The increased immigration to post-apartheid South Africa of Black African migrants has given rise to widespread xenophobic sentiments and recurrent violence against them. Over the past three decades, migration scholars have extensively studied the phenomenon of xenophobia as a major problem in citizen–migrant relations. However, most migration scholars’ predominant focus on xenophobia in South Africa appears to have overlooked positive migrant–citizen relations in some places, though a few scholars have noted the presence of xenophilia in certain communities. Drawing on an auto-ethnographic qualitative approach, this paper reports on my own lived experiences, as a Black African refugee, with xenophilia in my everyday interactions in a multi-cultural urban suburb of Sunnyside, Pretoria. This paper attempts to add nuance to existing scholarship on citizen–non-citizen relations in post-apartheid South Africa. I argue that multi-cultural urban neighborhoods in South Africa, where there are everyday inter-ethnic interactions, friendships, amenities, services, and shared spaces, tend to function as drivers of social cohesion and inter-group conviviality.

黑人非洲移民越来越多地移民到种族隔离后的南非，这引起了广泛的仇外情绪和针对他们的反复暴力。在过去的三年中，移民学者广泛研究了仇外现象作为公民与移民关系中的一个主要问题。然而，大多数移民学者对南非仇外心理的主要关注似乎忽略了某些地方积极的移民-公民关系，尽管一些学者注意到某些社区存在仇外情绪。本文采用自民族志定性方法，报告了我自己的生活经历，作为一名非洲黑人难民，我在比勒陀利亚桑尼赛德的多元文化城市郊区的日常交往中与仇外心理有关。本文试图在种族隔离后的南非现有​​的关于公民-非公民关系的学术研究中增加细微差别。我认为，南非的多元文化城市街区，每天都有不同种族之间的互动、友谊、便利设施、服务和共享空间，往往会成为社会凝聚力和群体间欢乐的驱动力。