Criminality or monopoly? Informal immigration enforcement in South Africa
SOURCE: Journal of Southern African Studies
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2010
TITLE AUTHOR(S): D.Vigneswaran, T.Araia, C.Hoag, X.Tshabalala
KEYWORDS: CRIME AND SECURITY, IMMIGRATION, MIGRATION, MIGRATION CONTROL, ZIMBABWE
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6656
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3959
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3959
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2010
TITLE AUTHOR(S): D.Vigneswaran, T.Araia, C.Hoag, X.Tshabalala
KEYWORDS: CRIME AND SECURITY, IMMIGRATION, MIGRATION, MIGRATION CONTROL, ZIMBABWE
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6656
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3959
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3959
If you would like to obtain a copy of this Research Output, please contact Hanlie Baudin at researchoutputs@hsrc.ac.za.
Abstract
Zimbabwean displacement has significant implications for the evolution of state forms in Southern Africa. In South Africa, Zimbabwean migrants' claims to residence confront exclusionary immigration laws. The South African government officials who are responsible for enforcing these laws have helped migrants to circumvent protocols and procedures while simultaneously overstepping the bounds of their authority to prevent migrants from entering the nations borders and residing within. Drawing upon a range of ethnographic and survey data, this study explores these two tendencies in government efforts to tackle smuggling across the Zimbabwean border, limit access to immigration permits and police undocumented residence in the city of Johannesburg. The article suggests that these seemingly contradictory developments corrupt circumvention and overzealous enforcement are both products of a single dynamic: the states monopolisation of legitimate movement. The 'state' is not being captured but is helping to generate parallel and informal orders alongside conventional immigration law.-
Related Research Outputs:
- Migration and employment
- Causes of cross-border migration between South Africa and respectively Mozambique and Zimbabwe
- Keep out! protectionism, migration control, and globalization
- Migration in South and southern Africa: dynamics and determinants
- What are Africa's issues in migration policy?: contributions from the African migration internal workshop 2005
- What are Africa's issues in migration policy?: contributions from the African migration internal workshop 2005
- What are Africa's issues in migration policy?: contributions from the African migration internal workshop 2005
- Migration and remittances in SA: preliminary findings
- Historical and contemporary dimensions of migration between South Africa and its neighbouring countries
- Where have the poor been going in South Africa?: key migration streams and their implications from rural and urban viewpoints
- An unlikely success: South Africa and Lesotho's election of 2002
- The importance and implications of historical factors causing and inhibiting past migration in South Africa
- The recent HSRC migration survey: data generated, methodological details and some highlights from previous research
- Migration data from South African censuses: evaluation and suggestions
- The impact of spatial development initiatives on recent/past migration in South Africa
- The things they have made will live forever: the Estelle Hamilton-Welsh collection in the F.S. Malan museum, University of Fort Hare
- Post-cold war Zimbabwe's foreign policy and foreign policy-making process
- Methodological issues relating to household and migration surveys
- The spatial behaviour of criminal substance users (transparencies)
- Deracialisation & migration of learners in South African schools