Exploiting COVID-19 to spread hatred and fear: South Africa is vulnerable
SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): S.Gordon
KEYWORDS: COVID-19, IMMIGRANTS, XENOPHOBIA
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/hsrc-review-covid19-april-2020/exploitng-covid19-to-spread-hatred
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11358
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15359
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15359
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): S.Gordon
KEYWORDS: COVID-19, IMMIGRANTS, XENOPHOBIA
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/hsrc-review-covid19-april-2020/exploitng-covid19-to-spread-hatred
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11358
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15359
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15359
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Abstract
In the past, foreign nationals coming into South Africa have been labelled as carriers of disease and other maladies that threaten the health of the population. There is a danger that the COVID-19 pandemic could result in an upsurge in such aggressive anti-immigrant sentiments, as has been observed elsewhere in the world.-
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