The phenomenon of xenophobia as experienced by immigrant learners in Johannesburg inner city schools

dc.contributor.authorKrüger, Deirdré
dc.contributor.authorOsman, Razia
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-14T09:49:51Z
dc.date.available2016-06-14T09:49:51Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThis article aims to describe how xenophobia is experienced by a small selection of immigrant participants in five inner city schools in Johannesburg. The May 2008 xenophobic violence prompted the investigation. Theoretically, the article is also concerned with ways to combat xenophobia in schools with a view to bringing about fundamental social change aimed at deconstructing ‘anti-xenophobia education’, as the term has been coined. The methodology for the qualitative inquiry took the form of a triple-layered case study: the layers consist of the various groups of participants: immigrant learners, South African learners and educators. Sixteen semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted and the main method of data analysis was content analysis using Tesch’s (Creswell, 1994: 155) method of sorting the content of communications. The findings support the need for anti-xenophobia education in the schools under scrutiny. The immigrant participants reported very little compassion, rather humiliation and degradation in the form of unjust stereotyping, prejudice, bias and discrimination. Although cosmopolitanism featured, ‘otherness’ is far from being incorporated into an all-embracing ‘us’. Distrust between immigrant and South African learners emerged and both groups stereotyped the other as violent, although lack of trust and fear as pervasive issues seemed to underlie the stereotyping.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKruger, D., & Osman, R. (2010). The phenomenon of xenophobia as experienced by immigrant learners in Johannesburg inner city schools. Perspectives in Education, 28(4), 52-60.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0258-2236 (print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/2878
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherFaculty of Education, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.rights.holderFaculty of Education, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.subjectXenophobiaen_ZA
dc.subjectInner city schoolsen_ZA
dc.subjectJohannesburgen_ZA
dc.subjectAnti-xenophobia educationen_ZA
dc.subjectImmigrant learnersen_ZA
dc.titleThe phenomenon of xenophobia as experienced by immigrant learners in Johannesburg inner city schoolsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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