• Medientyp: Buch
  • Titel: Imagined liberation : xenophobia, citizenship, and identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada
  • Beteiligte: Adam, Heribert [VerfasserIn]; Moodley, Kogila [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Philadelphia [u.a.]: Temple Univ. Press [u.a.], 2015
  • Erschienen in: Politics History & Social Chan
  • Umfang: xxi, 224 Seiten
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 9781439911891; 9781439911907
  • Entstehung:
  • RVK-Notation: MS 3300 : Allgemeine Literatur
    LB 48000 : Darstellung ohne geografischen Bezug
  • Schlagwörter: Südafrika > Deutschland > Kanada > Fremdenfeindlichkeit > Multikulturelle Gesellschaft > Politische Bildung > Politische Identität > Kulturelle Identität
  • Beschreibung: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction; Part I. Integrating Difference; 1. Comparative Xenophobia; 2. South African Perspectives on Xenophobia; 3. Youth Voices; 4. Falling from Grace; Part II. Variations of Migration Policies: Africa, Germany, and Canada; 5. Settler Colonialism; 6. Xenophobia in Germany; 7. Multicultural Canada as an Alternative?; Part III. Political Literacy; 8. Xenophobia and Political Literacy; 9. Theorizing Xenophobia; Conclusion: Alternatives and Global Trends; Appendices

    Autobiography I: Navigating "Difference": Insiders, Outsiders, and Contending Identities (Kogila Moodley)Autobiography II : Controversies: Peacemaking in Divided Societies (Heribert Adam); References; Index of Names

    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, So
  • Anmerkungen: Literaturverz. S. [211] - 219

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