Mean streets: Migration, xenophobia and informality in South Africa

Palmary, Ingrid

doi:10.1080/10220461.2016.1254678

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“…As a consequence of the above structural issues, refugee participants complained of not fully benefitting from the socioeconomic rights enshrined in the Refugee Act 130 of 1998 as many did not possess refugee status papers (Section 24 permits) and thus were not legally recognized as refugees. In essence, such a situation inhibits refugees from accessing the legal rights tenable through a possession of Section 24 and Section 27 permits (Amisi & Bollard, 2005; Palmary, 2003; Sibanda & Vally, 2012).…”

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“…Although Murphy (1986, p. 25) refers to this as a form of material monopolization, other researchers identify the expropriation of value-producing resources as a form of “opportunity hoarding” (Tilly, 2000 cited in Mosse, 2007, p. 18). As a primary cultural or derivative form of exclusion, several studies in South Africa also discovered hostile relations between locals and the generality of migrants in the informal sector (Palmary, 2003, p. 112 cited in Landau, 2005, p. 22). One participant said: In other communities I will take for example owning a business, there is war between business owners and foreign nationals.…”

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“…In South Africa, a study of Cape Town by Palmary (2003) also revealed another primary cultural impediment to refugees’ access to socioeconomic sectors. In the study, the city’s vagrancy unit (a specialized group of by-law enforcement agents) seemed unaware that refugees were entitled to work in South Africa.…”

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“…In the study, the city’s vagrancy unit (a specialized group of by-law enforcement agents) seemed unaware that refugees were entitled to work in South Africa. Prejudicial power relations (through the actions of a team coordinated by the municipality for determining the criteria of informal trade) were leading to the exclusion of refugees from areas of commerce (Palmary, 2003, p. 11). Other studies on refugees in Iraq and Sweden also identified how such co-ethnic, “dense relations of trust and reciprocity are riddled with relations of power, control and internal hierarchies” (Cederberg, 2012, p. 64).…”

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“…In South Africa, legal rational authority (Refugee Act 130 of 1998) is undermined by traditional authority’s xenophobic predilections. This has inadvertently impeded the socioeconomic integration of Congolese refugees (Amisi & Ballard, 2005; Crush et al, 2013, p. 8; Palmary, 2003).…”

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Challenges to Refugees’ Socioeconomic Inclusion: A Lens Through the Experiences of Congolese Refugees in South Africa

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In antithesis to the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development (socioeconomic inclusion for all) and a relatively progressive refugee policy framework (Refugee Act 130 of 1998), refugees in South Africa continue to face targeted exclusion and reduced living potentials. Impediments to refugee groups ability to ‘thrive and not just survive’ (as called for in the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees), are examined in this paper through a synopsis of the conditions surrounding their access to legal documents (a conduit to socioeconomic rights), their equitable participation/inclusion within the formal labour markets, financial sectors etc. In examining these issues, a case-study-based interpretive research design technique with eight FGD participants and two life history participants (drawn from Congolese refugees’ residing in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) was done. Several conceptual frameworks as well as a single principal theory (Murphy’s theory of monopolization) were utilized so as to fully examine forced migrant groups socioeconomic participation/inclusion in South Africa. This articles findings revealed that primary cultural, as well as structural agentive processes of obstruction significantly inhibit refugee groups full socioeconomic participating in the life of their host communities. The said obstructions included but were not confined to: adverse forms of incorporation, opportunity hoarding, as well as the normative unobtainability of social, cultural, and symbolic forms of capital.

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2021

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The democratic jurisdiction in Africa meant to re‐instil peace in the continent, unite her people and champion the philosophy of Ubuntu. It has endeavoured to eradicate the enduring legacies of colonial hegemony and assert a new identity distinguished by autonomous ideologies. Despite the dispensation of these efforts, African societies are still bedevilled by colonial fragments. This is evinced by the appalling racist undertones and xenophobic spells that are overbearing in Africa in the democratic wave. Today, the African continent is vexed by the increasing rate of xenophobic outbreaks that sometimes appear to be anchored in racist connotations. This, inter alia, menaces African humanism and social development in African societies. This qualitative paper has aimed to uproot racist precipitants in xenophobic attacks. It is theoretical in nature and evaluates the rapport between racism and xenophobia from an Afrocentric perspective. The study has found that the xenophobic sentiments in the present day are framed within the imaginings of race. It has illuminated racial identity as a catalyst for xenophobia.

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Mean streets: Migration, xenophobia and informality in South Africa

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Challenges to Refugees’ Socioeconomic Inclusion: A Lens Through the Experiences of Congolese Refugees in South Africa

Challenges to Refugees’ Socioeconomic Inclusion: A Lens Through the Experiences of Congolese Refugees in South Africa

Racist connotations in xenophobic outbreaks: An Afrocentric evaluation

Protecting the ‘Most Vulnerable’? The Management of a Disaster and the Making/Unmaking of Victims After Xenophobic Violence in 2008 in South Africa

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