African Immigration to South Africa: Francophone Migration of the 1990s

by Antoine Bouillon and Alan Morris

Often designated as 'illegal' immigrants, an African person who cannot speak an indigenous language is clearly foreign, a threat and thus a potential target for abuse. Such stereotyping helps create and reinforce a xenophobic climate. The papers in this book explore and attempt to understand the nature of the phenomenon. The disintegration of apartheid in the 1990s was accompanied by the scrapping of the whites-only immigration policy and thousands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1919825339
• ISBN13: 9781919825335
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Protea Boekhuis
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"