Waiting for the Barbarians
A public opinion analysis of South African attitudes towards international migrants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2147291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Lawrence Gordon (0000-0002-6393-2118, Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery, Human Sciences Research Council, eThekwini, South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1700-1719 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2016.1181770 |
| OpenAlex | W2418014153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 26 |
ABSTACTThe South Africa's democratic nation-building programme has sought to encourage a new non-racial nationalism. Over the last thirty years, racial divisions have lessened as the country has successfully consolidated a new democratic political system. However, interracial animosity and a sense of interracial competition continue to characterize many aspects of everyday life. Does this sense of interracial competition have an association with the emergence of widespread xenophobic sentiment in the country? Using the 2013 South African Social Attitudes Survey, a nationally representative survey, this paper will investigate determinants of anti-immigrants attitudes. The results show that anti-immigrant sentiment is linked to a sense of interracial competition and alienation. A belief that immigrants were beneficial to society was also strongly (and negatively) correlated with attitudes towards immigrants. These results suggest that reducing xenophobia in the country should be seen as part of a larger project of promoting social-cultural cohesion in the country
Alienation · Competition (biology · Democracy · Immigration · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Racism · Sociology · World Values Survey · Xenophobia · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Who Is Welcoming and Who Is Not? An Attitudinal Analysis of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in South Africa
Equity not equality
Do Skills Protect from Prejudice? Occupational Status and Ethnic Penalties in British Immigration Preferences
Anti-immigrant prejudice in a post-socialist context
Local Economic Conditions and Attitudes Toward Cross-Border Movement
Opinion leadership, threats, and enhancers to social cohesion and unity of South Africans and African immigrants in the post-apartheid era
The impact of regionalism on anti-immigrant attitudes
Ethnic minority media as counter-hegemonic and agents of participation for minority communities
Understanding xenophobic hate crime in South Africa
The importance of being African
Reframing xenophobic violence as a human security threat
Economic threat, new nationalism and xenophobia in South Africa
South African attitudes towards refugee settlement
Racial Classification Is Meaningless”
The Popularity of State Discourses on Anti-Immigrant Violence in South Africa
Xenophobia and Quality of Life
Regional Economic Communities and Attitudes Toward Free Cross-Border Movement in Africa
South African Parties Hardly Politicise Immigration in Their Electoral Manifestos
Attitudes to immigrants in South Africa
Do South Africans Exist?
Intergroup Relations
Human groups and social categories
Migration and National Identity in South Africa, 1860–2010
The Deadly Ethnic Riot
A Democratic South Africa
Insiders and Outsiders
Neighbourhood-level social capital and anti-immigrant prejudice in an African context
National Identification And Anti-Immigrant Prejudice
Patterns of intergroup attitudes in South Africa after 1994
Africa's Fear of Itself
Historical Trends in South African Race Attitudes
Emerging Patterns of Social Identification in Postapartheid South Africa
Racial Reconciliation in South Africa
Naturing the Nation
Educated Preferences
Core Networks and Whites’ Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy
The Consequences of Multiracial Contexts on Public Attitudes toward Immigration
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration
Autofiction and national identity
Perceptions of Racial Group Competition
The South African Ideology
From 'Foreign Natives' to 'Native Foreigners
The limitations of 'inter-racial contact
| Unique citing works | 19 |
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| Citations per year | 2,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |