Conceptualizing xenophobia as structural violence in the lives of refugee women in Gauteng, South Africa

Dahlberg, Moa; Thapar‐Björkert, Suruchi

doi:10.1080/01419870.2023.2179890

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“…The issue of women's health is often linked to the government's inability to provide accessible healthcare services for all, including pregnant mothers (Dahlberg & Thapar-Björkert, 2023). The lack of evenly distributed healthcare facilities is a long-standing issue that significantly impacts the limited access of pregnant women to necessary medical services (Zaluchu et al, 2017).…”

Section: Stunting As An Indicator Of Structural Violence By the Gover...mentioning

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Women's Welfare, Stunting, and Access to Reproductive Rights: An Overview of The Situation in Indonesia

Litaay,

Batjo

2024

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Stunting, as a global issue, has become a primary concern in Indonesia, with a declining trend in prevalence but still predominant indirect interventions for children under five years old. However, the impact of stunting on pregnant women or mothers of toddlers, who are the closest caregivers to stunted children, is often overlooked. Throughout the pregnancy and child-rearing periods, many reproductive rights of women remain unfulfilled, leading to suboptimal health conditions for both the mother and child. This research aims to describe sexual health rights, gender justice, and their relation to the stunting issue in Indonesia. The research method employed was a literature review accessing online databases, including Google Scholar, using keywords such as “stunting,” “women's rights,” “gender,” and “reproductive health rights.” Out of 700 articles identified, a reselection was conducted using the VoSViewer software to obtain literature relevant to the research theme. This article emphasizes that many health services in Indonesia are not optimal in fulfilling women's rights. Conversely, some health services are even challenging for women to access, indicating the government's negative contribution to fulfilling women's rights. Therefore, preventing stunting requires a broader and more integrative approach, including women's empowerment, reconstructing social norms regarding reproductive health, and strengthening health services that favor women. Consequently, the Indonesian government needs to intensify efforts to ensure the fulfillment of women's reproductive health rights as a strategic step in preventing stunting issues in the future.

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Section: Stunting As An Indicator Of Structural Violence By the Gover...mentioning

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Women's Welfare, Stunting, and Access to Reproductive Rights: An Overview of The Situation in Indonesia

Litaay,

Batjo

2024

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“…Thinking about domestic work through the colonial discourse of master/mistress‐slave relationship, this form of employment is disempowering and reduces blacks to human beings without any agency and/or aspirations or whose only aspirations are to serve the masters/mistresses (Archer, 2011; Bosch & Mcloed, 2015; Jinnah, 2020). By normalizing this form of employment, black South Africans find themselves competing for such employment opportunities with refugees and asylum seekers from other African countries (see Dahlberg & Thapar‐Bjorkert, 2023; Pineteh, 2017; Tewolde, 2020; Tewolde, 2023).…”

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“…The contradiction also plays out in the way the ANC‐led government has employed these cheap political tactics to garner political support in poor communities. For instance, Pineteh's (2017) analysis of the framing of African migrants in South Africa exposes how political rhetoric and media representations deceptively place migrants at the centre of social pathologies in contemporary South Africa (Also see Tewolde, 2020, 2023; Dahlberg & Thapar‐Bjorkert, 2023). On the one hand, blaming African migrants for unemployment seeks to disguise the government's failures to meaningfully transform South Africa.…”

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Being black and non‐citizen in South Africa: Intersecting race, white privilege and afrophobic violence in contemporary South Africa

Angu

2023

Sociology Compass

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Post‐apartheid South Africa is characterized by growing feelings of pain, anger and frustration amongst black communities triggered by pervasive social inequalities. This has given birth to a new form of political and social activism shaped by crude violence, vandalism, destruction, brutal killings of women and children as well as thuggery in different black communities. It has also led to an upsurge in violence particularly on Africans from other parts of the continent. In this article, I attempt to examine how racial politics and resilient white privilege intersect to trigger afrophobic violence in South Africa. I draw on existing literature on broad conceptions of race and xenophobia to make a set of assertions about racial valuations, the resilience of white supremacy and black on black violence. In the article, I argue that black South Africans' pain, anger and the performance of violence on African migrants are on one level a consequence of resilient structural racism and racial practices, which continue to marginalize, emasculate and dispossess blacks. These racial practices force black South Africans to look elsewhere to express their anger, pains and frustrations.

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“…Within its multifaceted nature, xenophobia in South Africa is also embedded within social structures and institutions such as the media and different government ministries. Research on the experiences of refugee women in accessing public institutions (Department of Home Affairs, The South African Police Service, and Public Hospitals), established that xenophobia is embedded in these government institutions in country (Dahlberg and Thapar-Björkert, 2023). In a separate study exploring portrayal of foreigners in the media, Nkala and Masuku (2023b) observed that foreigners are oftentimes portrayed in a bad light which dehumanizes them.…”

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Situating Dashed Prospects of Independence into the Xenophobic Narrative in South Africa

Yingi,

Ncube,

Benyera

2023

Journal of Black Studies

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Xenophobia in South Africa is often depicted as anti-immigrant sentiments and stereotypes that emanate from social, political, and economic misconceptions. This paper argues that though the causes of xenophobia are many and complex, they stem from the dashed hopes of independence and the legacy of apartheid. This narrative has over the years been overshadowed by the view that xenophobic attacks in South Africa are a product of hate and anti-migration. We argue that the failure of successive governments of the ANC to correct the wrongs of the apartheid past and make the economy inclusive has stoked the tensions between citizens and foreign nationals. To underscore this point, this paper undertakes a discussion on the pertinent implications of the political trajectory of xenophobia in South Africa and makes some recommendations on what can be done to reduce incidences of xenophobic attacks in the future.

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Conceptualizing xenophobia as structural violence in the lives of refugee women in Gauteng, South Africa

Cited by 4 publications

References 46 publications

Women's Welfare, Stunting, and Access to Reproductive Rights: An Overview of The Situation in Indonesia

Women's Welfare, Stunting, and Access to Reproductive Rights: An Overview of The Situation in Indonesia

Being black and non‐citizen in South Africa: Intersecting race, white privilege and afrophobic violence in contemporary South Africa

Situating Dashed Prospects of Independence into the Xenophobic Narrative in South Africa

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