Insiders and Outsiders Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa

This study of xenophobia and how it both exploits and excludes is an incisive commentary on a globalizing world and its consequences for ordinary people's lives. Using the examples of Sub-Saharan Africa's two most economically successful nations, it meticulously documents the fate of immigrants and the new politics of insiders and outsiders. As globalization becomes a palpable reality, citizenship, sociality and belonging are subjected to stresses to which few societies have devised a civil response beyond yet more controls.

Francis B. Nyamnjoh is associate professor and head of publications with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).

Introduction: Globalisation, Mobility, Citizenship and Xenophobia in Southern Africa * Mobility, Citizenship and Xenophobia in South Africa * Citizenship, Mobility and Xenophobia in Botswana * Gender, Domesticity, Mobility and Citizenship * Maids, Mobility and Citizenship in Botswana * Madams and Maids: Coping with Domination and Dehumanisation * Conclusion: Requiem for Bounded Citizenship * References

Introduction: Globalisation, Mobility, Citizenship and Xenophobia in Southern Africa * Mobility, Citizenship and Xenophobia in South Africa * Citizenship, Mobility and Xenophobia in Botswana * Gender, Domesticity, Mobility and Citizenship * Maids, Mobility and Citizenship in Botswana * Madams and Maids: Coping with Domination and Dehumanisation * Conclusion: Requiem for Bounded Citizenship * References