From 'foreign natives' to 'native foreigners' : explaining xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa : citizenship and nationalism, identity and politics /

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"The events of May 2008 in which 62 people were killed simply for being 'foreign' and thousands were turned overnight into refugees shook the South African nation. This book is the first to attempt a comprehensive and rigorous explanation for those horrific events. It argues that xeno...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Neocosmos, M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA, ©2010.
Edición:[2nd ed.].
Colección:Codesria book series.
Temas:
Xenophobia > South Africa.
Marginality, Social > South Africa.
Citizenship > South Africa.
Nationalism > South Africa.
Immigrants > South Africa > Social conditions.
Migrant labor > South Africa.
Foreign workers > South Africa.
Xénophobie > Afrique du Sud.
Nationalisme > Afrique du Sud.
Travailleurs migrants > Afrique du Sud.
Travailleurs étrangers > Afrique du Sud.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Citizenship
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Foreign workers
Immigrants > Social conditions
Marginality, Social
Migrant labor
Nationalism
Xenophobia
South Africa > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
South Africa
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
  • Xenophobia: Absence of Theory, Absence of Politics
  • Xenophobia: Bringing Theory and Politics Back in
  • Citizenship and Political Identity: Four Theses
  • Thesis One: Xenophobia is a Discourse and Practice of Exclusion from Community
  • Thesis Two: This Process of Exclusion is a Political Process
  • Thesis Three: Xenophobia is Concerned with Exclusion from Citizenship which Denotes a Specific Political Relationship Between State and Society
  • Thesis Four: Xenophobia is the Outcome of a Relation Between Different Forms of Politics
  • The Study of Xenophobia in South Africa
  • CHAPTER TWO: The Apartheid State and Migration to South Africa
  • State and Citizenship in Southern Africa
  • The Apartheid State
  • Apartheid, Migrant Labour, Citizenship and Resistance
  • National Liberation and the Urban-Economic Understanding of Apartheid
  • Popular Struggles and National Citizenship in Countryside and Town
  • Conclusions
  • CHAPTER THREE: The Construction of a Post-apartheid
  • Constructing the Nation and Moulding Citizenship from Above: Nationalism, Indigeneity and Exclusionary Legislation
  • Nationalism, Democracy and Exclusion: The Construction of State Xenophobic Discourse
  • Bending the Rules of Indigeneity: The Post-apartheid State and Migrants from Lesotho
  • Defending 'Fortress South Africa': A Brief Review of Legislation
  • Post-apartheid Nation-building Continued: Citizenship and the State Construction of Xenophobia
  • Government Xenophobic Discourse and Its Effects
  • Criminalisation, Policing, Repatriation and the Role of the Media
  • Society: Xenophobic Attitudes, Human Rights and the Absence of Politics
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Conclusion. Theory and Political Agency
  • EPILOGUE: May 2008 and the Politics of Fear
  • The Events of May 2008
  • The Sociology of the Events and the Poverty of Explanation
  • The Politics of Fear
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of Interviews
  • Back Cover.

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