After 20 years since the end of the apartheid, patterns of race and class continue to shape the subjectivities of South Africans, including those who have left the country during the regime. According to psychologist Christopher Sonn, a professor at the University of Victoria, Australia, these emigrants are marked by specific psychosocial processes of identity construction and negotiation of the sense of inclusion, which involve both the memories of the past oppression and the relationships with their homeland.