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1 online resource (206 pages) |
| Contents |
African Immigrant Traders in Inner City Johannesburg; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 The Framing of African Immigrantsas the Problematic Aliens; Introduction; Interrogating the of African Immigrants; Organisation of the Book; Conclusion; References; 2 Migration Context and Contestations; Introduction; The Contestation; Theorising African Immigrantsas the Threatening Other; Deconstruction; African Immigrant Traders and Humanistic Geography; Johannesburg Inner City; Conclusion; References |
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3 Global Contexts, African Immigrants, Traders and the Johannesburg Inner City MilieuIntroduction; Global Contexts; South African Immigrations and the Case of African Immigrants; African Immigrant Traders; Urban Informality and African Immigrant Traders; Employment Creation, Revenue Generation and Support for the Formal Economy; Transnational Character of African Immigrant Traders and the Provision of Choice for Consumers; Revitalising the Decaying Johannesburg Inner City Economy; Contribution to the Achievement of South African Development Goals; Destructive and Productive Immigrant Traders |
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ConclusionReferences; 4 Historical Perspectives on Migration and the Xenophobia Discourse; Introduction; Immigration Trends: 1910-1948; Immigration Trends: 1948-1994; Immigration Trajectories After 1994; Post-1994 Immigrant Influx and Discourse; Conclusion; References; 5 African Immigrant Traders in Johannesburg Inner City; Introduction; Reasons for Migration to South Africa; Experiences of Discrimination, Hostility and Xenophobia; Xenophobia; Discrimination in the Job Market and the Decision to Trade; African Immigrant Traders in the Johannesburg Inner City; Registration Status |
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Spatial Spread and OrganisationNature and Types of African Immigrant and South African Traders' Businesses; Differences and Similarities Between African Immigrant and South African Traders; Differences Within African Immigrant Traders; Differences Within South African Traders; Link Between African Immigrant and South African Traders and SMME Economy; Link Between African Immigrant Traders and the Formal Economy; Possibilities for Development; Conclusion; References; 6 African Immigrant Traders' Contribution to Johannesburg Inner City; Introduction; Employment Creation and Taking Away Jobs |
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Contribution to the Achievement of South Africa's Development GoalsRevenue Generation and Support for theFormal Economy; Provision of Choice for Consumers; Revitalising the Johannesburg Inner City; Transnational Character of AfricanImmigrant Traders; Unproductive and Destructive Traders; Spread of Disease; Taking Over the Johannesburg InnerCity: Burden on Infrastructure; Conclusion; References; 7 Reinterpreting the Hierarchy and Finding New Perspectives; Introduction; Tracing What is not Said; Finding New Perspectives: Are African Immigrant Traders the Threatening Other? |
| Summary |
This book contests the negative portrayal of African immigrants as people who are not valuable members of South African society. They are often perceived as a threat to South Africa and its patrimony, accused of committing crime, taking jobs and competing for resources with South African citizens. Unique in its deployment of a deconstructionist theoretical and analytical framework, this work argues that this is a simplistic portrayal of a complex reality. Inocent Moyo lays bare, not only the failings of an exclusivist narrative of belonging, but also a complex social reality around migration and immigration politics, belonging and exclusion in contemporary South Africa. Over seven chapters he introduces new perspectives on the negative portrayal of African immigrants and argues that to sustain a negative view of them as the 'threatening other' ignores complex people-place-space dynamics. For these reasons, the analytical, empirical and theoretical value of the project is that it broadens the study of migration related contexts in a South African setting. Academics, students, policy makers and activists focusing on the migration and immigration debate will find this book invaluable |
| Notes |
What Remains to be Thought?: Rethinking African Immigrants, Rethinking Partnerships for Development and Inclusion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Poverty.
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Poverty
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poverty.
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Poverty
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319571447 |
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3319571443 |
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