The Owners of Xenophobia: Zimbabwean Informal Enterprise and Xenophobic Violence in South Africa

This paper is a contribution to our understanding of the intertwined economicand political crises in Zimbabwe and the crisis of xenophobia in South Africa.There have been few studies to date specifically examining the impact ofxenophobic violence on Zimbabweans trying to make a living in the SouthAfrican informal economy. The paper first provides a picture of Zimbabweanmigrant entrepreneurship using survey data from a 2015 study of migrants …