PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, Migrants and Xenophobia, Policing, RacismDiversity and Transformation in the South African Police Service: A Study of Police Perspectives on Race, Gender and the Community in the Johannesburg Policing AreaThe transformation of the South African Police Service (SAPS) by the country’s first democratically elected government started over a decade ago, in 1994. Over a decade later, very little research has been conducted on the impact this transformation process has had on the men and women that make up the SAPS. One of the primary aims of this report, therefore,… Read More Gareth Newham, Themba Masuku and Jabu DlaminiMarch 6, 2006
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, RacismRace, Citizenship and Violence in Transitioning Societies: A Guatemalan Case StudyThe following paper focuses on race, and the nature of negotiated transitions, as well as the thin line between political and social conflict; a line which is often blurred during democratic transitions. In addition to looking at South Africa's own experience (cf. reports in the Race and Citizenship in Transition Series), the paper incorporates an in-depth examination of these same… Read More Nahla ValjiDecember 6, 2004
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, RacismArranging Prejudice: Exploring Hate Crime in Post-Apartheid South AfricaThe following report is part of a CSVR series on Race and Citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa. It grapples with the violent expression of prejudice and draws on international experiences of hate crime to investigate commonalities and differences with the South African context. It touches on social representations and public perceptions of hate crime and considers media reporting on incidents… Read More Bronwyn HarrisDecember 1, 2004
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, RacismEmpowerment Through Living Memory: A Community-Centred Model for MemorializationThe subsequent report outlines the five phases of the process that focused on a community centred approach to memorialization. This report aims to give practitioners working within the field of memorialization a detailed understanding of the process that was undertaken in the different phases of the project so as to enable practitioners and communities themselves to initiate their own memory… Read More Ereshnee NaiduDecember 1, 2004
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, Violence in TransitionCreating the Nation: The Rise of Violent Xenophobia in the New South AfricaThe standard explanation for xenephobia is that many local South Africans feel that foreigners 'steal jobs' and are 'criminals'. These elements certainly explain aspects of this trend; they are however incomplete by themselves and fail to provide a comprehensive analysis of the rapid and degenerative shift in attitudes amongst South Africans, or the racially-defined target of these attitudes. This paper… Read More Nahla ValjiNovember 1, 2003
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Migrants and Xenophobia, RacismRacism and Discrimination in the South African Penal SystemThis research report focuses on the experiences and needs of one of the most vulnerable sectors of society – prisoners. It aims to investigate the impact of past injustices on the South African penal system, as well as to look at the current functioning of the system – in particular the attitudes and actions of the Department of Correctional Services… Read More Amanda Dissel and Jody KollapenDecember 19, 2002
