LEADER 03755oam 22005654a 450 001 9910812661303321 005 20240508130814.0 010 $a1-920596-44-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000006671661 035 $a(OCoLC)1054064066 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse70557 035 $a(PPN)233400249 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88862714 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5516362 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006671661 100 $a20181102d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aProblematizing the Foreign Shop$eJustifications for Restricting the Migrant Spaza Sector in South Africa /$fVanya Gastrow 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2018 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2018 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (44 pages) 225 0 $aSAMP migration policy series ;$vno. 80 311 $a1-920596-43-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 34-36). 327 $aIntroduction -- Methodology -- Governance interventions aimed at curtailing migrant small businesses -- The Masiphumelele intervention -- Other interventions -- Justifications for curbing migrant spazas -- Economic harm -- Illegal activity -- Increased crime -- Reducing violence -- Broader factors contributing to political anxiety over migrant spazas -- Local political dynamics behind migrant spaza regulation -- Conclusion. 330 $aSmall businesses owned by international migrants and refugees are often the target of xenophobic hostility and attack in South Africa. This report examines the problematization of migrant-owned businesses in South Africa, and the regulatory efforts aimed at curtailing their economic activities. In so doing, it sheds light on the complex ways in which xenophobic fears are generated and manifested in the country's social, legal and political orders. Efforts to curb migrant spaza shops in South Africa have included informal trade agreements at local levels, fining migrant shops, and legislation that prohibits asylum seekers from operating businesses in the country. Several of these interventions have overlooked the content of local by-laws and outed legal frameworks. The report concludes that when South African township residents attack migrant spaza shops, they are expressing their dissatisfaction with their socio-economic conditions to an apprehensive state and political leadership. In response, governance actors turn on migrant shops to demonstrate their allegiance to these residents, to appease South African spaza shopkeepers, and to tacitly blame socio-economic malaise on perceived foreign forces. Overall, these actors do not have spaza shops primarily in mind when calling for the stricter regulation of these businesses. Instead, they are concerned about the volatile support of their key political constituencies and how this backing can be undermined or generated by the symbolic gesture of regulating the foreign shop. 410 0$aMigration policy series ;$vno. 80. 606 $aImmigrants$zSouth Africa 606 $aBusiness enterprises, Black$zSouth Africa 606 $aHome-based businesses$zSouth Africa 606 $aInformal sector (Economics)$zSouth Africa 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aImmigrants 615 0$aBusiness enterprises, Black 615 0$aHome-based businesses 615 0$aInformal sector (Economics) 676 $a338.04089 700 $aGastrow$b Vanya$01712781 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812661303321 996 $aProblematizing the Foreign Shop$94105206 997 $aUNINA