Spatial contestation, victimisation and resistance during xenophobic violence : the experiences of Somali migrants in post-apartheid South Africa

dc.contributor.authorPineteh, Ernest A.
dc.contributor.emailpineteh.angu@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-14T06:50:04Z
dc.date.issued2018-04
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses how violence between South Africans and Somali migrants plays out in different forms of spatial contestation, victimization and resistance during xenophobic attacks. It analyses Somalis’ entrepreneurial strategies and the implications for access and appropriation of social and economic spaces around Cape Town. The article attempts to connect Somali perceptions of xenophobia and South Africans’ claims of spatial entitlement to issues of spatial control, belonging and social inclusion in South Africa. It argues that by establishing businesses in urban spaces and townships, Somali migrants have managed to establish stronger bonds and a collective identity, which give them better control over these spaces. Although their business tactics have propelled spatial contestations in which they have become easy targets during xenophobic incursions, the clustering of businesses has also created Somali‐dominated localities around Cape Town, which facilitates rapid mobilization to respond to or to resist different forms of crime and violence.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentUnit for Academic Literacyen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2019-04-01
dc.description.librarianhj2018en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14682435en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationPineteh, E.A. 2018, 'Spatial contestation, victimisation and resistance during xenophobic violence: the experiences of Somali migrants in post-apartheid South Africa', International Migration, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 133-145.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0020-7985 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1468-2435 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1111/imig.12417
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/65143
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherWileyen_ZA
dc.rights© 2018 The Authors. International Migration © 2018 IOM. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article : 'Spatial contestation, victimisation and resistance during xenophobic violence: the experiences of Somali migrants in post-apartheid South Africa', International Migration, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 133-145, 2018, doi : 10.1111/imig.12417. The definite version is available at : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14682435.en_ZA
dc.subjectSomali migrantsen_ZA
dc.subjectXenophobiaen_ZA
dc.subjectPost-apartheid South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectMigrantsen_ZA
dc.subjectPerceptionen_ZA
dc.subjectSocial inclusionen_ZA
dc.subjectSpatial analysisen_ZA
dc.subjectViolenceen_ZA
dc.titleSpatial contestation, victimisation and resistance during xenophobic violence : the experiences of Somali migrants in post-apartheid South Africaen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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