- Title
- Xenophobia, sovereign power and the limits of citizenship:
- Creator
- Idahosa, Grace E
- Creator
- Vincent, Louise
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141970
- Identifier
- vital:38020
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2014.914637
- Description
- African foreigners in South Africa have frequently been the targets of violent and discriminatory practices, which occur in the enabling context of negative discourses concerning African foreigners that circulate in various spheres of public life. This study is interested in one particular field of interaction between African foreigners and the South African state, namely the public health sector. Discriminatory and, sometimes, violent practices towards African foreigners on the part of South African citizens are widely documented. Less discussed are the ways in which these practices of violence and discrimination are in fact state practices. We show this with reference to the treatment of African foreigners in the public health sector. We refer to this prejudicial treatment as health-care Xenophobia which is made possible by a wider set of discourses related to citizenship and the rights accruing to citizens which suggest the ‘non-rights’ of the non-citizen.
- Format
- 11 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Africa Review
- Relation
- Idahosa, G. and Vincent, L.D., 2014. Xenophobia, sovereign power and the limits of citizenship. Africa Review, 6(2), pp.94-104.
- Relation
- Africa Review volume 6 number 2 94 104 May 2014 0974-4061
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