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- Title
Xenophobic Attitudes against Immigrants and Cheap Political Talks: Sitting Time Bombs and Explosives in South Africa.
- Authors
Sebola, Mokoko Piet
- Abstract
It is clearly known from the governments' perspective that foreign policies are an activity of the state. To that extent the government is said to be arepresentative of its citizen in international relations. Citizens are, therefore, to have a limited say on how their government decide to interact with whichever country and at whatever terms and applicable conditions of agreement in that relationship. That right accorded to government by its people gives the government an authority to enter into international relation on agreements which if people were given platform to talk they would have not agreed to such relations. This paper would like to argue that the interactions on foreign relations without citizens' inputs and knowledge are major causes of a discomforted relationship between locals and immigrants of foreign descendants. This paper is conceptual in nature and will use literature sources to argue that if government as an authority of foreign policy enters into foreign relations agreement and does not inform its own citizens accordingly a hostile relationship between the locals and immigrants is likely to continue unresolved. This paper conclude that in South Africa a clear political education and on African continent a sound government stand on immigration is required to put people on same level about immigrants' rights.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; XENOPHOBIA; IMMIGRANTS; EXPLOSIVES; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology, 2017, Vol 14, Issue 1, p89
- ISSN
1819-8465
- Publication type
Article