"Do we stay or do we leave?” : the role of trust and engagement in students’ decision whether to remain in South Africa
- Authors: Uys, Tina , Senekal, Anton
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: University of Johannesburg - Students , Emigration and immigration - South Africa
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5601 , ISSN 09766634 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14331
- Description: This paper focuses on University of Johannesburg (UJ) students' views on remaining in or leaving South Africa. These views are based on the degree of trust students perceive the government (broadly defined) to be worthy of, and the degree of engagement in the affairs of the country that students are prepared to expend in the context of perceived threats to South African citizens. A survey of 1214 undergraduate students on all four UJ campuses was conducted in 2011. Care was taken that the sample reflected the overall picture of the research population. The data is analysed in terms of a typology that considers the extent to which people either respond to real or perceived threats based on trust or distrust in the government's ability and willingness to protect their interests as citizens. On this basis, they could furthermore either engage the threatening reality or disengage from it altogether. The paper analyses the extent to which patterns can be identified among different groups of UJ undergraduate students with regard to the four possible responses that emerge from the developed typology: Trusting engagement, trusting disengagement, distrusting engagement and distrusting disengagement.
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- Authors: Uys, Tina , Senekal, Anton
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: University of Johannesburg - Students , Emigration and immigration - South Africa
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5601 , ISSN 09766634 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14331
- Description: This paper focuses on University of Johannesburg (UJ) students' views on remaining in or leaving South Africa. These views are based on the degree of trust students perceive the government (broadly defined) to be worthy of, and the degree of engagement in the affairs of the country that students are prepared to expend in the context of perceived threats to South African citizens. A survey of 1214 undergraduate students on all four UJ campuses was conducted in 2011. Care was taken that the sample reflected the overall picture of the research population. The data is analysed in terms of a typology that considers the extent to which people either respond to real or perceived threats based on trust or distrust in the government's ability and willingness to protect their interests as citizens. On this basis, they could furthermore either engage the threatening reality or disengage from it altogether. The paper analyses the extent to which patterns can be identified among different groups of UJ undergraduate students with regard to the four possible responses that emerge from the developed typology: Trusting engagement, trusting disengagement, distrusting engagement and distrusting disengagement.
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A touch of Africa : liberal bildung through an encounter with African immigrants in Andrew Brown's Refuge
- Authors: Fasselt, Rebecca
- Date: 2015-06-22
- Subjects: Liberalism in literature , Emigration and immigration - South Africa , Brown, Andrew. Refuge
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5547 , ISSN 1812-5441 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14131
- Description: his article engages with the emergence of a “reconstructed liberalism” (Blair 2012) in South African fiction published after 2000 through a reading of Andrew Brown’s 2009 novel, Refuge. The novel, I argue, forms part of a body of fiction that views post-apartheid immigration from elsewhere on the African continent to South Africa through a predominantly liberal perspective. Reading Brown’s novel through the framework of the liberal Bildungsroman , I show that it is, however, largely the white characters who undergo a positive development through the encounter with Nigerian immigrants and refugees, while no such solution is offered for the migrant characters. Evoking “liberalism’s fetishization of victimhood” (Attwell 1993: 80), the novel partly constitutes African migrants as self-validating others. Yet, I also draw attention to the textual strategies employed that undercut any interpretation based on an uncritical adoption of a liberal stance in its engagement with migration...
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- Authors: Fasselt, Rebecca
- Date: 2015-06-22
- Subjects: Liberalism in literature , Emigration and immigration - South Africa , Brown, Andrew. Refuge
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5547 , ISSN 1812-5441 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14131
- Description: his article engages with the emergence of a “reconstructed liberalism” (Blair 2012) in South African fiction published after 2000 through a reading of Andrew Brown’s 2009 novel, Refuge. The novel, I argue, forms part of a body of fiction that views post-apartheid immigration from elsewhere on the African continent to South Africa through a predominantly liberal perspective. Reading Brown’s novel through the framework of the liberal Bildungsroman , I show that it is, however, largely the white characters who undergo a positive development through the encounter with Nigerian immigrants and refugees, while no such solution is offered for the migrant characters. Evoking “liberalism’s fetishization of victimhood” (Attwell 1993: 80), the novel partly constitutes African migrants as self-validating others. Yet, I also draw attention to the textual strategies employed that undercut any interpretation based on an uncritical adoption of a liberal stance in its engagement with migration...
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