ABSTRACT This article reports on a study that explored how Eritrean refugees in South Africa – part of a generational wave of emigrants labelled the “generation asylum” by Hepner (2015) – make sense of their refugee experience and identities, herewith referred to as interpretative repertoires. Interpretative repertoires is a concept coined by sociologists, Gilbert and Mulkay (1984) and later adopted by Potter and Wetherell (1987), to refer to the different and at times contradictory ways in which social actors characterise or describe a phenomenon. Five dominant interpretative repertoires were identified based on a discursive analysis of interview transcripts with 10 participants living in Pretoria, South Africa: (1) the “rights” repertoire; (2) the “embrace your refugee identity” repertoire; (3) the “victimised refugee” repertoire; (4) the “protected refugee” repertoire; and (5) the “criminalised refugee” repertoire. It is argued that participants deployed contradictory and yet complementary repertoires, drawing primarily on lived and imagined experiences in their country of origin and asylum as resources to give meaning to their refugee identities. These repertoires demonstrate the refugees’ ambivalence and bring to the surface the tensions they experience between South Africa’s constitutional promise and their relative legal security, on the one hand, and the everyday threat of xenophobic violence and negative public sentiment, on the other hand.

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南非的厄立特里亚人如何谈论他们的难民经历：话语分析

摘要 本文报告了一项研究，该研究探讨了在南非的厄立特里亚难民——赫普纳（Hepner，2015 年）将其称为“世代庇护”的一代移民浪潮的一部分——如何理解他们的难民经历和身份，在此称为解释性曲目. 解释性曲目是社会学家 Gilbert 和 Mulkay (1984) 创造的概念，后来被 Potter 和 Wetherell (1987) 采纳，用来指代社会行为者表征或描述现象的不同且有时相互矛盾的方式。根据对居住在南非比勒陀利亚的 10 名参与者的采访记录的话语分析，确定了五个主要的解释性曲目：（1）“权利”曲目；(2) “拥抱你的难民身份”曲目；(3) “受害难民”剧目；(4) “受保护难民”曲目；(5) “被定罪的难民”剧目。有人认为，参与者部署了相互矛盾但又互补的曲目，主要利用他们在原籍国和庇护所的生活和想象经验作为资源，赋予他们的难民身份意义。这些剧目展示了难民的矛盾心理，并揭示了他们在南非宪法承诺和相对法律安全之间所经历的紧张关系，另一方面，仇外暴力和负面公众情绪的日常威胁。主要利用他们在原籍国和庇护所的生活和想象经验作为资源，赋予他们的难民身份意义。这些剧目展示了难民的矛盾心理，并揭示了他们在南非宪法承诺和相对法律安全之间所经历的紧张关系，另一方面，仇外暴力和负面公众情绪的日常威胁。主要利用他们在原籍国和庇护所的生活和想象经验作为资源，赋予他们的难民身份意义。这些剧目展示了难民的矛盾心理，并揭示了他们在南非宪法承诺和相对法律安全之间所经历的紧张关系，另一方面，仇外暴力和负面公众情绪的日常威胁。