Immigration africaine en Afrique du Sud

Les migrants francophones des années 90

Antoine BOUILLON (ed.), 1999, Paris, Karthala; Johannesburg, IFAS
ISBN : 2-86537-885-3
Coll. “Man and Society”; Collection directed by Jean Copans

[Book in French]

Since the abolition of apartheid and the onset of the democratic transition, South Africa has been attracting many foreigners, with thousands of African migrants in particular, coming from the whole continent and, more specifically, from francophone Africa.

Perceived as intruders coming to unduly reap the rewards of a freedom so dearly acquired, assimilated in their majority to “illegal immigrants”, forming the subject of police repression still underlain largely by a legislation inherited from apartheid, migrants from Southern, Central, Western, Eastern as well as North Africa are on their way to become the scapegoats of frustrations engendered by the limitations of the transition.