A I Tewolde
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 42538 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A I Tewolde |
| NOMBRES | A I |
| APELLIDO | Tewolde |
| FIRMA | TEWOLDE A I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9769-654X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Societal Marginalization of Potters in Hossana, Ethiopia
Scholarship on the marginalization of minorities in Ethiopia has documented the multifaceted ways craft workers experience societal marginalization. However, scant literature exists about the multifarious and complex ways potters 1 in Hossana town, Ethiopia, experience societal marginalization in their everyday encounters with the mainstream society (the Hadiya). This article explores the ways in which potters in Hossana encounter multiple forms …
Migration research and insider/outsider positionalities
A Theory of Drug Use and Gangsterism
There is extensive scholarly work on drug problems and drug-related gangsterism on historically disadvantaged racial or ethnic groups globally. Researchers have also examined drug problems and gangsterism among disadvantaged communities in South Africa, but not much scholarship exists that develop analytical concepts to frame drug problems and gangsterism as a structural rather than cultural phenomena. Drawing on data from interviews with Coloure…
‘Coloured in South Africa, Black in the United States’
Scholarly conversations on immigration and racial classifications suggest that how migrants get racially classified by host societies reflects historical, socio-cultural, demographic and political peculiarities of the receiving countries. How migrants are racially categorized, for example, differs between the US, South Africa and Brazil. This paper builds these theoretical and empirical debates and conversations by making comparisons on how I am …
Towards unraveling insider/outsider binary
Dominant theoretical debates on researcher positionalities are framed in terms of mutually exclusive insider/outsider binary where insider researchers are assumed to share social identities such as nationality or ethnicity with research participants, while outsider researchers are viewed as those who do not share such social identities with participants. Drawing on my fieldwork as a migrant researcher with Coloured South Africans, this paper cont…
Self-identification in post-Apartheid South Africa
Researchers have extensively studied self-identification among Coloured people in different places in post-Apartheid South Africa and finding varied self-identification patterns. Little is known about how Coloured people in Westbury, described as a Coloured area, in Johannesburg, self-identify in the post-Apartheid context. The aim of this paper is to explore how Coloured people in Westbury self-identify. This paper forms part of a larger study t…
Racial discrimination in post-Apartheid South Africa? The stories of Coloured people in Johannesburg, South Africa
Dominant theoretical conversations on experiences of racial discrimination are focused on how Black and other non-White people perceive and experience racial discrimination in White majority racial systems; however, research is scant on experiences of racial discrimination of racial minorities in Black majority social systems. This paper addresses this lacuna by exploring perceived experiences of racial discrimination of Coloured people in Johann…
Experiencing Negative Racial Stereotyping
Scholars examining racial stereotyping and prejudice in racially organised social systems have largely focused on how non-White ethnic and racial groups experience racial stereotyping in White-majority national contexts such as the US, Australia and European countries. There is only scant scholarship on experiences of ethno-racial communities in Black-majority countries such as South Africa, a country where Whites are a minority. Even though ther…
Typologies for Insider/Outsider Positionalities of Migrant Researchers
Regarding debates over researcher insider/outsider positionalities in the field of migration studies, many scholars have proposed various explanations. Some scholars studying migrant populations note that migrant scholars who share identities such as nationality, language, religion, race, ethnicity etc. with their study participants are usually perceived as insiders. Other scholars, however, contend that dynamics of insider/outsider positionaliti…
Asserting an Eritrean identity in the face of imposed racialisation
Current literature on Eritrean national identity has been dominated by debates on its function as a unifying and homogenising civic identity in a context of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-clan national context. Little is known, however, about how an Eritrean national identity is mobilised among Eritreans living in racially organised host societies. This paper addresses this lacuna by examining how Eritrean refugees living in a racially…
Re-Conceptualizing Insider/Outsider Positionalities in Migration Research as ‘Liquid Positionalities’
