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The Framing of African Immigrants as the Problematic Aliens

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This chapter provides an introduction by outlining the framing of African immigrants as the threatening other- the problematic aliens in contemporary South Africa. This framing projects the African immigrants as only capable of importing a litany of problems that range from committing a host of crimes to the use of magical powers to cause other social problems. This chapter therefore probematises this construction of African immigrants and locates the book within these debates.

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Moyo, I. (2017). The Framing of African Immigrants as the Problematic Aliens. In: African Immigrant Traders in Inner City Johannesburg. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57144-7_1

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