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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170968303321

Autore

Nyamnjoh Francis B. <1961->

Titolo

Insiders and outsiders : citizenship and xenophobia in contemporary Southern Africa / / Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dakar, Senegal, : Codesria Books

London ; ; New York, : In association with Zed Books

New York, : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-350-22077-9

1-84813-707-9

1-281-25899-7

9786611258993

1-84813-104-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Africa in the new millennium

Disciplina

305.5/6/0968

Soggetti

Social conflict - Africa, Southern

Social integration - Africa, Southern

Citizenship - Africa, Southern

Xenophobia - Africa, Southern

Marginality, Social - Africa, Southern

Botswana Ethnic relations

South Africa Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : globalisation, mobility, citizenship and xenophobia in Southern Africa -- 1. Mobility, citizenship and xenophobia in South Africa -- 2. Citizenship, mobility and xenophobia in Botswana -- 3. Gender, domesticity, mobility and citizenship -- 4. Maids, mobility and citizenship in Botswana -- 5. Madams and maids : coping with domination and dehumanisation -- 6. Conclusion : requiem for bounded citizenship.

Sommario/riassunto

Nyamnjoh?s book about the heightened xenophobia that both exploits and excludes is an incisive commentary on a globalizing world that



reaches down into the grassroots of so many societies with consequences for ordinary people?s lives that have received all too little attention. He meticulously documents the fate of immigrants and the new politics of insiders and outsiders in these Southern African societies, at the same time delivering a telling commentary on the global rhetoric of open societies in an era of increasing closures and exclusions.