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- Title
Economic Forced Migration in Southern Africa: The Case of Malawi.
- Authors
Sungani, Cobbener Wilfred; Mwale, Pascal Newbourne
- Abstract
As with other world regions, free market capitalism or the neoliberal system has caused numerous individuals and families to lose access to viable income-generating bases in Southern Africa. This places them in a socio-economically abject and precarious position. Resource-poor and unemployed Southern Africans have for a long time been forced to migrate to less unstable economies within the region. South Africa continues to be the most attractive destination for most poor and destitute Southern Africans. These people are called 'economic refugees' in the dominant literature. Hitherto, the plight of the Malawian 'economic refugee' in South Africa has not attracted much scholarly attention. Drawing on the interdisciplinary methodologies of African social philosophy and African social history, we present the case of Malawian economic refugees in South Africa. Drawing upon ideas derived from Immanuel Kant's analysis in Perpetual Peace (1917), this paper argues for the promotion of the spirit of fraternity between South Africans and Malawian migrants.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; MALAWI; FORCED migration; KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; SOCIAL theory; AFRICAN history; AFRICAN philosophy; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration, 2024, Issue 13, p98
- ISSN
1540-7497
- Publication type
Article