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African Immigrant Traders in Inner City Johannesburg

Deconstructing the Threatening ‘Other’

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Inocent Moyo

    1. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, South Africa

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  • Introduces the historical and contemporary processes of migration and immigration that tend to result in negative perceptions of immigrants

  • Provides a profile of African immigrant traders in urban Johannesburg, by showing that the majority came to South Africa for economic reasons

  • Highlights the complex nature of the issue of the threatening other as it relates to African immigrants

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Framing of African Immigrants as the Problematic Aliens

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    Pages 1-12

  3. Migration Context and Contestations

    • Inocent Moyo
    Pages 13-39

  4. Global Contexts, African Immigrants, Traders and the Johannesburg Inner City Milieu

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    Pages 41-71

  5. Historical Perspectives on Migration and the Xenophobia Discourse

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    Pages 73-95

  6. African Immigrant Traders in Johannesburg Inner City

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    Pages 97-119

  7. African Immigrant Traders’ Contribution to Johannesburg Inner City

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    Pages 121-158

  8. Reinterpreting the Hierarchy and Finding New Perspectives

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    Pages 159-182

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 183-196
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, South Africa

    Inocent Moyo

About the author

Dr Inocent Moyo is a lecturer for the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Zululand, South Africa.

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