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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"Xenophobia"”.
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Face-work and identities in a discussion about xenophobia
… aims to investigate how, in a discussion about xenophobia, a selection of UWC students perform face-work and negotiate or construct their identities as well as those of their coparticipants and position themselves in relation to each other. I was interested in exploring how the participants, who …
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Face-work and identities in a discussion about xenophobia
… aims to investigate how, in a discussion about xenophobia, a selection of UWC students perform face-work and negotiate or construct their identities as well as those of their coparticipants and position themselves in relation to each other. I was interested in exploring how the participants, who …
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Producing Ambiguous Threats: The Xenos and Xenophobia in Postcolonial France
… as threats, this research reworks the notion of xenophobia away from its traditional meaning to analyse practices of subjectification that have emerged beside the traditional binary, dominating Western differentiation (e.g., French/stranger). To that end, it resorts to a Foucaultian archaeology …
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Contesting 'xenophobia' through civic education: explorations with ARESTA in Khayelitsha
… makes a significant contribution in opposing xenophobia, in the light of what is possible in South Africa today. However, its work is ameliorative rather than radical structural change, what may be needed is far more elusive at present.
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Exclusion and Xenophobia: Norwegian society's influences on Anders Behring Breivik's counter-jihadism
<p>On July 22<sup>nd</sup> 2011 Norway was shocked by the first terrorist attacks on Norwegian soil since the German occupation during World War II. As Norway is internationally renowned as a peaceful and idyllic society the terrorist attacks, questions of why the attacks took place in Norway …
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Don Cherry's Final Rant: Illuminating Canadian nationalism, racial xenophobia, and hegemonic masculinity
… the continuing salience of white supremacy, xenophobia, hegemonic masculinity and colonialism in Canadian sports discourse? Drawing on the fields of feminist, anti-colonial and anti-racist studies, and literature in sport studies I conducted a critical discourse analysis of comments on …
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An assessment of the effects of xenophobia on social integration in Isiphingo, KwaZulu-Natal province
… in Isiphingo, the study assessed the effects of xenophobia on Social Integration in the society (Isiphingo). Prior to 2008 much publicized xenophobic violence it is a fact that Black foreign nationals are often attacked compared to other nationals. The study examined the role played by the South …
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"Speaking with one voice": the Somali Retailers' Association - rights and xenophobia in Cape Town's townships
… this Association helps to mitigate the impact of xenophobia on the lives of its members.
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Between a Rock and a hard Place Exploring Xenophobia and Voluntary Refugee Repatriation in South Africa
… This study aims to explore the relation between xenophobia and voluntary refugee repatriation in a South African context. The fear of xenophobic violence that was expressed by the 2019 protesters raises doubt about South Africa's ability to meet the UNHCR's standards of refugee protection. At the …
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An investigation of the experiences and meaning of xenophobia at the University of Zululand by international students
… and the evidence from literature the meaning of xenophobia given by non-national students entail a attitude, dislike, fear, difference, exclusion, maltreatment or ill-treatment and being unappreciated. Most of the literature reviewed concurred with the definition of xenophobia given by the …
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The influence of xenophobia on the social and psychological wellbeing of black non-South Africans in South Africa.
… rural and urban areas which were hardest hit by xenophobia in the past two to three years. It comprised of 22 males and 47 females. Aims: The study investigated the influences of xenophobia on social and psychological wellbeing of black non-South Africans in South Africa. The aim of the study was …
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Invisible labour: the role of institutionalised xenophobia in shaping the experiences of migrant domestic workers in South Africa
Xenophobia remains a persistent issue in South Africa, shaping the country's transition from apartheid to democracy and continuing to marginalise migrant workers, particularly in the domestic labour sector. Migrant domestic workers, many of whom come from neighbouring African countries, face …
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Invisible labour: the role of institutionalised Xenophobia in shaping the experiences of migrant domestic workers in South Africa
Background: Physiotherapy remains a female dominated profession, yet in certain professional spheres female physiotherapists are underrepresented. This is particularly evident in men's professional sport. Despite efforts to promote inclusivity and diversity in various professional men's sports, …
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Asian and Asian American music therapists’ experiences with racism, discrimination, xenophobia, and microaggressions: A convergent parallel mixed methods study
… experiences of racism, discrimination, xenophobia, and microaggressions Asian and Asian American music therapists may experience in the field. A total of 25 participants completed the survey and five participants completed the interview. Respondents from the survey noted experiencing …
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Fear, dislike and hate : what constitutes xenophobia? : (an analysis of violence against foreigners in De Doorns, South Africa November, 2009)
… South Africa. By examining the root of the term 'xenophobia' it is possible to show how the term has evolved to mean something entirely different in the present day. De Doorns, a small farming town in the Western Cape of South Africa is used as a case study, showing how the xenophobic violence …
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"We'd go home if we could" : political xenophobia, citizenship and human rights of asylum seekers and refugees : Cape Town - a pilot study
… Constitution and the recurrence of political xenophobia. More specifically the thesis investigates their respective conceptions of (human/constitutional/legal) rights, citizenship and political xenophobia. The findings suggest that although the respondents hold the Constitution in high esteem …
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Urban Informality, Environmental Xenophobia, and Infrastructures of Citizenship: The Political Lives of Nicaraguan Migrants in the Informal Settlement of La Carpio, Costa Rica
… of migrant bodies and spaces through racism and xenophobia has played an important role in the production of Costa Rica’s uneven urban geography of waste. Yet, these waste infrastructures have also become a political tool for La Carpio residents as they now have the power to stop the flow of …
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Critical theory, adult learning and‘xenophobia’: a critical perspective on Umoja wa Afrika’s human rights peer education programme
… responses. These include the emergence of ‘xenophobia’ in the terrain of discrimination and the subsequent development of popular educational responses to this. As part of popular educational responses, adult education programmes have assumed an important role in changing people’s attitudes. …
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Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town
Xenophobia in South Africa is so overt that it has take a covert form. The 'xenocide' events that took place in 2008 were called xenophobic acts. It is the recurrent denialism of xenophobia on an everyday basis that this project has explored through the narrative accounts of ten African migrants in …
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Why do African migrants with a tertiary education do menial jobs in Cape Town?
… on South Africa has tended to universalise xenophobia and to treat migrants as innocent people for their situation. To what extent does xenophobia explain the position of skilled migrants in menial work in Cape Town bearing in mind that i) South Africa suffers a shortage of skills needed to …
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