Dominant theoretical discussions on insider/outsider, co-ethnic/co-national migrant researcher positionalities have focused on the ideas of group identities such as nationality and ethnicity and how they shape and inform insider/outsider researchers’ positionalities. While some migration researchers argue that shared nationality and ethnicity make co-national or co-ethnic researchers insiders, others contend that the insiderness/outsiderness of c…
Living Insider Positionality with Co-ethnics in Everyday Life
In this article I reflect on how I was perceived by members of my own ethnic community in Pretoria, South Africa, in everyday interactions. In these interactions, I was viewed as an integral part of the community, rather than a detached academic. I employ the theory of community researcher and the theory of the everyday to frame my experiences and my argument. Recent debates on insider/outsider positionalities conceptualize co-ethnic migrant rese…
The Merged Researcher’ and ‘Emergent Subjectivity’
Qualitative migration researchers argue that reflexivity is an essential and integral component of qualitative studies involving particularly co-national/co-ethnic researchers conducting research on their co-national11 The term ‘co-national’ refers to researchers and research informants sharing a common nationality while the term co-ethnic refers to researchers and research informants sharing a common ethnic identity./co-ethnic research informant…
Structural forces shape xenophobia in South Africa
In examining xenophobia in South Africa, scholars have advanced various theoretical explanations to make sense of its causes and nature. Within this paper, I focus on the ways in which multiple structural arrangements create conditions for the manifestation of xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa. By drawing on Louis Althusser's notion of 'interpellation' and Judith Butler's concept of 'the subject,' I disconnect xenophobia in South Africa f…
Problematic Insiderness in Migration Research
Becoming Black’
Little is known about racial identity claims of African migrants living in Israel who originate from countries where race is not a dominant identity marker. This article examines how Eritrean migrants, coming from a country where race-based social organisation is not prevalent, strategically adopted ‘Black’ as their identity marker in Israel. Online newspaper reports and conversational interviews with four Eritrean migrants were used as sources o…
Migrating into segregated majority-black inner cities
My race is Habesha
Scholars studying race and racial classification in post-apartheid South Africa have paid little attention to how African refugees navigate the South African racial classification scheme and how they self-identity in the face of their everyday encounters with imposed racial classification in South Africa. This paper addresses this research gap by exploring how first-generation Eritrean refugees self-identify in the context of an imposed South Afr…
Passing' as Black South African
More recently there is a growing research on passing tactics employed by Southern African migrants in the context of xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa; however, little is known about what tactics non-Southern African migrants from other African countries utilize to make themselves invisible in the face of anti-foreigner attitudes in post-apartheid South Africa. I address this research void by reporting on the ways in which three Eritrean …
Immigration and the (Ir)relevance of the South African Racial Classification System
Xenophilia in a Multi-cultural Urban Neighborhood of Pretoria, South Africa
Reframing Xenophobia in South Africa as Colour-Blind
Many scholars and South African politicians characterize the widespread anti-foreigner sentiment and violence in South Africa as dislike against migrants and refugees of African origin which they named ‘Afro-phobia’. Drawing on online newspaper reports and academic sources, this paper rejects the Afro-phobia thesis and argues that other non-African migrants such as Asians (Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis and Chinese) are also on the receiving e…
First‐Generation Refugees’ Rejection of Racial Self‐Identification in South Africa
Although racial classification in South Africa has been extensively studied by scholars, little is known about the extent to which post‐apartheid refugees or immigrants reject the South African racial classification system. In particular, there is scant research on Eritrean refugees’ self‐identification patterns within the racially structured South African host society. The current study addresses this lacuna by exploring how first‐generation Eri…
Racial Classification Is Meaningless”
Objective The article's objective is to explore how Eritrean refugees self‐identified in the face of racial classification in South Africa. Methods A qualitative approach and one‐on‐one interviews were conducted with participants. Results As part of a larger study that resulted in diverse themes, this article discusses Eritrean refugees who interpreted the South African racial classification system as meaningless. Conclusion The rejection of the …
