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Xenophobia: The Consequences Of Being A Zimbabwean In South Africa, Philip Edward Culbertson Jan 2010

Xenophobia: The Consequences Of Being A Zimbabwean In South Africa, Philip Edward Culbertson

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This paper seeks to explain and describe the xenophobia and xenophobic attacks of Zimbabwean refugees and migrants in South Africa. The political and social instability in Zimbabwe has led to mass exodus of Zimbabweans in search of stability and a means to survive. Many of these Zimbabweans have sought opportunity and refuge in South Africa only to be met with hurdles that metastasized into xenophobia. Research was done on the target population of Zimbabweans in Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, along with interviews conducted through Medicines Sans Frontiers, and active players in the civil society in Cape Town.