PublicationsResearchInequalities, Migrants and Xenophobia, Policing, Psychosocial Support, Violence PreventionThe Smoke That Calls: Insurgent Citizenship and the Struggle for a Place in the New South AfricaThe origins of this research lay in the wave of xenophobic attacks which swept across South Africa in May 2008. The report looks at xenophobic violence and community protests together, drawing the links both empirically as one form of collective action spawns or mutates into another, and theoretically through the concept of insurgent citizenship. It combines an attempt to understand… Read More CSVR and SWOPJuly 20, 2011
ArticlesMediaMigrants and Xenophobia, Violence PreventionXenophobia: Yet Another Threat to the Power of MythsViolence in society is like a crack in a mirror. The crack distorts the image of us, and we become ambiguous. Un-unified. Like the mirror’s crack, violence destroys the fabric that unites people, thus eliminating the possibility of togetherness. South African history speaks at length of the harm that divisions cause, and when sustained with violence, the damage is often… Read More CSVRJuly 22, 2010
ArticlesMediaMigrants and Xenophobia, Transitional JusticeExclude Migrants from Transitional Justice Processes at Your Own RiskIn recent years, a number of African states – especially those emerging from conflict and periods of serious human rights violations – have adopted or proposed various mechanisms to deal with the past. Rwanda, Burundi, Togo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and Zimbabwe are some of the countries in Africa that have increasingly come under the spotlight in this… Read More CSVRJune 30, 2009
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, Transitional JusticeThe Inter-relationship between Violence, Displacement and the Transition to Stability in the Great Lakes RegionThis paper explores the relationship between violence that engenders displacement and the forms of violence that result from displacement. Focusing specifically on Africa’s Great Lakes region, the analysis seeks to point to ways in which a transition to stability can break through the cycles of violence and displacement and, in turn, generate sustainable peace both in individual countries and throughout… Read More Lucy HovilNovember 11, 2008
ArticlesMediaGender-based Violence, Migrants and XenophobiaDouble Jeopardy: Being Foreign and Female Increased Their Vulnerability During Xenophobic ViolenceBeing both foreign and female increased the vulnerability of women during the xenophobic violence in South Africa. Xenophobia targets women and children because they are central to making settlement happen. They denote a more permanent move, the laying down of roots. In the wave of xenophobic violence that swept across South Africa in the past weeks, more than 50 people… Read More CSVRJuly 20, 2008
PublicationsResearchMigrants and XenophobiaUnderstanding Current Xenophobic Attacks and How South Africa Can Move ForwardOn the 19th of May 2008 the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) convened a meeting of all Chapter 9 Institutions as well as NGO’s to discuss Civil Societies response to the xenophobic violence. During this meeting the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) was mandated by the SAHRC to coordinate the humanitarian response by CSO to… Read More CSVRJune 20, 2008