Am I Black, am I Coloured, am I Indian? An autoethnographic account of a refugee’s everyday encounters with ascribed racialisation in South Africa
Much of academic debate about race in South Africa has focused on South African citizens. An overlooked phenomenon in the field is how non-South African, such as refugees, experience racial ascription by South Africans in everyday life. I address this knowledge gap by reflecting on my own everyday experiences of racial assignation, as an Eritrean refugee who originates from a society whose other and self-identification habits are based on non-rac…
My race is Habesha
Scholars studying race and racial classification in post-apartheid South Africa have paid little attention to how African refugees navigate the South African racial classification scheme and how they self-identity in the face of their everyday encounters with imposed racial classification in South Africa. This paper addresses this research gap by exploring how first-generation Eritrean refugees self-identify in the context of an imposed South Afr…
Assumed to Have a Race
Scholars studying racialization processes in South Africa have largely focused on South African nationals. There is limited literature on the everyday experiences of non-South African communities with racial ascription in post-apartheid South Africa. I address this overlooked phenomenon by interviewing how first-generation Eritrean asylum seekers and refugees in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town experienced racial ascription in their everyday in…
Passing' as Black South African
More recently there is a growing research on passing tactics employed by Southern African migrants in the context of xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa; however, little is known about what tactics non-Southern African migrants from other African countries utilize to make themselves invisible in the face of anti-foreigner attitudes in post-apartheid South Africa. I address this research void by reporting on the ways in which three Eritrean …
Experiencing Negative Racial Stereotyping
Scholars examining racial stereotyping and prejudice in racially organised social systems have largely focused on how non-White ethnic and racial groups experience racial stereotyping in White-majority national contexts such as the US, Australia and European countries. There is only scant scholarship on experiences of ethno-racial communities in Black-majority countries such as South Africa, a country where Whites are a minority. Even though ther…
Typologies for Insider/Outsider Positionalities of Migrant Researchers
Regarding debates over researcher insider/outsider positionalities in the field of migration studies, many scholars have proposed various explanations. Some scholars studying migrant populations note that migrant scholars who share identities such as nationality, language, religion, race, ethnicity etc. with their study participants are usually perceived as insiders. Other scholars, however, contend that dynamics of insider/outsider positionaliti…
Structural forces shape xenophobia in South Africa
In examining xenophobia in South Africa, scholars have advanced various theoretical explanations to make sense of its causes and nature. Within this paper, I focus on the ways in which multiple structural arrangements create conditions for the manifestation of xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa. By drawing on Louis Althusser's notion of 'interpellation' and Judith Butler's concept of 'the subject,' I disconnect xenophobia in South Africa f…
Immigration and the (Ir)relevance of the South African Racial Classification System
Embracing colouredness in Cape Town
Sociologists of 'race' studying 'coloured' racial identity in South Africa have exclusively focused on its socio-historical invention throughout the colonial and apartheid eras and its continuity in post-apartheid South Africa as it relates to South African nationals. What has been missing in the literature, however, is how coloured identity is being navigated by foreign-born non-South African nationals in post-apartheid South Africa, such as ref…
How Eritreans in South Africa Talk about Their Refugee Experiences
This article reports on a study that explored how Eritrean refugees in South Africa – part of a generational wave of emigrants labelled the “generation asylum” by Hepner (2015) – make sense of their refugee experience and identities, herewith referred to as interpretative repertoires. Interpretative repertoires is a concept coined by sociologists, Gilbert and Mulkay (1984) and later adopted by Potter and Wetherell (1987), to refer to the differen…
Navigating Black Identity
Scholars studying race in post-apartheid South Africa have largely focused on South African nationals. Little is known about the ways in which non-South African migrants and refugees navigate the South African racial classification system. In the context of continued immigration to South Africa, it is important to examine how refugees negotiate South African racial categories. This paper addresses this gap by interviewing Eritrean refugees and as…
