Subjectivities of survival: Conceptualising just responses to displacement, cross-border migration and structural violence in South Africa
This article considers the implications for social work of displacement, migration and structural violence in urban South Africa. To this end, I explore the life stories of five cross-border migrants. I find that all five form part of South Africa's larger pool of surplus populations but face additional, citizenship-based forms of exclusion. Even though generally self-reliant, all of them experienced cumulative agency constraints and felt vulnerable. Against this background, I propose that current, refugee-centred services should be expanded and that interventions should be carefully balanced to attend to structural issues, inter-group conflict and the range of vulnerabilities articulated by cross-border migrants.
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Main Author: | Hölscher,Dorothee |
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Format: | Digital revista |
Language: | English |
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Department of Social Work, Stellenbosch University/ Universiteit Stellenbosch
2016
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-80542016000100004 |
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