Rights at Risk: Refugees in the New South Africa

This thesis seeks to analyze the relationship between public attitudes toward refugees in a refugee receiving state and the realization of the legal rights afforded refugees (de facto rights). I hypothesize that the more negative a host culture is toward refugees, the less refugees are able to realize their rights. Conversely, the more positive a host culture is toward refugees, the more refugees are able to realize their rights. I test the hypothesis through a case study of refugee populations in Cape Town, South Africa, based on research conducted from May to June 2007. The orientation (positive or negative) of the host culture's perceptions toward a refugee group (Independent Variable) is measured through: (1) a coded content analysis of the South African media, (2) a coded content analysis of semi-structured interviews, and (3) an assessment of secondary source public opinion surveys and reports. The realization of refugee rights (Dependent Variable) is operationalized as a function of two rights: (1) the right to personal physical integrity and (2) the right to protection from unlawful detention. These rights are measured by coding (1) media reports and (2) interviews, and by (3) assessing NGO reports and secondary source public opinion surveys. My empirical data shows that the cultural orientation toward refugees is not overwhelmingly negative, and the realization of rights is not conclusively "low." However, the frequency of data coded "negative" and "low" versus "positive" or "high" suggest that South Africans regard refugees somewhat negatively and that rights are not fully realized. This finding is strengthened by the analysis of secondary sources and field notes.

The CLIMATE data base of monthly normals for globally gridded climatic variables (version 2.1)

This database (Leemans & Cramer 1991) contains monthly averages of mean temperature, temperature range, precipitation, rain days and sunshine hours for the terrestrial surface of the globe, gridded at 0.5 degree longitude/latitude resolution. All grd-files contain the same 62483 pixels in the same order, with 30' latitude and longitude resolution. The coordinates are in degree-decimals and indicate the SW corner of each pixel. Topography is from ETOPO5 and indicates modal elevation. Data were generated from a large data base, using the partial thin-plate splining algorithm (Hutchinson & Bischof 1983). This version is widely used around the globe, notably by all groups participating in the IGBP NPP model intercomparison.

Voices of the New South Africa: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (dir: John Kani, 2008) : and, HOMECOMING (dir: Norman Maake, 2005) [videorecording]

"2 DVD set"

Wanderings and excursions in South Wales, with the scenery of the River Wye /

Includes index.

The story of Durham, city of the new South,

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of trustees for year ended 30th June .

Title from caption.

Forestry handbook ...

"All the illustrations are based upon the illustrations contained in my Forest fiora of New South Wales."--Pref., pt. II, p. [iii]. Original numbering of plates retained.

Black labor unions in South Africa : report of a symposium /

Mode of access: Internet.

A statistical account of Australia and New Zealand.

Report year varies.

Wanderings and excursions in South Wales, with the scenery of the River Wye. With 50 engravings from drawings

"Partly written by Louisa A. Twamley, afterwards Mrs. Meredith."--Dict. nat. biog.

Journey into South Wales, through the counties of Oxford, Warwick, Worcester, Hereford, Salop, Stasfford, Buckingham, and Hertford; in the year 1799.

Mode of access: Internet.

Statistics. Six states of Australia and New Zealand, 1861 to 1900.

Mode of access: Internet.

Summary of the labor situation in South Korea /

"October 1955."