I Want to Go Home Forever : Stories of becoming and belonging in South Africa's great metropolis

Generations of people from across Africa, Europe and Asia have turned metal from the depths of the earth into Africa's wealthiest, most dynamic and most diverse urban centre, a megacity where postapartheid South Africa is being made. Yet for newcomers as well as locals, the golden possibilities...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified], WITS University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Assimilation (Sociology)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Assimilation (Sociology) > South Africa.
South Africa.
South Africa > Emigration and immigration.
South Africa > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • 1. A bed of his own blood
  • 2. This country is my home
  • 3. On patrol in the dark city
  • 4. Johannesburg hustle
  • 5. Don't. Expose. Yourself
  • 6. The big man of Hosaena
  • 7. Do we owe them just because they helped us?
  • 8. Love in the time of xenophobia
  • 9. This land is our land
  • 10. Alien
  • 11. One day is one day
  • 12. I won't abandon Jeppe
  • 13. The induna
  • Timeline
  • Glossary
  • Selected place names
  • Contributors

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