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

By: Francis B NyamnjohContributor(s): Francis B NyamnjohMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: Brijwasi Book Distributor | H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi-110092Publication details: Dakar, Senegal : Codesria Books ; London ; New York : in association with Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan , 2006Description: x, 273 pages. :24cmISBN: 9781842776773Genre/Form: Social conflict DDC classification: 305.560 NYA
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.
Summary: 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
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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.

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

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