Insiders and outsiders : citizenship and xenophobia in contemporary Southern Africa

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Title:

Author:

Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961-

ISBN:

9781842776766

9781842776773

Personal Author:

Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961-

Publication Information:

Dakar, Senegal : Codesria Books ; London ; New York : Zed Books : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Physical Description:

x, 273 p. ; 22 cm.

Series:

Africa in the new millennium

Series Title:

Africa in the new millennium

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

Social conflict -- Africa, Southern.

Social integration -- Africa, Southern.

Citizenship -- Africa, Southern.

Xenophobia -- Africa, Southern.

Marginality, Social -- Africa, Southern.

Geographic Term:

Botswana -- Ethnic relations.

South Africa -- Ethnic relations.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047355-b.html
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2005047355-t.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047355-d.html

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This study of xenophobia and how it both exploits and excludes is an incisive commentary on a globalizing world and its consequences for ordinary people's lives. Using the examples of Sub-Saharan Africa's two most economically successful nations, it meticulously documents the fate of immigrants and the new politics of insiders and outsiders. As globalization becomes a palpable reality, citizenship, sociality and belonging are subjected to stresses to which few societies have devised a civil response beyond yet more controls.