Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town

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dc.contributor.advisorSitas, Arien_ZA
dc.contributor.authorAzari, Sepideh Alwanden_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-26T06:13:09Z
dc.date.available2014-12-26T06:13:09Z
dc.date.issued2012en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractXenophobia 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 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 social and physical spaces, African migrants have developed mutable, unsettled and vagrant identities in order to cope with everyday low level violence. This argument emerged as four key stressors have been identified as the components of a more substantial explanation of xenophobia in South Africa. The four key components are: the enforcement of identity (national and group), the demarcation of spaces of belonging, the experiences of economic insecurity, and lastly a 'culture of violence' in South Africa. This thesis argues that these four stressors are the result of an on-going active process of xenophobic attitudes.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationAzari, S. A. (2012). <i>Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10039en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationAzari, Sepideh Alwand. <i>"Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10039en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAzari, S. 2012. Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Azari, Sepideh Alwand AB - 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 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 social and physical spaces, African migrants have developed mutable, unsettled and vagrant identities in order to cope with everyday low level violence. This argument emerged as four key stressors have been identified as the components of a more substantial explanation of xenophobia in South Africa. The four key components are: the enforcement of identity (national and group), the demarcation of spaces of belonging, the experiences of economic insecurity, and lastly a 'culture of violence' in South Africa. This thesis argues that these four stressors are the result of an on-going active process of xenophobic attitudes. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town TI - Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10039 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/10039
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationAzari SA. Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology, 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10039en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Sociologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherSociologyen_ZA
dc.titleSpaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Townen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMSocScien_ZA
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