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

Published Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 150 pages) Series CODESRIA monograph series Série des monographies (Codesria : Unnumbered) Contents 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 Summary 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 South Africa could claim citizenship at liberation. Others were excluded and seen as unjustified claimants to national resources. Xenophobia's current conditions of existence are to be found in the politics of a post-apartheid nationalism were state prescriptions founded on indigeneity have been allowed to dominate uncontested in condition of passive citizenship. The de-politicisation of a population, which had been able to assert its agency during the 1980s, through a discourse of 'human rights' in particular, has contributed to this passivity. State liberal politics have remained largely unchallenged. As in other cases of post-colonial transition in Africa, the hegemony of xenophobic discourse, the book shows, is to be sought in the character of the state consensus. Only a rethinking of citizenship as an active political identity can re-institute political agency and hence begin to provide alternative prescriptions to the political consensus of state-induced exclusion Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-150) Notes Print version record Subject Xenophobia -- South Africa Citizenship -- South Africa Nationalism -- South Africa Immigrants -- South Africa -- Social conditions Migrant labor -- South Africa Foreign workers -- South Africa SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Citizenship Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Foreign workers Immigrants -- Social conditions Migrant labor Nationalism Xenophobia Fremdenfeindlichkeit SUBJECT South Africa -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Subject South Africa Südafrika <Staat> Form Electronic book ISBN 9782869783980 2869783981 1282901362 9781282901360

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