Everyday discourses of belonging of first-generation Eritrean refugees in South Africa
Research is scant on the everyday sense of belonging of refugees in South Africa. This paper addresses this gap by exploring the everyday discourses of belonging of Eritrean refugees in South Africa. Purposive sampling technique was used to recruit participants, and qualitative data was gathered from 11 participants in the City of Tshwane, South Africa, through open-ended interviews and focus group discussions. Analysis of data resulted in three …
Embracing colouredness in Cape Town
Sociologists of 'race' studying 'coloured' racial identity in South Africa have exclusively focused on its socio-historical invention throughout the colonial and apartheid eras and its continuity in post-apartheid South Africa as it relates to South African nationals. What has been missing in the literature, however, is how coloured identity is being navigated by foreign-born non-South African nationals in post-apartheid South Africa, such as ref…
Reframing Xenophobia in South Africa as Colour-Blind
Many scholars and South African politicians characterize the widespread anti-foreigner sentiment and violence in South Africa as dislike against migrants and refugees of African origin which they named ‘Afro-phobia’. Drawing on online newspaper reports and academic sources, this paper rejects the Afro-phobia thesis and argues that other non-African migrants such as Asians (Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis and Chinese) are also on the receiving e…
First‐Generation Refugees’ Rejection of Racial Self‐Identification in South Africa
Although racial classification in South Africa has been extensively studied by scholars, little is known about the extent to which post‐apartheid refugees or immigrants reject the South African racial classification system. In particular, there is scant research on Eritrean refugees’ self‐identification patterns within the racially structured South African host society. The current study addresses this lacuna by exploring how first‐generation Eri…
Racial Classification Is Meaningless”
Objective The article's objective is to explore how Eritrean refugees self‐identified in the face of racial classification in South Africa. Methods A qualitative approach and one‐on‐one interviews were conducted with participants. Results As part of a larger study that resulted in diverse themes, this article discusses Eritrean refugees who interpreted the South African racial classification system as meaningless. Conclusion The rejection of the …
Am I Black, am I Coloured, am I Indian? An autoethnographic account of a refugee’s everyday encounters with ascribed racialisation in South Africa
Much of academic debate about race in South Africa has focused on South African citizens. An overlooked phenomenon in the field is how non-South African, such as refugees, experience racial ascription by South Africans in everyday life. I address this knowledge gap by reflecting on my own everyday experiences of racial assignation, as an Eritrean refugee who originates from a society whose other and self-identification habits are based on non-rac…
Assumed to Have a Race
Scholars studying racialization processes in South Africa have largely focused on South African nationals. There is limited literature on the everyday experiences of non-South African communities with racial ascription in post-apartheid South Africa. I address this overlooked phenomenon by interviewing how first-generation Eritrean asylum seekers and refugees in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town experienced racial ascription in their everyday in…
Problematic Insiderness in Migration Research
Becoming Black’
Little is known about racial identity claims of African migrants living in Israel who originate from countries where race is not a dominant identity marker. This article examines how Eritrean migrants, coming from a country where race-based social organisation is not prevalent, strategically adopted ‘Black’ as their identity marker in Israel. Online newspaper reports and conversational interviews with four Eritrean migrants were used as sources o…
Migrating into segregated majority-black inner cities
My race is Habesha
Scholars studying race and racial classification in post-apartheid South Africa have paid little attention to how African refugees navigate the South African racial classification scheme and how they self-identity in the face of their everyday encounters with imposed racial classification in South Africa. This paper addresses this research gap by exploring how first-generation Eritrean refugees self-identify in the context of an imposed South Afr…
Passing' as Black South African
More recently there is a growing research on passing tactics employed by Southern African migrants in the context of xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa; however, little is known about what tactics non-Southern African migrants from other African countries utilize to make themselves invisible in the face of anti-foreigner attitudes in post-apartheid South Africa. I address this research void by reporting on the ways in which three Eritrean …
