IDENTITY AND BELONGING, the African others in South Africa

110pp., paperback, Langaa Research & Publishing Initiative Group, Bamenda, No Date

ISBN: 9789956553099

The authors discuss how the debate around and access to citizenship has evolved, how perceptions towards African migrants have changed, and the implications of these changes for migrants' sense of belonging in South Africa. 

“Migration and the politics of belonging has become buzzwords in the last quarter of the Twentieth and the first decades of Twenty-first Century. Countries and human beings, the world over are on the move. Government institutions in Africa, Europe and elsewhere are investing billions of their currencies to check migration flows. Those who navigate and crossed the international borders are scrutinized with derogatory terminologies. Taking South Africa as a case study and with the use of an interdisciplinary approach, the authors of this book have carved out yet another new fillip which adds to the budding scholarship. The authors have done justice to the topic. The inescapable attraction of this volume is the erudite verve/vitality, scintillating language and the engaging style which they employ to tell a complex story in a very simple way.” Associate Professor Walter Gam Nkwi, Institute of History, University of Leiden

Vivian Ojong is Full Professor in the Discipline of Anthropology, College of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Dean and Head of the School of Social Science at the same university.

Stephen Basure is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.