'Please go home and build Africa': Criminalising immigrants in South Africa

T Alfaro-Velcamp, M Shaw - Journal of Southern African Studies, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In April 2015, a Whatsapp text message instructed millions of African immigrants in South
Africa to go home. The message drew on xenophobia and afrophobia to criminalise African …

“Don't send your sick here to be treated, our own people need it more”: immigrants' access to healthcare in South Africa

T Alfaro-Velcamp - International Journal of Migration, Health and …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose Asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants' access to healthcare vary in South
Africa and Cape Town due to unclear legal status. The purpose of this paper is to shed light …

Comparison of four different livelihood programmes for urban refugee women in Durban, South Africa: Insights from the capability approach

L Van Raemdonck - Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2019 - Springer
The study presents a comparison of four different livelihood programmes for refugee women,
offered by Refugee Social Services, a Durban-based non-governmental organisation. These …

Increasing access to education for refugees in Uganda

M Mugerwa-Sekawabe - Law, Democracy & Development, 2022 - ajol.info
This article investigates the scope of the right to education as enjoyed by refugees in terms
of domestic (Ugandan), regional (African) and international law. One of the main obstacles …

A fourth transformation of democracy? Liquid democracy, supra-national democracy and the fate of participation

P Dingeldey - Law, Democracy & Development, 2019 - ajol.info
Liquid democracy is defined as a cyber democracy that combines representative democracy
and spontaneous direct democracy by using technologies of the web 2.0. In recent years …

The right to education of asylum seeker and refugee children

SK Mweni - 2018 - open.uct.ac.za
This research reviews the application of the law on the right of refugee children to education
and the challenges inhibiting this right. Radical changes in the legal framework protecting …

An exploratory study of the experiences of refugees receiving assistance from Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs) in the City of Cape Town Metropolitean Area

K Ngwara - 2020 - open.uct.ac.za
The plight of refugees has become a global social problem due to continuous political
unrest, war and natural disasters worldwide. People are forced to migrate to other countries …

Has South Africa committed in good faith to article 34 of the UN Refugee Convention, which calls for the naturalisation of refugees?

F Khan - Law, Democracy & Development, 2019 - ajol.info
It is widely accepted that to be naturalised one must acquire the nationality of a political or
national community, and that such a status is accompanied by various rights. It is also widely …

[PDF][PDF] Foreign children in care in the Western Cape Province

J Sloth-Nielsen, M Ackermann - Cape Town, Scalabrini …, 2015 - citizenshiprightsafrica.org
Life in South Africa is centered around identification documentation and a person's ability to
exercise basic Constitutional rights depends invariably on his or her documentation status …

[KÖNYV][B] The experiences of refugee women who were exposed to sexual violence

GT Matetoane - 2019 - search.proquest.com
The researcher observed in practice that little has been researched regarding the effects of
sexual violence on refugee women. This may denote that these women are not receiving …