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Author
D. Vigneswaran
Year
2008
Title
A foot in the door: access to asylum in South Africa
Number of pages
21
Publisher
Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand
Serie
Migration studies working paper series
Volume | Edition (Serie)
40
Document type
Working paper
Faculty
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
Institute
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract
Asylum seekers in South Africa experience extreme difficulties lodging their claimsat the Department of Home Affairs. This paper utilises new survey data to measurethe extent of the Department’s failures to provide access to the status determination process. The principal finding is that South African officials often go out of their way to prevent asylum seekers from entering the system. This provides support for the argument the Department is beholden to an institutional culture of immigration protectionism. This assessment differs from conventional analyses of poor African performance of status determination which emphasise issues of corruption and institutional capacity.
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Language
English
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.376720

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