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Health-seeking behaviour among African asylum seekers in South Africa : experience of male refugees in Pretoria
Dissertation (Master of Arts)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27315 Health-seeking behaviour among African asylum seekers in South Africa : experience of male refugees in Pretoria McNeill, Fraser G. Sichone, Owen B. borotoanthro@gmail.com Ntakobajira, Boroto Social transformation South africa Urbanisation Male Healing Health-seeking behaviour Refugee UCTD Dissertation (Master of Arts)--University of Pretoria, 2012. This study focuses on African male refugees and asylum seekers in Pretoria/Tshwane, the capital city of South Africa. Beyond the motives for their displacements, refugees, carrying different kinds of disturbances into their ‘new home’, seek health and therapy, because the very condition of being refugees can be understood as a health-seeking condition. An ethnographic study was conducted to investigate the different means, therapies and cures used by refugees from other African countries in order to correct the fractions of their lives that have been disrupted on their journey to becoming refugees. The study found that these male refugees associated health with self-fulfilment or well-being and this couldn’t be achieved without removing the stumbling blocks that were in their ways. Being in a foreign country and having been through humiliation and other disturbances, the need to consult certain institutions became a necessity, thus challenging the ‘classic’ constructions of masculinity. Being far from home increased the level of vulnerability and the need thereof to seek help. Belief in a magico-religious system being part of African healing systems and part of the corollaries of globalisation, modernity and urbanism; explanations for various causes of misfortune and cures were found in consulting pastors, healers, diviners, astrologists. Some of those healers and religious leaders from other African countries, being refugees were also in search of well-being, thus triggering the creation of their new professions in the land of refuge. Copyright Anthropology and Archaeology unrestricted 2013-09-07T11:10:06Z 2012-08-29 2013-09-07T11:10:06Z 2012-04-23 2012-08-29 2012-08-16 Dissertation Ntakobajira, B 2011, Health-seeking behaviour among African asylum seekers in South Africa : experience of male refugees in Pretoria, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27315 > E12/4/591/hb http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27315 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08162012-161429/ © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Social transformation South africa Urbanisation Male Healing Health-seeking behaviour Refugee UCTD Health-seeking behaviour among African asylum seekers in South Africa : experience of male refugees in Pretoria |
| title | Health-seeking behaviour among African asylum seekers in South Africa : experience of male refugees in Pretoria |
| title_full | Health-seeking behaviour among African asylum seekers in South Africa : experience of male refugees in Pretoria |
| title_fullStr | Health-seeking behaviour among African asylum seekers in South Africa : experience of male refugees in Pretoria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Health-seeking behaviour among African asylum seekers in South Africa : experience of male refugees in Pretoria |
| title_short | Health-seeking behaviour among African asylum seekers in South Africa : experience of male refugees in Pretoria |
| title_sort | health seeking behaviour among african asylum seekers in south africa experience of male refugees in pretoria |
| topic | Social transformation South africa Urbanisation Male Healing Health-seeking behaviour Refugee UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27315 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08162012-161429/ |