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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812035203321

Autore

Neocosmos M

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dakar, Senegal, : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2006

ISBN

1-282-90136-2

9786612901362

2-86978-398-1

2-86978-354-X

2-86978-274-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Monograph series

Disciplina

305.560968

Soggetti

Xenophobia - South Africa

Marginality, Social - South Africa

Citizenship - South Africa

Nationalism - South Africa

Xenophobia - Africa, Southern

Marginality, Social - Africa, Southern

Citizenship - Africa, Southern

Nationalism - Africa, Southern

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. [142]-150).

Nota di contenuto

Front 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

Sommario/riassunto

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 Sout