Impact of Immigration and Xenophobia on Development in Africa

Impact of Immigration and Xenophobia on Development in Africa
Author: Mafukata, Mavhungu Abel
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2020-12-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1799871010

Human movement has an influence on the socio-economic dynamics of people, regions, and countries. The schisms between host and immigrants impact how host countries utilize immigrant skills and expertise to benefit their economies. However, immigrants are impacted by negative diplomatic relations between countries that limit the free movement of people and the welfare of immigrants. In association, this brings about social challenges such as Afrophobia, racism, xenophobia, hatred, and violence within these countries. While these challenges are deeply rooted across the world, Africa has its own unique challenges. Still struggling with massive underdevelopment, Africa needs to remove all the negative factors that could impede its quest of achieving development imperatives. Impact of Immigration and Xenophobia on Development in Africa analyzes the genesis and evolution of immigration in Africa and how this has resulted in social challenges such as xenophobia within the continent. The book focuses on demonstrating how immigrant skills and expertise can be positively utilized to assist African development and asserts the existence of xenophobia in respective countries does not assist Africa’s quest of resolving its own challenges. The chapters within this book therefore explore how this subsequent output of xenophobia has impacted African development and focuses on the revival of Pan-Africanism as a uniting instrument and ideology for Africans. This book is a valuable reference tool for activists, retired and practicing politicians, governments, policymakers, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, students, and academicians.

Mediating Xenophobia in Africa

Mediating Xenophobia in Africa
Author: Dumisani Moyo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030612368

This book brings together contributions that analyse different ways in which migration and xenophobia have been mediated in both mainstream and social media in Africa and the meanings of these different mediation practices across the continent. It is premised on the assumption that the media play an important role in mediating the complex intersection between migration, identity, belonging, and xenophobia (or what others have called Afrophobia), through framing stories in ways that either buttress stereotyping and Othering, or challenge the perceptions and representations that fuel the violence inflicted on so-called foreign nationals. The book deals with different expressions of xenophobic violence, including both physical and emotional violence, that target the foreign Other in different African countries.

Xenophobia in South Africa

Xenophobia in South Africa
Author: Hashi Kenneth Tafira
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2017-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319677144

This book is a vivid history of racism in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on how colonialism still haunts black intraracial relationships. In 2008, sixty-four people died in a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg; in the aftermath, Hashi Kenneth Tafira went to Alexandra and undertook an ethnographic study of why this violence occurred. Presented here, his findings reframe xenophobia as a form of black-on-black racism, unraveling the long history of colonial dehumanization and self-abnegation that continues to shape South African black subjectivities. Studying vernacular, popular stereotypes, gender, and sexual politics, Tafira investigates the dynamics of love relationships between black South African women and black immigrant men, and pervasive myths about male sexuality, economic competition, and immigrants. Pioneering and timely, this book presents a cohesive picture of the new face of racism in the twenty-first century.

Regional Integration in Africa

Regional Integration in Africa
Author: André Mbata Betukumesu Mangu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Africa
ISBN: 9789004399938

In Regional Integration in Africa: What Role for South Africa, Henri Bah, Siphamandla Zondi and André Mbata Mangu reflect on African integration. Despite some progress made, Africa is lagging behind and South Africa has not played a major role.

Gender Justice, Development, and Rights

Gender Justice, Development, and Rights
Author: Maxine Molyneux
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2002-11-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199256454

This text examines contemporary issues such as neoliberal policies, democracy and multiculturalism, analyzing them from a gender perspective. It examines how liberal rights and ideas of democracy and justice have been absorbed into the political agendas of women's movements.

Contemporary Migration to South Africa

Contemporary Migration to South Africa
Author: Aurelia Segatti
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2011-08-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0821387685

This volume examines international migration policies and practices in post-apartheid South Africa. It consides both regional and highly localised impacts, the historical experience of migration policy-making and the roots of contemporary policy dilemmas as well as the question of skilled labor.

Prohibited Persons

Prohibited Persons
Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1998
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781564321817

The Aliens Control Act

"They Have Robbed Me of My Life"

Author: Kristi Ueda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2020
Genre: Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN: 9781623138547

"[The report] details xenophobic incidents in the year after the government adopted the National Action Plan to Combat Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance."--Publisher website.

Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa

Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa
Author: Francis Musoni
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253047161

With the end of apartheid rule in South Africa and the ongoing economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the border between these Southern African countries has become one of the busiest inland ports of entry in the world. As border crossers wait for clearance, crime, violence, and illegal entries have become rampant. Francis Musoni observes that border jumping has become a way of life for many of those who live on both sides of the Limpopo River and he explores the reasons for this, including searches for better paying jobs and access to food and clothing at affordable prices. Musoni sets these actions into a framework of illegality. He considers how countries have failed to secure their borders, why passports are denied to travelers, and how border jumping has become a phenomenon with a long history, especially in Africa. Musoni emphasizes cross-border travelers' active participation in the making of this history and how clandestine mobility has presented opportunity and creative possibilities for those who are willing to take the risk.