ISBN:
9782869782006
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (161 p)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als From 'Foreign Natives' to 'Native Foreigners' : Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa
DDC:
305.560968
Keywords:
Citizenship ; Africa, Southern
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Citizenship ; South Africa
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Marginality, Social ; Africa, Southern
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Marginality, Social ; South Africa
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Nationalism ; South Africa
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Xenophobia ; Africa, Southern
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Xenophobia ; South Africa
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Xenophobia is a political discourse. As such, its historical development as well as the conditions of its existence must be elucidated in terms of the practices and prescriptions that structure the field of politics. In South Africa, its history is connected to the manner citizenship has been conceived and fought over during the past fifty years at least. Migrant labour was de-nationalised by the apartheid state, while African nationalism saw it as the very foundation of that oppressive system. However, only those who could show a family connection with the colonial/apartheid formation of Sout
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter One - Introduction: Accounting for Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa; Chapter Two - The Apartheid State and Migraion to South Africa: From Rural Migrant Labour to Urban Revolt; Chapter Three - The Construction of a Post-apartheid Nationalist Discourse of Exclusion: Citizenship, State, National Identity and Xenophobia; Chapter Four - Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; List of Interviews; Back Cover
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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