Impact Of Immigration And Xenophobia On Development In Africa

Author : Mafukata, Mavhungu Abel
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799871019

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Impact of Immigration and Xenophobia on Development in Africa by Mafukata, Mavhungu Abel Pdf

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.

Author : Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha,Nene Ernest Khalema,Lovemore Chipungu,Tamuka C. Chirimambowa,Tinashe Lukas Chimedza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319592350

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Crisis, Identity and Migration in Post-Colonial Southern Africa by Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha,Nene Ernest Khalema,Lovemore Chipungu,Tamuka C. Chirimambowa,Tinashe Lukas Chimedza Pdf

This book offers a socio-historical analysis of migration and the possibilities of regional integration in Southern Africa. It examines both the historical roots of and contemporary challenges regarding the social, economic, and geo-political causes of migration and its consequences (i.e. xenophobia) to illustrate how ‘diaspora’ migrations have shaped a sense of identity, citizenry, and belonging in the region. By discussing immigration policies and processes and highlighting how the struggle for belonging is mediated by new pressures concerning economic security, social inequality, and globalist challenges, the book develops policy responses to the challenge of social and economic exclusion, as well as xenophobic violence, in Southern Africa. This timely and highly informative book will appeal to all scholars, activists, and policy-makers looking to revisit migration policies and realign them with current globalization and regional integration trends.

Author : Sabella Ogbobode Abidde,Emmanuel Kasonde Matambo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030820565

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Xenophobia, Nativism and Pan-Africanism in 21st Century Africa by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde,Emmanuel Kasonde Matambo Pdf

This edited volume systematically analyzes the connection between xenophobia, nativism, and Pan-Africanism. It situates attacks on black Africans by fellow black Africans within the context of ideals such as Pan-Africanism and Ubuntu, which emphasize unity. The book straddles a range of social science perspectives to explain why attacks on foreign nationals in Africa usually entail attacks on black foreign nationals. Written by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars, the book is divided into four sections that each explain a different facet of this complicated relationship. Section One discusses the history of colonialism and apartheid and their relationship to xenophobia. Section Two critically evaluates Pan-Africanism as a concept and as a practice in 21st century Africa. Section Three presents case studies on xenophobia in contemporary Africa. Section Four similarly discusses cases of nativism. Addressing a complex issue in contemporary African politics, this volume will be of use to students and scholars interested in African studies, African politics, human rights, migration, history, law, and development economics.

Author : Dumisani Moyo,Shepherd Mpofu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030612368

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Mediating Xenophobia in Africa by Dumisani Moyo,Shepherd Mpofu Pdf

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.

Author : Sabella Ogbobode Abidde,Brenda I. Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1498550886

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Africans and the Exiled Life by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde,Brenda I. Gill Pdf

This book contributes to the current discourse about immigration, xenophobia, globalization, and cultural exchanges. The contributors explore the varied immigration experiences of Africans from neighboring African and western countries while recognizing the social, cultural, economic, political, and institutional impacts on host countries.

Author : Emmanuel Matambo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793645326

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Interrogating Xenophobia and Nativism in Twenty-First-Century Africa by Emmanuel Matambo Pdf

Interrogating Xenophobia and Nativism in Twenty-First-Century Africa interrogates xenophobia and nativism in Africa and how they hamper the realisation of Pan-Africanism. The contributors examine migration in Africa, immigration policies and politics, and the social impacts and history of xenophobia and nativism in African life and culture. Through their analyses, the contributors explore how xenophobia and nativism have impacted the Pan-Africanism movement. The book also offers suggestions for reducing xenophobia and nativism in Africa, including bettering immigration policies and creating socioeconomic structures that would enrich the public and help prevent the pervasive belief that immigrants usurp limited opportunities for the poor in the countries they immigrate to.

Author : Jonathan Crush,Abel Chikanda
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920596170

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Mean Streets by Jonathan Crush,Abel Chikanda Pdf

This book powerfully demonstrates that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded, they take their life into their hands when they trade on South Africas mean streets. The book draws attention to what they bring to their adopted country through research into previously unexamined areas of migrant entrepreneurship. Ranging from studies of how migrants have created agglomeration economies in Jeppe and Ivory Park in Johannesburg, to guanxi networks of Chinese entrepreneurs, to competition and cooperation among Somali shop owners, to cross-border informal traders, to the informal transport operators between South Africa and Zimbabwe, the chapters in this book reveal the positive economic contributions of migrants. these include generating employment, paying rents, providing cheaper goods to poor consumers, and supporting formal sector wholesalers and retailers. As well, Mean Streets highlights the xenophobic responses to migrant and refugee entrepreneurs and the challenges they face in running a successful business on the streets.

Author : Adeoye O. Akinola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319648972

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The Political Economy of Xenophobia in Africa by Adeoye O. Akinola Pdf

This book analyzes the phenomenon of xenophobia across African countries. With its roots in colonialism, which coercively created modern states through border delineation and the artificial merging and dividing of communities, xenophobia continues to be a barrier to post-colonial sustainable peace and security and socio-economic and political development in Africa. This volume critically assesses how xenophobia has impacted the three elements of political economy: state, economy and society. Beginning with historical and theoretical analysis to put xenophobia in context, the book moves on to country-specific case studies discussing the nature of xenophobia in Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Ghana and Zimbabwe. The chapters furthermore explore both violent and non-violent manifestations of xenophobia, and analyze how state responses to xenophobia affects African states, economies, and societies, especially in those cases where xenophobia has widespread institutional support. Providing a theoretical understanding of xenophobia and proffering sustainable solutions to the proliferation of xenophobia in the continent, this book is of use to researchers and students interested in political science, African politics, peace studies, security, and development economics, as well as policy-makers working to eradicate xenophobia in Africa.

