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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"African migrants"”.
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Impact of transaction costs on intra Southern African migrants remittances
… remittances from South Africa to other Southern African countries have been regarded as expensive compared to other main corridor of south-south remittance, and this has long been recognized as a major drain on the income of migrants and their households. Using data gathered across the SADC …
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Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town
… explored through the narrative accounts of ten African migrants in Cape Town. The lived everyday experiences of ten African migrants have brought forward the central argument of this thesis. From the data, it is evident that as a reponse to everyday pressures of prejudices and xenophobia in …
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Why do African migrants with a tertiary education do menial jobs in Cape Town?
… considers the reasons for the position of African migrants with a tertiary education in menial jobs in Cape Town. Until recently, mainstream migration literature on South Africa has tended to universalise xenophobia and to treat migrants as innocent people for their situation. To what …
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Interface: The search for legibility of urban form for African migrants in Cape Town, South Africa
… to a different country for a myriad of reasons, migrants find themselves in new contexts, new worlds sometimes completely different from the places they come from. This makes them a vulnerable proportion of society in the urban spaces they find themselves in. Further this added complexity in …
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Neither Here nor There: Exploring the Transnational Identity of West African Migrants living in South Africa
… the intricacies of transnationalism among migrants have remained fairly unexplored, with little being written specifically on the topic of intersecting identities and othering experienced by transnational migrants. In South Africa, xenophobia has been a strong issue connected to migrants, …
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An exploratory study of attitudes toward African migrants and migration among students at the University of the Western Cape
… attacks that occurred against foreign nationals (migrants) in South Africa, this study sought to explore attitudes toward migrants and immigration among a sample of students at the University of the Western Cape. Previous studies in South Africa and elsewhere have suggested that in most countries, …
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Investigating the socio-economic development impact of African migrant informal enterprises in Mandeni municipality, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
… the socio-economic development impact of African migrant informal enterprises in Mandeni Local Municipality. Its objectives are to (a) analyse the factors influencing the growth of African migrant informal enterprises in Mandeni Local Municipality, (b) examine the nature and operations of …
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The man in the room : an anthology of short stories
… written as a commentary on what life is like for African migrants living in the diaspora. This is a work of fiction. The people, events, circumstances and institutions depicted are fictitious and the product of the author's imagination. Any resemblance of any character to any actual person, …
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Building personal lives as informal migrants in South Africa : narratives of poor African informal migrants in Johannesburg
This study explores why poor African migrants remain in Johannesburg, South Africa’s harsh migration context, to build their lives, and how, in pursuit of a better future, they engage with the various forms of socioeconomic and political constraints that they experience. Popular as a destination …
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Cultural conduits: music, media, and migrant identity in South Africa
… aims to explore the complexities of how the African migrant identity in South Africa is mediated, with a particular focus on the role of newspapers and music as mediums for shaping public perceptions. By examining how African migrants are depicted in South African newspapers, the research …
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Far from home, safe from home?? An exploration into fear of crime within African refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable migrant groups living in Cape Town, South Africa
… of mass xenophobic violence directed at African migrants living in South Africa leading to the continual marginalisation of vulnerable groups such as refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. This marginalisation has in turn heightened their fear of being victims of crime …
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Migration, the family and apartheid : journeys that span geographic space, the life course and responses to political change
… indicates that, to make sense of how white South African migrants and their non-migrant kin construct their views about migration from apartheid-based South Africa, it is important to take account of apartheid-based racialization as well as prior histories of displacement and oppression. It …
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Predictors of condoms use behaviour and intentions of African migrant youth in South Africa
… control and condom use behaviour among African migrant youth. Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and Berry's model of acculturation provided the theoretical framework for the empirical investigation of the study. The current study utilized a sexually active sample (N=91) of youth …
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Beyond the Banlieue: French Postcolonial Migration & the Politics of Sub-Saharan Identity
… history of the way that three generations of African migrants have contested the “invisibility” of race and the shortcomings of state policy to forge communities and multilayered identities in the postcolonial era. Interweaving the processes of migration and acculturation, this project mines …
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Investigating African migrant informal enterprises in Umhlathuze municipality nature extent and policy response
This study investigates African migrant informal enterprises in uMhlathuze Local Municipality. The study adopted a post-positivist research paradigm which allowed for the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods. The participants were sampled using purposive and snowball techniques to get …
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The pursuit of a good life in a developing place: a human-centred study among vulnerable migrants in São Paulo-Brazil
This thesis deals with the perceptions of migrants facing vulnerability about the changes in their lives after migrating to a developing context, especially in terms of their agency, fundamental rights and cultural liberty. It emphasises the need to focus more on the impacts of migration on the …
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Reclaiming the spatial imaginary: a photovoice study of resistance to displacement in Woodstock, Cape Town
… vulnerabilities, such as women and African migrants. Such experiences uphold rather than contradict an apartheid spatial imaginary, encompassing the continuation of apartheid-era norms relating to psychological, spatial, and social elements of displacement into the present. While …
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Representation of Afrophobia Violence on X in South Africa
… individuals and cultures from Africa and the African diaspora. This represents a new form of racism in South Africa. This qualitative study examined the discursive construction of Afrophobia on X (formerly Twitter) specifically focusing on how African immigrants were represented on X, through …
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