Mapping Hostilities: The Geography of Xenophobia in Southern Africa

Crush, Jonathan; Pendleton, Wade

doi:10.1080/03736245.2007.9713874

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“…The findings of these surveys show that a majority of South Africans preferred restrictive immigration policies 2 and held anti-immigrant sentiments (Crush, Ramachandran, & Pendleton, 2013). The 2001The -2002 National Immigration Policy Survey, fielded in Southern Africa, confirmed these findings (Crush & Pendleton, 2007). Despite this survey work, the quantitative public opinion research on anti-immigrant sentiment in South Africa is relatively thin.…”

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Neighbourhood-level social capital and anti-immigrant prejudice in an African context: an individual-level analysis of attitudes towards immigrants in South Africa

Gordon

Maharaj

2015

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics

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African states are often characterised as low trust societies. Could a deficiency of social capital explain prejudice towards immigrants in such societies? Using South Africa as a case study, this paper tests the effect of social trust, social bonds with neighbours and a sense of community on attitudes towards foreigners. The results reveal that social capital may be a more important predictor of attitudes than economic status. Social bonds between neighbours and a sense of community were found to be more salient determinants of prejudice than social trust. In African societies it is, therefore, important to invest in programmes that promote social cohesion within communities.

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Neighbourhood-level social capital and anti-immigrant prejudice in an African context: an individual-level analysis of attitudes towards immigrants in South Africa

Gordon

Maharaj

2015

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics

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“…More than 60 people were killed in the nationwide attacks. This violence was the culmination of an extended and drawn-out campaign of aggression by South Africans against immigrants from other African countries, the start of which dates back to the early 1990s (Crush and Pendleton, 2007). 3.…”

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“…This relates first, to the real rise in undocumented cross-border migrant movement in the region over the past 15 years, and the way in which Southern African states have reacted towards this; and second, to the societal responses which the arrival of legal and illegal migrants have evoked in host communities. From a societal perspective, there has been a general hardening of attitudes towards migrant populations across the region and xenophobic expressions have increased (Campbell, 2003;Crush and Pendleton, 2007;Nyamnjoh, 2006). The rising tide of xenophobia has been most marked and aggressive in South Africa, culminating in an extended and widespread antiimmigrant campaign in May 2008, which stood out for the brutality used by South African nationals against black African foreigners.…”

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“…The migration policies of many states are generally inward focused and slightly protectionist in tenor. Many of the region's governments have not condemned emergent signs of xenophobia in their countries, their silence appearing as tacit endorsement of growing intolerance (Crush and Pendleton, 2007;Morapedi, 2007). Officials within some governments have even actively made use of anti-immigrant rhetoric, fuelling incipient signs of social prejudice (McDonald and Jacobs, 2005).…”

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Migration Regimes and the Politics of Difference in Contemporary Southern Africa

Cornelissen

2009

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The issue of migration and in particular the increase in irregular or undocumented migration has become highly politicised in Southern Africa. This has involved a rise in social intolerance towards migrant populations and outright xenophobia in many countries. This brief article examines the dynamics and complexities of migration in current-day Southern Africa and contextualises it in relation to the most salient issues, discourses and practices that characterise migration governance at the international level. The article highlights that predominant approaches to the governance of migration in the region reflect some of the dynamics which have marked migration discourse and praxis in the international sphere, but that they also carry some distinct characteristics. Trends of securitisation and related exclusionary practices of citizenship, which have become more pronounced in the international sphere, are emulated in Southern Africa. State and societal processes and reactions to higher levels of regional migration have created a context in which social polarisation and the entrenchment of difference prevails. This has meant that prime questions about how to ameliorate the socio-economic and political circumstances which evoke migrant flows in the first instance, and on how to deal with the inefficiencies in Southern Africa's current migration policies, have remained largely unasked by the region's rulers. Overall, Southern Africa's migration regime evidences two contradictory thrusts, one which seeks to encourage closer regional and specifically economic integration, and the other which resists the assumed threats posed to national sovereignty by increased migrant flows and which leads to a fractious regional governance system.

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“…of anti-immigrant attitudes and violence (Poppe 2001;Morris 1998;Tshitereke 1999;Burns 2008;Crush and Pendleton 2007;Bilal et.al 2003;O'Connell 2005); of distrust of other national populations (Gerritsen and Lubbers 2010); and of scepticism towards various aspects of European integration (Hobolt and Lablond 2009;Burgoon 2009b;Cosmina and Colonescu 2008). Some of these fi ndings are not without dispute, as some fi nd only weak correlation between economic hardships and xenophobia (Green et.al.…”

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Inequality and anti-globalization backlash by political parties

Burgoon

2012

European Union Politics

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Does income inequality increase political backlash against European and global integration? This paper reports research suggesting that it can. The article analyses party opposition to and support for trade openness, European Union integration and general internationalism of political party platforms in advanced industrial democracies between 1960 and 2008. It finds that inequality tends to increase anti-globalization positions of parties, net of pro-globalization positions, an effect that does not significantly differ across party families or levels of actual globalization. This effect, however, does depend on, and is diminished by, generous redistributive policies. These findings clarify socio-economic conditions underlying the backlash against political and economic globalization.

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Mapping Hostilities: The Geography of Xenophobia in Southern Africa

Cited by 33 publications

References 7 publications

Neighbourhood-level social capital and anti-immigrant prejudice in an African context: an individual-level analysis of attitudes towards immigrants in South Africa

Neighbourhood-level social capital and anti-immigrant prejudice in an African context: an individual-level analysis of attitudes towards immigrants in South Africa

Migration Regimes and the Politics of Difference in Contemporary Southern Africa

Inequality and anti-globalization backlash by political parties

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