Evaluation of the Effect of Migration on the Campaign towards Gender Based Violence in South Africa

Abstract

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of migration on the campaign towards GBV in South African. President, Cyril Ramaphosa assented to laws that strengthen fight against Gender- Based Violence. To realise the study, qualitative research method has been employed, through the interviews to evaluate the in-depth effect of migration on the campaign of GBV in SA, eight participants were interviewed. The thematic analysis was also use to transcribe all the interviews fully, to arrive at the meaningful responses by reflexive coding as well as the analytic technique. Findings has shown that amongst other issues, the victims could not report the abuse, since in most cases they were scared that they were going to be disowned (maintenance and financial support in general), also since some were illegal in the country, they could face the deportation even worse being arrested for being illegal in SA. Key recommendations are that due to the important implications towards the findings, this ought to be of a call to address the issues as soon as possible. It cannot be shy away of the fact that we are dealing with human species here, of which at the end it cannot be done away with the fact that there’s an element of have been in a situation of breaking the laws: this should be treated as a crisis to assist in both sides of the victims and the perpetrators, as well as the government.