05251nam 2200817Ia 450 991078116480332120200520144314.02-86978-335-31-282-71086-997866127108652-86978-397-32-86978-334-52-86978-323-X(CKB)2550000000016531(EBL)1135220(OCoLC)816570480(SSID)ssj0000436868(PQKBManifestationID)11315395(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000436868(PQKBWorkID)10431641(PQKB)10926155(MiAaPQ)EBC1135220(OCoLC)728521927(MdBmJHUP)muse21849(Au-PeEL)EBL1135220(CaPaEBR)ebr10405190(CaONFJC)MIL271086(PPN)198680562(EXLCZ)99255000000001653120070418d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrom 'foreign natives' to 'native foreigners'[electronic resource] explaining xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa : citizenship and nationalism, identity and politics /Michael Neocosmos[2nd ed.].Dakar, Senegal CODESRIAc20101 online resource (190 p.)CODESRIA monograph seriesDescription based upon print version of record.2-86978-307-8 Includes bibliographical references.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 ProcessThesis Three: Xenophobia is Concerned with Exclusion from Citizenship which Denotes a Specific Political Relationship Between State and SocietyThesis Four: Xenophobia is the Outcome of a Relation Between Different Forms of Politics; The Study of Xenophobia in South Africa; CHAPTER TWO: The Apartheid State and Migration to South Africa; State and Citizenship in Southern Africa; The Apartheid State; Apartheid, Migrant Labour, Citizenship and Resistance; National Liberation and the Urban-Economic Understanding of Apartheid; Popular Struggles and National Citizenship in Countryside and TownConclusionsCHAPTER 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 EffectsCriminalisation, 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"The events of May 2008 in which 62 people were killed simply for being 'foreign' 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 ..."-- Back cover.Monograph series (Codesria)XenophobiaSouth AfricaCitizenshipSouth AfricaNationalismSouth AfricaImmigrantsSouth AfricaSocial conditionsMigrant laborSouth AfricaForeign workersSouth AfricaSouth AfricaEmigration and immigrationGovernment policyXenophobiaCitizenshipNationalismImmigrantsSocial conditions.Migrant laborForeign workers305.560968Neocosmos M704699MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781164803321From 'Foreign Natives' to 'Native Foreigners1354266UNINA