From Foreign Natives To Native Foreigners

Author : Michael Neocosmos
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 2869783981
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From 'Foreign Natives' to 'Native Foreigners'. Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa written by Michael Neocosmos and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 South Africa could claim citizenship at liberation. Others were excluded and seen as unjustified claimants to national resources. Xenophobia's current conditions of existence are to be found in the politics of a post-apartheid nationalism were state prescriptions founded on indigeneity have been allowed to dominate uncontested in condition of passive citizenship. The de-politicisation of a population, which had been able to assert its agency during the 1980s, through a discourse of 'human rights' in particular, has contributed to this passivity. State liberal politics have remained largely unchallenged. As in other cases of post-colonial transition in Africa, the hegemony of xenophobic discourse, the book shows, is to be sought in the character of the state consensus. Only a rethinking of citizenship as an active political identity can re-institute political agency and hence begin to provide alternative prescriptions to the political consensus of state-induced exclusion.

Author : M. Neocosmos
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 2869783078
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners. Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa written by M. Neocosmos and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Migrant labour was de-nationalised by the apartheid state, while African nationalism saw the same migrant labour as the foundation of that oppressive system. Only those who could show a family connection with the colonial and apartheid formation of South Africa could claim citizenship at liberation. Others were excluded and seen as unjustified claimants to national resources. Xenophobiaís conditions of existence, the book argues, are to be found in the politics of post-apartheid nationalism where state prescriptions founded on indigeneity have been allowed to dominate uncontested in conditions of an overwhelmingly passive conception of citizenship. The de-politicisation of an urban population, which had been able to assert its agency during the 1980s through a discourse of human rights in particular, contributed to this passivity. Such state liberal politics have remained largely unchallenged. As in other cases of post-colonial transition in Africa, the hegemony of xenophobic discourse, the book contends, is to be sought in the specific character of the state consensus.

Author : M. Neocosmos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From "foreign Natives" to "native Foreigners" written by M. Neocosmos and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Brenden W. Rensink
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781623496555
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native But Foreign written by Brenden W. Rensink and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword / by Sterling Evans -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction: Comparing the US-Canadian and US-Mexican borderlands and the transnational natives who crossed them -- Homelands, transnational worlds, labor, and border encounters -- Crees, Chippewas, and Yaquis in early transnational contexts -- Transnational encounters and evolving prejudice in Montana and Arizona, 1800-1900 -- Native peoples as "foreign" refugees and immigrants -- Yaqui refugees and American response, 1880s-1910s -- Cree refugees and American response, 1885-1888 -- Native struggles to make American homelands -- Crees in limbo and deportation, 1889-1900 -- Arizona Yaquimi and integration in the United States, 1900s-1950s -- Yaqui legality and belonging in Arizona, 1900-1950s -- Cree and Chippewa attempts at permanent Montana settlement, 1900-1908 -- New allies, new efforts, and final resolutions -- Cree and Chippewa legislative battles and victories, 1908-1916 -- Yaqui struggle for land and federal tribal recognition, 1962-1980

Author : Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807036293
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not "A Nation of Immigrants" written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today. She explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity—founded and built by immigrants—was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization, justice, reparations, and social equality. Moreover, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good—but inaccurate—story promotes a benign narrative of progress, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state, and imperialist since its inception. While some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States.

Author : Carlos Yescas Angeles Trujano
Publisher : Hammersmith Press
ISBN 13 : 9290684410
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Routes written by Carlos Yescas Angeles Trujano and published by Hammersmith Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As migration has not commonly been considered as part of the indigenous experience, the prevalent view of indigenous communities tends to portray them as static groups, deeply rooted in their territories and customs. Increasingly, however, indigenous peoples are leaving their long-held territories as part of the phenomenon of global migration beyond the customary seasonal and cultural movements of particular groups. Diverse examples of indigenous peoples' migration, its distinctive features and commonalities are highlighted throughout this report, and show that more research and data on this topic are necessary to better inform policies on migration and other phenomena that have an impact on indigenous people' lives.

Author : Kunal M. Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030218
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Foreigners written by Kunal M. Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects the history of immigration with histories of Native Americans, African Americans, women, the poor, Latino/a Americans and Asian Americans.

Author : Phaswane Mpe
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN 13 : 1770104054
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Our Hillbrow written by Phaswane Mpe and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome To Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow - microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring and painful in the changing South African psyche. Everything is there: the shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable costs, AIDS, xenophobia, suicide, the omnipotent violence that often cuts short the promise of young people, and the Africanist understanding of the life continuum that does not end with death but flows on into an ancestral realm. Infused with the rhythms of the inner city pulsebeat, this courageous novel is compelling in its honesty and its broad vision, which links Hillbrow, rural Tiragalong and Oxford. It spills out the guts of Hillbrow-living with the same energy and intimate knowledge ,with which the Drum writers wrote Sophiatown into being.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264307214
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Settling In 2018 Indicators of Immigrant Integration written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This joint publication by the OECD and the European Commission presents a comprehensive international comparison across all EU, OECD and G20 countries of the integration outcomes for immigrants and their children, through 25 indicators organised around three areas: labour market and skills ...

Author : Nandita Sharma
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147800245X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Rule written by Nandita Sharma and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Home Rule Nandita Sharma traces the historical formation and political separation of Natives and Migrants from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize the portrayal of Migrants as “colonial invaders.” The imperial-state category of Native, initially a mark of colonized status, has been revitalized in what Sharma terms the Postcolonial New World Order of nation-states. Under postcolonial rule, claims to autochthony—being the Native “people of a place”—are mobilized to define true national belonging. Consequently, Migrants—the quintessential “people out of place”—increasingly face exclusion, expulsion, or even extermination. This turn to autochthony has led to a hardening of nationalism(s). Criteria for political membership have shrunk, immigration controls have intensified, all while practices of expropriation and exploitation have expanded. Such politics exemplify the postcolonial politics of national sovereignty, a politics that Sharma sees as containing our dreams of decolonization. Home Rule rejects nationalisms and calls for the dissolution of the ruling categories of Native and Migrant so we can build a common, worldly place where our fundamental liberty to stay and move is realized.