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Title: | (Re)Writing Xenophobia: Understanding Press Coverage of Cross-Border Migration in Southern Africa |
Authors: | MacDonald, David A. Jacobs, Sean |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Journal of Contemporary African Studies |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | November |
Pages: | 295-325 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Southern Africa South Africa |
Subjects: | press racism immigrants Literature, Mass Media and the Press Urbanization and Migration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589000500274050 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=48FB81EE919160AFD6BD |
Abstract: | In a previous article, R. Danso and D. McDonald (2001) reviewed English-language press coverage in South Africa from 1994 to 1998 and argued that reportage and editorial comment on cross-border migration was largely anti-immigrant and unanalytical. The present article updates the previous study to determine what, if any, changes have occurred in South Africa with respect to xenophobia in the press by looking at English-language newspapers from 2000 to 2005 and comparing the results to the former survey. The article also poses a series of hypotheses as to why press coverage in South Africa is xenophobic (or not) and possible future trends. It also expands the analysis to Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia. The variations across the region indicate that xenophobic press coverage in southern Africa (or its non-xenophobic counterpart) is a highly contextualized phenomenon for which there is no single or universal explanation. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |