State Response and Resilience to Xenophobic Attack on Nigerians in South Africa: A Discourse, The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Nigerian Forum.
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2020-02
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Nigerian Institute of International Affairs
Abstract
In the recent time, Nigerians in South Africa have
witnessed renewed attack from their South Africa
counterparts due to struggle for limited social and
economic resources in the country. Xenophobic
attack was not new, it stated in 2008 and
reoccurred in 2015 though with minor attention from Nigerian Government. However, the recent
attack on Nigerians in South Africa is only
debilitating but also endemic thus draw reaction
from both the local populace and Nigeria
Government. This paper therefore, discusses the
Nigeria’s government responses to xenophobic
attack on Nigerians in South Africa and her
capability to curtail future attack on Nigerians by
South Africa. The paper adopts relative
deprivation theory, a theory that situates violent
struggle on economic resources on the deprivation
or lack of access to the resources by a party to
the crisis. Data were sourced from available
literature on the topic and analyzed qualitatively.
Findings reveal that Nigeria Government
diplomatic responses to the attack were of
international standard but the Government needs
to among others, improve her economic fortunes
in order to improve her citizens international
recognition and respond to such crisis
appropriately.
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xenophobia, Diplomatic, Deprivation, Survival, Development