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- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (33 pages) :) : illustrations.
- Summary
- This report examines the impact of xenophobic violence on Zimbabweans who are trying to make a living in the South African informal sector and finds that xenophobic violence has several key characteristics that put them at constant risk of losing their livelihoods and their lives. The businesses run by migrants and refugees in the informal sector are a major target of South Africa's extreme xenophobia. Attitudinal surveys clearly show that South Africans differentiate migrants by national origin and that Zimbabweans are amongst the most disliked. This report is based on a survey of informal sector enterprises in Cape Town and Johannesburg; and 50 in-depth interviews with Zimbabwean informal business owners in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Polokwane who had been affected by xenophobic violence. In many areas, community leaders are ineffective in dealing with the violence and, in some cases, they actively foment hostility and instigate attacks. The fact that migrant entrepreneurs provide goods, including food, at competitive prices and offer credit to consumers is clearly insufficient to protect them when violence erupts. However, the deep-rooted crisis in Zimbabwe makes return home a non-viable option and Zimbabweans instead adopt several self-protection strategies, none of which is ultimately an insurance against xenophobic attack. The findings in this report demonstrate that xenophobic violence fails in its two main aims: to drive migrant entrepreneurs out of business and to drive them out of the country.
- Series Statement
- SAMP migration policy series ; no. 77
- Uniform Title
- Living With Xenophobia (Online)
- Migration policy series ; no. 77.
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Living With Xenophobia (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-30).
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Migration for survival -- Experiencing xenophobia -- Responses to xenophobic violence -- Perceptions of government inaction -- Conclusion.
- OCLC
- ssj0001875313
- Author
Crush, Jonathan, 1953-
- Title
Living With Xenophobia [electronic resource] : Zimbabwean Informal Enterprise in South Africa / Jonathan Crush, Godfrey Tawodzera, Abel Chikanda and Daniel Tevera.
- Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Waterloo, Ontario : Southern African Migration Programme, 2017. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
SAMP migration policy series ; no. 77
Migration policy series ; no. 77.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-30).
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Tevera, Daniel S.
Chikanda, Abel.
Tawodzera, Godfrey.
Project Muse.
- Other Form:
Print version: 9781920596378