Hunger, Anger and Strangers: Assembling Refugee Exclusion and Food Insecurity among Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Africa
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This chapter analyses the intersection of migration governance, societal xenophobia and food security for refugees and asylum seekers in urban South Africa. Utilising the ‘assemblage of refugee exclusion’ framework, it examines how state policies and practices, along with public xenophobia, perpetuate the food insecurity of these vulnerable groups. By analysing the legal and institutional mechanisms that contribute to their precarious status, the chapter highlights the compounded effects of legal constraints, xenophobic violence and systemic barriers to employment and social integration on food access and security. Through detailed fieldwork and interviews with displaced individuals, the study uncovers the critical challenges they face in navigating a hostile urban landscape marked by exclusionary practices, physical insecurity and restricted access to resources. The findings underscore the need for a holistic understanding of food insecurity that considers the sociopolitical dynamics affecting forcibly displaced populations, calling for policy interventions that address the root causes of exclusion and precarity in the context of urban migration.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".