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Title: | Protecting the Rights of Labour Migrants in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
Author: | Juma, L. |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 269-283 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | labour migration human rights offences against human rights Urbanization and Migration Labor and Employment Law, Human Rights and Violence |
Abstract: | The general belief and feeling that South Africa is under siege from a torrent of illegal labour immigrants from neighbouring countries has spurred deep hatred for aliens. Exacerbated by a frequent political rhetoric labelling aliens as criminals, inept legislation, and the xenophobic abuse of aliens' rights by government authorities, the migrant population is perhaps the most denigrated and repressed group of persons in South Africa today. This article dwells on the subject of human rights as it relates to labour migrants. It focuses on undocumented migrants, as they most profoundly bring out the full extent of the abuse of rights. In the first part, the article situates the rights discussion in the context of State power so as to elucidate the extent to which State sovereignty ought to be limited. The second part discusses the state of human rights abuse in South Africa and the prevailing regulatory measures. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |