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Exploring Perceptions of Xenophobia in a Sample of South African Employees
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Elzabé Coetzee --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis brief report aimed to explore the perceptions of xenophobia within a sample of South African employees. Data on participants' views regarding xenophobia, related xenophobic violence and causes were collected from 127 respondents (males=43%, females=57%, with the majority of respondents... -
African Migrants' Experiences of Xenophobic Violence in South Africa: A Relational Approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Shingairai Chigeza --- North-West University, Alda De Wet --- University of Limpopo, Vera Roos --- North-West University, Charl Vorster --- North-West University,This study explores the experiences of African migrants in relation to South African citizens in the course of xenophobic violence in South Africa. In a secondary data analysis of a larger research project, 44 migrants (both men and women with... -
Is xenophobia racism?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kenneth Tafira --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaThe outbreak of anti-immigrant violence in May 2008 in South Africa has prompted a set of theoretical questions and a reappraisal of theoretical suppositions. While the attacks have in the main pervasively been presented as xenophobia, I argue in this... -
Decency and exclusion: a symbolic interpretation of post-displacement discriminatory discourse in De Doorns, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nicola M. Hugo --- University of Stellenbosch, South AfricaFrom 14–17 November 2009 an estimated 3000 Zimbabweans were violently and forcefully displaced from their dwellings in a rural farming area, De Doorns, in the Western Cape, South Africa. This study looks into a discourse of decency to contribute, through... -
Mozambican immigrants to South Africa: Their xenophobia and discrimination experiences
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Miriam Moagi --- Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa Gail Wyatt --- Department of Psychiatry and Bio-behavioral Sciences, USA Maboe Mokgobi --- Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, South Africa Tamra Loeb --- Department of Psychiatry and Bio-behavioral Sciences, USA Muyu Zhang --- Department of Psychiatry and Bio-behavioral Sciences, USA Mashudu Davhana-Maselesele --- North-West University, South AfricaWe explored Mozambican immigrants’ lived experiences of xenophobia and discrimination in South Africa. Informants were 15 Mozambican immigrants (female = 7, male = 8) living in an informal settlement in Zandspruit, Gauteng Province. They completed open-ended written narratives on xenophobic...