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Searching with a thematic focus on Conflict and security, Conflict and vulnerable groups in South Africa

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    “Let us eat airtime”: youth identity and ‘xenophobic’ violence in a low-income neighbourhood in Cape Town

    Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2009
    This paper was as a result of a survey which was carried out in South Africa to demonstrate how the scarcity of food may have resulted in the May 2008 violence. The author analyses how social identities and divisions function among South Africans and how groups’ positions were understood, by participants, in the context of the broader society. He then discusses terms such as:
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    Double jeopardy: women migrants and refugees in South Africa

    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.
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    Protecting refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in South Africa

    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.
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    Citizenship, violence and xenophobia in South Africa: perceptions from South African communities

    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 migrants the targets of violence in informal settlements? What is the explanation for the timing, location and scale of the outbreaks?

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