In post-apartheid South Africa, migration policies and legislation have left critical issues such as social cohesion and integration unsolved. Furthermore, the inability to reconcile the national interest of maintaining borders’ integrity with respecting moral and legal obligations has placed the asylum system under tremendous stress. Drawing from secondary sources, as well as qualitative interviews, this paper explores the development of new asylum policies aimed at curtailing asylum seekers’ right to work in South Africa. The study’s findings provide support for the conclusions of earlier research that highlights the consequences of hostile policies and practices for asylum seekers’ livelihoods. The author argues that curtailments on asylum seekers’ right to work will have many possible socio-economic ramifications. In the immediate term, the legislation seeks to inhibit asylum seekers from engaging in self-employment, while in the long run it may achieve the undesired effect of producing more precarious forms of livelihood.

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使寻求庇护者在南非更加脆弱：敌对的庇护政策对生计的负面影响

在种族隔离后的南非，移民政策和立法使社会凝聚力和融合等关键问题悬而未决。此外，无法在维护边界完整的国家利益与尊重道德和法律义务之间调和，使庇护制度承受巨大压力。本文利用二手资料和定性访谈，探讨了旨在限制寻求庇护者在南非工作的权利的新庇护政策的发展。该研究的发现为早期研究的结论提供了支持，这些研究强调了敌对政策和做法对寻求庇护者生计的影响。作者认为，限制寻求庇护者的工作权将产生许多可能的社会经济后果。在短期内，