Author : Senthan Selvarajah,Nesrin Kenar,Ibrahim Seaga Shaw,Pradeep Dhakal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003838173

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Xenophobia in the Media by Senthan Selvarajah,Nesrin Kenar,Ibrahim Seaga Shaw,Pradeep Dhakal Pdf

Through its global and critical perspectives, this book brings together knowledge, ideas, and tools to understand the problems and identify effective solutions, best practices and alternative approaches to combat xenophobia in the media and build tolerance and social cohesion. Although various studies have been conducted on the extent to which the media construct xenophobic discourse against immigrants and refugees and how they represent immigrants, there exists a research lacuna as to the dynamics of the xenophobia construction in the media, the effect of xenophobic discourse of the media and its function, the nexus between xenophobia construction of the media and the social, economic and political conditions, and the impact of the xenophobic discourse of the media on immigrants and host communities. This book adds knowledge and empirical evidence to fill this research gap. This book will be an important resource for journalists, scholars and students of media and communication studies, journalism, political science, sociology, and anyone covering issues of race and racism, human rights, immigration and refugees.

Author : Kyle Farmbry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498553360

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Migration and Xenophobia by Kyle Farmbry Pdf

Migration and Xenophobia: A Three Country Exploration examines issues of migration and xenophobia using the experiences of three nations: the United States, South Africa, and Malta. Through the cases, Kyle Farmbry builds a larger dialogue examining issues related to patterns of movement and the xenophobic realities encountered with such migrations. The book builds upon projections from the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Organization for Migration that say the world will experience a continued wave of movement between people and place for the foreseeable future are true, then the lessons from the nations examined here have implications for a broader set of realities related to migration. The experiences of these nations represent a microcosm of what is happening globally in relation to nation-based questions on the migration realities of the early twenty-first century.

Author : Heribert Adam,Kogila Moodley
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781439911907

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Imagined Liberation by Heribert Adam,Kogila Moodley Pdf

On a spectrum of hostility towards migrants, South Africa ranks at the top, Germany in the middle and Canada at the bottom. South African xenophobic violence by impoverished slum dwellers is directed against fellow Africans. “Foreign” Africans are blamed for a high crime rate and most other maladies of an imagined liberation. Why would a society that liberated itself in the name of human rights turn against people who escaped human rights violations or unlivable conditions at home? What happened to the expected African solidarity? Why do former victims become victimizers? With porous borders, South Africa is incapable of upholding the blurred distinction between endangered refugees and economic migrants. Imagined Liberation asks what xenophobic societies can learn from other immigrant societies, such as Canada, that avoided the backlash against multiculturalism in Europe. Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley stress an innovative teaching of political literacy that makes citizens aware as to why they hate.

Author : Southern African Migration Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Human rights
ISBN : UOM:39015051562042

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Immigration, Xenophobia and Human Rights in South Africa by Southern African Migration Project Pdf

Author : Romola Adeola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351591683

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Development-induced Displacement and Human Rights in Africa by Romola Adeola Pdf

Within the context of the 2009 Kampala Convention, this book examines how a balance can be struck between the imperative of development projects and the rights of persons likely to be displaced in Africa. Following independence, many African states embarked on large-scale development projects such as dams, urban renewal and extraction of natural resources and have had to grapple with how to protect displaced communities while implementing development projects. These projects were considered a panacea for Africa’s development and the economic interests of the majority were often considered over and above the interests of the minority of people who were displaced by these projects .This book examines how a balance can be struck between the imperative of development and the rights of displaced persons within the context of the African Union Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (the Kampala Convention). Romola Adeola analyses the obligations that are placed on African states by the Kampala Convention in the context of development-induced displacement. This book will be of interest to scholars of human rights law, forced migration, African Studies and development.

Author : Richard Black,Jonathan Crush,Sally Peberdy,Savina Ammassari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015074247753

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Migration and Development in Africa by Richard Black,Jonathan Crush,Sally Peberdy,Savina Ammassari Pdf

The Southern Africa Migration Project (SAPM) launches its new series on migration and development. Migration has been an integral aspect of the labour markets across much of Africa for at least the last century, cutting across class and skill boundaries. It represents an important livelihood strategy for poor households, but is also characteristic of the better off, including many African elites. Understanding is slowly emerging of the potentially positive role that migration can play in reducing poverty and ?mobilising? the African diaspora in development. This first title in this series provides an overview of the complex political, economic and human development issues at stake around the migration phenomenon in the twenty-first century. It gives valuable factual and statistical data to inform debates on this contentious political topic. This publication is the product of collaboration between the Southern African Migration Project and the Centre for Globalization, Poverty and Migration at Sussex University. Subsequent editions are planned on HIV/AIDS, health, the brain-drain, and food security in Africa.

Author : OECD,International Labour Organization
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264085398

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How Immigrants Contribute to South Africa's Economy by OECD,International Labour Organization Pdf

How Immigrants Contribute to South Africa’s Economy is the result of a project carried out by the OECD Development Centre and the International Labour Organization, with support from the European Union.