South Africa and Migration
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- Local government and cross-border migration
- T. Polzer / The Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, 2008
- Local government is finally beginning to examine the issues around cross-border migration with several metro municipalities in South Africa recently developing independent policies related to migrants and refugees. However policies ar...
- How should violence be prevented in South Africa?
- R. Fuller; V. Williams; N. Jaynes; Z. Nkongolo / Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2008
- In May 2008, South Africa was shaken by an outbreak of a wave of violence characterised by an intensity and fierceness previously unknown in this young democracy and reminiscent of apartheid bloodshed. This edition contains articles b...
- Is South Africa protecting the rights of non nationals?
- The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA), 2008
- In South Africa non-nationals, refugees, asylum seekers, and other immigrants are often excluded from the services, welfare, and dignity they are guaranteed by South African law and constitutional commitments. Issued annually in comme...
- Rapid response study on citizenship, violence and xenophobia in South Africa
- Democracy and Governance Programme Human Sciences Research Council / Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2008
- More than 50 people died and tens of thousands of people were displaced as a result of ‘xenophobic’ violence in South Africa during 2008. A number of urgent questions resulted from these attacks: Why are foreign African mi...
- How South Africa responds to Zimbabwean women fleeing violence
- Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006
- Large numbers of Zimbabwean women are fleeing their homes and even their country to avoid violence. This report was written to coincide with South Africa's 'Sixteen days on gender activism'. It shows that a significant proportion of t...
- The pitfalls and benefits of regional migration in Southern Africa
- R. Leslie / Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa, 2008
- According to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), by July 2007 the number of Zimbabweans deported from South Africa to their home country had reached 17 000 each month. Cross-border movements on this scale inevitably fe...
- Is South Africa doing enough for Zimbabwean migrants?
- D. Vigneswaran / The Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, 2008
- This document examines South Africa’s response to people fleeing from political crises and economic deprivation in one of its immediate neighbours. It also tests prominent claims made about the nature and scope of migration. ...
- Representation of immigrants in South Africa
- D. Vigneswaran / Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2007
- This paper studies the South African media’s representation of undocumented migrants from 1998 to 2005. It examines the relationship between the media’s legitimation of state immigration control and South Africa’s un...
- Understanding the movements of Somali refugees
- Joëlle Moret; Simone Baglion; Denise E. Mäder / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Since the late 1980s, Somalis have been leaving their country, fleeing civil war, poverty, drought and famine. Today they form one of the world’s largest diasporas. With local integration in neighbouring states or asylum in Europ...
- Insights into South Africa’s Islamic community
- S. Jeppie / Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2007
- The Arabic Study Circle, established in the 1950s, has had an enduring impact on linguistic, religious and cultural politics in the South African port city of Durban. This book provides a micro-history of a middle-class community thro...
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