This article examines the politics of urban refugees in South Africa. It shows that despite South Africa’s adoption of an encompassing rights-regarding legal framework that has the potential to be inclusive towards asylum seekers and refugees in the country and afford them basic human rights and protection, asylum seekers and refugees nonetheless remain “internally excluded,” predominantly as a result of practices adopted by a nationalist Department of Home Affairs to implement refugee legislation and by the UNHCR in its quest to prioritize the safeguarding of the institution of asylum. The article also shows how the adoption of these practices has been facilitated by a construction of asylum seekers and refugees as “bogus” claimants who ha...
Article is based on a paper presented at the 2013 SASA Conference.This article reports on a study th...
Urban refugees are widely viewed as anomalous—people who stand outside a refugee regime which, in Af...
This article traces the contributions of African states to the development of international refugee ...
This article critically examines the nature and scope of the type of refugee protection offered by S...
South Africa only began accepting individual applications for political asylum in 1994. A policy des...
This article analyzes several specific aspects of the current refugee legal regime in Sub-Saharan Af...
This paper examines the extent to which African States have cemented their commitments to protect pe...
This article examines the memories of a group of Cameroonian asylum-seekers in South Africa, analyzi...
South Africa has a progressive legal refugee framework and retains a national refugee reception syst...
CITATION: Kavuro, C. 2015. Refugees and asylum seekers : barriers to accessing South Africa’s labour...
Asylum seekers in South Africa experience extreme difficulties lodging their claims at the Departmen...
textabstractSouth Africa has recently been spared the long-term, large-scale refugee movements seen ...
It is widely accepted that to be naturalised one must acquire the nationality of a political or nati...
As a party to the UN Refugee Convention and the OAU Refugee Convention, South Africa is obligated to...
The advent of democracy in the country has not only seen the liberation of the oppressed South Afric...
Article is based on a paper presented at the 2013 SASA Conference.This article reports on a study th...
Urban refugees are widely viewed as anomalous—people who stand outside a refugee regime which, in Af...
This article traces the contributions of African states to the development of international refugee ...
This article critically examines the nature and scope of the type of refugee protection offered by S...
South Africa only began accepting individual applications for political asylum in 1994. A policy des...
This article analyzes several specific aspects of the current refugee legal regime in Sub-Saharan Af...
This paper examines the extent to which African States have cemented their commitments to protect pe...
This article examines the memories of a group of Cameroonian asylum-seekers in South Africa, analyzi...
South Africa has a progressive legal refugee framework and retains a national refugee reception syst...
CITATION: Kavuro, C. 2015. Refugees and asylum seekers : barriers to accessing South Africa’s labour...
Asylum seekers in South Africa experience extreme difficulties lodging their claims at the Departmen...
textabstractSouth Africa has recently been spared the long-term, large-scale refugee movements seen ...
It is widely accepted that to be naturalised one must acquire the nationality of a political or nati...
As a party to the UN Refugee Convention and the OAU Refugee Convention, South Africa is obligated to...
The advent of democracy in the country has not only seen the liberation of the oppressed South Afric...
Article is based on a paper presented at the 2013 SASA Conference.This article reports on a study th...
Urban refugees are widely viewed as anomalous—people who stand outside a refugee regime which, in Af...
This article traces the contributions of African states to the development of international refugee ...