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African Immigrant Traders in Inner City Johannesburg - Deconstructing the Threatening 'Other' (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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African Immigrant Traders in Inner City Johannesburg - Deconstructing the Threatening 'Other' (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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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.
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