Browsing by Subject "Xenophobia"
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African Pentecostal churches and racialized xenophobia: International migrants as agents of transformational development?
(SAGE, 2022)Scholarship on Pentecostal potential and practice forms a significant part of the debate on religion and development, not least when the focus is on sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in this debate African Pentecostal migrant communities ... -
Anxious urbanity: xenophobia, the native subject and the refugee camp
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)Could we think of the black subject under apartheid as a refugee, and might this condition be the paradigmatic metaphor for thinking about the postcolonial African predicament of citizenship? This paper considers the ... -
Church, narrative, community and identity in times of migration
(AOSIS, 2020)Migration is perceived by many communities as a threat to national unity, social cohesion, nationality or common identity. This article is an attempt to address the following question: How does or should the church as a ... -
Complicit refugees, cosmopolitans and xenophobia: Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner' and Romesh Gunesekera's 'Reef' in conversation with texts on xenophobia in South Africa
(Common Ground, 2008)In the aftermath of the brutal xenophobic attacks in parts of South Africa against 'other' Africans between March and May this year, a fairly sustained (if repetitive) public debate has emerged in the local press. The aim ... -
The Contribution of a community-based organisation in challenging xenophobia through participation: a perspective from Site C, Khayelitsha
(Cogent, 2022)This article investigated the contribution of a community-based organisation; Site C, Action Committee Against Xenophobia in Khayelitsha, Site C, in challenging prejudice against African migrants. The purpose of the study ... -
Deconstructing ‘the foreign’: The limits of citizenship for explaining price competition in the Spaza sector in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)An important component of the informal economy in South Africa, the Spaza sector is portrayed as dominated by foreign nationals who outcompete South African shopkeepers on price. Indeed, this business competition from ... -
'Foreigners are stealing our birth right': Moral panics and the discursive construction of Zimbabwean immigrants in South African media
(SAGE Publications, 2014)We examine 575 randomly selected articles on Zimbabwean immigrants from the South African Media (SAM) database to expose discourses of exclusion and the production of the psycho-social condition - moral panic. We use ... -
Language practices as religious Innovation: The case of Pentecostal charismatic churches in xenophobic contexts
(SAGE, 2021)In the authors’ recent case-study research of migrant-dominated Pentecostal charismatic churches (PCCs) in the South African cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town, language emerged as a prominent feature of religious practice, ... -
Living with xenophobia: Zimbabwean informal enterprise in South Africa
(Southern African Migration Programme, 2017)South Africa’s crisis of xenophobia is defined by the discrimination and intolerance to which migrants are exposed on a daily basis. A major target of the country’s extreme xenophobia – defined as a heightened form of ... -
Organising Somalian, Congolese and Rwandan migrants in a time of xenophobia in South Africa: empirical and methodological reflections
(Springer, 2018)Xenophobic practices pervade civil society and the state in South Africa. But its victims are not passive. Academic scholarship has not sufficiently recognised the multiple roles of refugees and asylum seekers migrant ...