given one cent, nothing from the government for our property.” At the same time in the post-9/11 United States, it is quite possibly more difficult now to obtain an entry visa, let alone residency papers, than at any time in the nation's history of issuing such documents.