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Witchcraft, trust, and reciprocity among Mozambican refugees and their South African hosts in a Lowveld village Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE REFUGEES RURAL AREAS RECEIVING COUNTRY REFUGEE/LOCAL COMMUNITY RELATIONS Research on black African refugees and immigrants in South Africa has focused disproportionately on their experience in urban areas. We know a great deal about the harassment and harsh treatment they suffer at the hands of mainly black South Africans. We know very little of the experience of rural-based refugees and immigrants. Also, research about immigrants tends to focus on their experiences to the exclusion of the everyday lives of their hosts. In this paper I turn the spotlight on rural-based refugees in a South African village. In addition to examining their relationship with their hosts, I discuss relationships within the two communities and how they are shaped by internal factors such as belief in witchcraft, and external ones such as government policies and socio-economic circumstances. What emerges is a complex picture that challenges conventional wisdom about the attitude of South Africans towards immigrants and refugees, and about refugees as a problem. 2026-09-30T11:48:37Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33354246.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Witchcraft_trust_and_reciprocity_among_Mozambican_refugees_and_their_South_African_hosts_in_a_Lowveld_village/33354246 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0