KWAZULU NATAL CHRISTIAN COUNCIL KZNCC Pietermaritzburg Meetings With The Department Of Home Affairs To Address The Xenophobia Problems THREE AREAS OF RISK Migrants at risk Perceptions of migrants ID: 567330
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TALES OF MIGRATION AND XENOPHOBIA - SA
KWAZULU NATAL CHRISTIAN COUNCIL (KZNCC)PietermaritzburgMeetings With The Department Of Home Affairs To Address The Xenophobia Problems.Slide2
THREE AREAS OF RISK
Migrants at riskPerceptions of migrants as risk
Migration, Community and an Ethic of Risk Choice to Risk for the creation of something new
Major Areas of focusCommunity dialogues on migration and xenophobiaLobbying and advocacy on policy formulation and reformulationMaterial supportSocial cohesion
Community integrationSlide3
Shifting Boundaries of Community and Tribe
Immigration, xenophobia and social cohesionEscaping hunger in Zimbabwe only to come face to face with death crossing Limpopo river. Mother & child illegally cross the Beit-bridge boarder into South Africa in search of better life Slide4
South Africa Neighbours Seeking Asylum In South Africa. The road is full of risks and challenges – life threatening and shredding the remaining bit of dignitySlide5
“Illegal immigrants” at the
Lindelani Detention Centre waiting to be deported mainly back to Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, NamibiaSlide6
STEROTYPES -Perceptions of Immigrants as Risk
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ALLEGATIONS OF ANTI-FOREIGNER RHETORIC Slide8
Xenophobic attacks in JohannesburgSlide9
Xenophobic attacks in durbanSlide10
Country-wide anti-xenophobia demonstrationsSlide11
Central Methodist Church in JohannesburgSlide12
Methodist Bishop Paul Verryn
“…one of the gifts that God gave this country was foreign nationals. They’ve enriched us and enabled us to break the walls between us and the rest of Africa.”Slide13
Humanness - UbuntuSlide14Slide15
In Summary – The Choice to Risk:
Openness to encounter with other humansMaking intentional movements toward one anotherStorytelling - sharing hopes and dreams, pains and joys of one another – not to ‘fix’ – respect, solidarity, able to stay in the place of ambiguityOpenness to confronting one’s own culture/group/prejudices
Openness to changing – becoming ‘reconstituted’ by the other Interculturality – immigrants occupy a new space geographically and internally of ‘being in-between’, ‘in-both’, and ‘beyond’ – a new way of being that is in some ways ‘neither/nor’ and ‘both/and’
Supporting social cohesion and community integration