There is a very interesting paper, written by Lindsay Bremner, entitled "Bounded Spaces: Demographic Anxieties in Post-apartheid Johannesburg" – about how all humans are compelled to find not just the "other' but the "threatening other' in their environments, outside of themselves and in other people, as a way of diverting the primal feeling that we ourselves have the potential to be our own 'threatening other.' She stresses how in South Africa, now that Apartheid has been dismantled, those violent binaries and distinctions, mostly around race, which were part of the system are now not usable/relevant/acceptable and so on (not that they ever were, but many people were complicit with them, as we all know). What she writes is that in our social and political landscape, there now exists a lack, a vortex where the threatening others of apartheid, whether they were racist 'boers' or 'terrorists', are no more. The impulse is then to look elsewhere for the deference of our innate sense of trauma and auto-threat, to place it upon someone else, something else, another 'threatening other'- to make ourselves feel safe in ourselves. In comes the Nigerian immigrant, mercantile, smart, visible, and we label him criminal, drug dealer, hustler, thief. The creation of the criminal other, especially, the foreign criminal other, is the ultimate useful displacement of ourselves.