From 'foreign natives' to 'native foreigners' [electronic resource] : explaining xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa : citizenship and nationalism, identity and politics / Michael Neocosmos.
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TextSeries: Codesria book seriesPublication details: Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA, c2010.Edition: [2nd ed.]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 172 p.)ISBN: - 9782869783973 (electronic bk.)
- 2869783973 (electronic bk.)
- Xenophobia -- South Africa
- Citizenship -- South Africa
- Nationalism -- South Africa
- Immigrants -- South Africa -- Social conditions
- Migrant labor -- South Africa
- Foreign workers -- South Africa
- Marginality, Social -- South Africa
- South Africa -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
- 305.560968 22
- JV8825.2 .N47 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-169).
"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.
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