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1 online resource (190 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Accounting for Xenophobiain Post-apartheid South Africa; 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 |
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ConclusionsCHAPTER 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 |
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Criminalisation, Policing, Repatriation and the Role of the MediaSociety: 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 |
| Summary |
The events of May 2008 in which 62 people were killed simply for being ëforeigní 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 xenophobia should be understood as a political discourse and practice. As such its historical development as well as the conditions of its existence must be elucidated in terms of the practices and prescriptions which structure the field of politics. In South Africa, the history of xenophobia is intimately connected to the manner in which 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 the same migrant labour as the foundation of that oppressive system. Only those who could show a family connection with the colonial and apartheid formation of South Africa could claim citizenship at liberation. Others were excluded and seen as unjustified claimants to national resources. Xenophobiaís conditions of existence, the book argues, are to be found in the politics of post-apartheid nationalism where state prescriptions founded on indigeneity have been allowed to dominate uncontested in conditions of an overwhelmingly passive conception of citizenship. The de-politicisation of an urban population, which had been able to assert its agency during the 1980s through a discourse of human rights in particular, contributed to this passivity. Such state liberal politics have remained largely unchallenged. As in other cases of post-colonial transition in Africa, the hegemony of xenophobic discourse, the book contends, is to be sought in the specific character of the state consensus |
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Marginality, Social -- South Africa
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Foreign workers -- South Africa
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Migrant labor -- South Africa
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Immigrants -- South Africa -- Social conditions
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Nationalism -- South Africa
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Citizenship -- South Africa
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Xenophobia -- South Africa
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Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination.
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Citizenship
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
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Foreign workers
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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Marginality, Social
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Migrant labor
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Nationalism
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Xenophobia
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South Africa -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
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South Africa
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1282710869 |
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9781282710863 |
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9782869783355 |
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2869783353 |
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