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Research data: XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS
2019 A violent minority?: a quantitative analysis of those engaged in anti-immigrant violence in South Africa
Xenophobic violence poses a clear threat to South Africa, especially in light of the country???s treaty commitments to ???open borders??? fo...
2016 Xenophobia across the class divide: South African attitudes towards foreigners 2003-2012
In May 2008 anti-immigrant riots in South Africa displaced more than a hundred thousand people. Despite the media attention that the riots a...
2016 A desire for isolation?: mass public attitudes in South Africa toward immigration levels
In the last decade incidents of xenophobia in South Africa have been prevalent. Are such anti-immigration attitudes related to a desire for ...
2015 Intolerable cruelty: anti-immigrant sentiment in KwaZulu-Natal
What is the xenophobic sentiment that underlies the recent violent attacks on foreign shop-owners throughout eThekwini, resulting in several...