Immigration and the (Ir)relevance of the South African Racial Classification System
Xenophilia in a Multi-cultural Urban Neighborhood of Pretoria, South Africa
Asserting an Eritrean identity in the face of imposed racialisation
Current literature on Eritrean national identity has been dominated by debates on its function as a unifying and homogenising civic identity in a context of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-clan national context. Little is known, however, about how an Eritrean national identity is mobilised among Eritreans living in racially organised host societies. This paper addresses this lacuna by examining how Eritrean refugees living in a racially…
Re-Conceptualizing Insider/Outsider Positionalities in Migration Research as ‘Liquid Positionalities’
Dominant theoretical discussions on insider/outsider, co-ethnic/co-national migrant researcher positionalities have focused on the ideas of group identities such as nationality and ethnicity and how they shape and inform insider/outsider researchers’ positionalities. While some migration researchers argue that shared nationality and ethnicity make co-national or co-ethnic researchers insiders, others contend that the insiderness/outsiderness of c…
Living Insider Positionality with Co-ethnics in Everyday Life
In this article I reflect on how I was perceived by members of my own ethnic community in Pretoria, South Africa, in everyday interactions. In these interactions, I was viewed as an integral part of the community, rather than a detached academic. I employ the theory of community researcher and the theory of the everyday to frame my experiences and my argument. Recent debates on insider/outsider positionalities conceptualize co-ethnic migrant rese…
The Merged Researcher’ and ‘Emergent Subjectivity’
Qualitative migration researchers argue that reflexivity is an essential and integral component of qualitative studies involving particularly co-national/co-ethnic researchers conducting research on their co-national11 The term ‘co-national’ refers to researchers and research informants sharing a common nationality while the term co-ethnic refers to researchers and research informants sharing a common ethnic identity./co-ethnic research informant…
Structural forces shape xenophobia in South Africa
In examining xenophobia in South Africa, scholars have advanced various theoretical explanations to make sense of its causes and nature. Within this paper, I focus on the ways in which multiple structural arrangements create conditions for the manifestation of xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa. By drawing on Louis Althusser's notion of 'interpellation' and Judith Butler's concept of 'the subject,' I disconnect xenophobia in South Africa f…
‘Coloured in South Africa, Black in the United States’
Scholarly conversations on immigration and racial classifications suggest that how migrants get racially classified by host societies reflects historical, socio-cultural, demographic and political peculiarities of the receiving countries. How migrants are racially categorized, for example, differs between the US, South Africa and Brazil. This paper builds these theoretical and empirical debates and conversations by making comparisons on how I am …
Towards unraveling insider/outsider binary
Dominant theoretical debates on researcher positionalities are framed in terms of mutually exclusive insider/outsider binary where insider researchers are assumed to share social identities such as nationality or ethnicity with research participants, while outsider researchers are viewed as those who do not share such social identities with participants. Drawing on my fieldwork as a migrant researcher with Coloured South Africans, this paper cont…
Self-identification in post-Apartheid South Africa
Researchers have extensively studied self-identification among Coloured people in different places in post-Apartheid South Africa and finding varied self-identification patterns. Little is known about how Coloured people in Westbury, described as a Coloured area, in Johannesburg, self-identify in the post-Apartheid context. The aim of this paper is to explore how Coloured people in Westbury self-identify. This paper forms part of a larger study t…
Racial discrimination in post-Apartheid South Africa? The stories of Coloured people in Johannesburg, South Africa
Dominant theoretical conversations on experiences of racial discrimination are focused on how Black and other non-White people perceive and experience racial discrimination in White majority racial systems; however, research is scant on experiences of racial discrimination of racial minorities in Black majority social systems. This paper addresses this lacuna by exploring perceived experiences of racial discrimination of Coloured people in Johann…
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