From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners. Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa: Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa

Contents

Contents Preface to the First Edition .......................................................................................................ix Preface to the Second Edition ....................................................................................................xi CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Accounting for Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa.............1 Xenophobia: Absence of Theory, Absence of Politics ............................................1 Xenophobia: Bringing Theory and Politics Back In .................................................6 Citizenship and Political Identity: Four Theses ........................................................13 The Study of Xenophobia in South Africa .............................................................16 CHAPTER TWO The Apartheid State and Migration to South Africa: From Rural Migrant Labour to Urban Revolt .................................................................19 State and Citizenship in Southern Africa .................................................................20 The Apartheid State ......................................................................................................22 Apartheid, Migrant Labour, Citizenship and Resistance .......................................28 National Liberation and the Urban-Economic Understanding of Apartheid....39 Popular Struggles and National Citizenship in Countryside and Town .............42 Conclusions .....................................................................................................................58 CHAPTER THREE The Construction of a Post-apartheid Nationalist Discourse of Exclusion: Citizenship, State, National Identity and Xenophobia................61 Constructing the Nation and Moulding Citizenship from Above: Nationalism, Indigeneity and Exclusionary Legislation ..........................................62 Post-apartheid Nation-building Continued: Citizenship and the State Construction of Xenophobia.........................................85 Society: Xenophobic Attitudes, Human Rights and the Absence of Politics.....97 CHAPTER FOUR Conclusion: Theory and Political Agency.............................................................105 EPILOGUE May 2008 and the Politics of Fear .................................................................117 The Events of May 2008 .........................................................................................119 The Sociology of the Events and the Poverty of Explanation........................ 123 The Politics of Fear ....................................................................................................141 Concluding Remarks ..................................................................................................147 Notes .....................................................................................................................................151 Bibliography............................................................................................................................159 List of Interviews ..................................................................................................................171 ...