Title: "Prohibited persons" : abuse of undocumented migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees in South Africa.
Authors: Bouckaert, Peter.; Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Refugees Civil rights South Africa.; Migrant labor South Africa; Asylum, Right of South Africa.; Human rights South Africa; Xenophobia South Africa.; Political refugees South Africa.; Refugees South Africa.
Abstract: Xenophobia in South Africa is rising alarmingly. Unpunished attacks on foreigners are disturbingly common, and foreigners are regularly victimized by the South African police, the army, and by guards at detention facilities. Detention conditions for migrants awaiting deportation are substandard and overcrowded.