Imagined liberation : xenophobia, citizenship, and identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada
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Imagined liberation : xenophobia, citizenship, and identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada
（Politics, history, and social change）
Temple University Press, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-219) and index
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Description
On a spectrum of hostility towards migrants, South Africa ranks at the top, Germany in the middle and Canada at the bottom. South African xenophobic violence by impoverished slum dwellers is directed against fellow Africans. "Foreign" Africans are blamed for a high crime rate and most other maladies of an imagined liberation.
Why would a society that liberated itself in the name of human rights turn against people who escaped human rights violations or unlivable conditions at home? What happened to the expected African solidarity? Why do former victims become victimizers?
With porous borders, South Africa is incapable of upholding the blurred distinction between endangered refugees and economic migrants. Imagined Liberation asks what xenophobic societies can learn from other immigrant societies, such as Canada, that avoided the backlash against multiculturalism in Europe. Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley stress an innovative teaching of political literacy that makes citizens aware as to why they hate.
Table of Contents
ForewordAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations and AcronymsIntroductionPart I Integrating Difference1 Comparative Xenophobia2 South African Perspectives on Xenophobia3 Youth VoicesAim and Methodology ? An Ethnography of Township Schools ? How Students View Foreigners4 Falling from Grace Shifting Views on "Mandelaland" ? Reflections on Mandela ? Patriarchy, Sexual Violence, and HIV/AIDS ? Crime and Punishment ? Corruption and Consumption? Reracialization, Affirmative Action, and Black Economic Empowerment ? Descent into Zimbabwe? ? Popular Sentiment versus a Liberal ConstitutionPart II Variations of Migration Policies: Africa, Germany, and Canada5 Settler ColonialismTwo Types of Colonialism ? Founding Myths and Intergroup Attitudes ? Metropolitan/Settler Relations6 Xenophobia in GermanyThe Case of Roma/Sinti ? Muslims as Enemies ? Capitalist versus Communist Xenophobia ? Conclusion7 Multicultural Canada as an Alternative?Canadian Identities and Cultural Traditions ? How to Select Immigrants ? Opportunistic MulticulturalismPart III Political Literacy8 Xenophobia and Political Literacy Comparing Political Education in Multiethnic Societies ? Political Literacy as Strategy to Combat Xenophobia ? Nation, Nationalism, Ethnicity, Ethnocentrism, and Critical Patriotism ? Cosmopolitan Consciousness9 Theorizing XenophobiaConclusion: Alternatives and Global TrendsAppendicesAutobiography I: Navigating "Difference": Insiders, Outsiders, andContending Identities (Kogila Moodley) Autobiography II: Controversies: Peacemaking in Divided Societies(Heribert Adam) ReferencesIndex of Names
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