Organising Somalian, Congolese and Rwandan migrants in a time of xenophobia in South Africa: empirical and methodological reflections

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dc.contributor.authorUwimpuhwe, Denys
dc.contributor.authorRuiters, Greg
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-26T07:56:49Z
dc.date.available2018-06-26T07:56:49Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractXenophobic practices pervade civil society and the state in South Africa. But its victims are not passive. Academic scholarship has not sufficiently recognised the multiple roles of refugees and asylum seekers migrant organisations in a context where refugees are required to "self-settle”. The dominant methodological focus of existing research has been on the migrant as the individual. This paper’s main research objectives are to question this focus and examine evidence of the collective responses to struggles faced by foreign African migrants and refugee groups in Cape Town. Eleven refugee and asylum seeker associations formed by Somalians, Congolese and Rwandan asylum seekers and refugees were investigated, based on extensive interviews with 11 leaders of refugee organisations. These organisations not only strongly defend migrant interests but also project a long-term view of integration into South African society. In addition, the paper concludes by arguing for a shift in the focus of research in order to show that migrant organisations are crucial in an individual’s collective security concerns, in advocacy with government institutions and in initiatives to build relationships with South Africans.en_US
dc.identifier.citationUwimpuhwe, D. & Ruiters, G. (2018). Organising Somalian, Congolese and Rwandan migrants in a time of xenophobia in South Africa: empirical and methodological reflections. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2018.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1488-3473
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12134-018-0586-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3834
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12134-018-0586-9
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectRefugees and asylum seekersen_US
dc.subjectOrganisationsen_US
dc.subjectResearch methodologyen_US
dc.subjectIntegrationen_US
dc.subjectXenophobiaen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleOrganising Somalian, Congolese and Rwandan migrants in a time of xenophobia in South Africa: empirical and methodological reflectionsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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