Is It True? foreigners ” stealing jobs ” in South Africa
International migrants are often accused of stealing jobs from locals in South Africa during recently Xenophobia attacks. But new data presents a far more nuanced picture of what it means to be a migrant trying to make a living in the country. By Kate Wilkinson for AFRICA CHECK. "The idea that people are here ‘stealing’ jobs and that they don’t have a right to be here needs to be corrected,” says Dr Zaheera Jinnah, an anthropologist and...