Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada by Adam, Heribert

Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781439911907)

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Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada by Adam, Heribert

Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada

$35.95
Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada by Adam, Heribert

Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada

$35.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Heribert Adam
ISBN-10: 1439911908
ISBN-13: 9781439911907
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2015
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
By Heribert Adam
By Heribert Adam
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Heribert Adam is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Educated at the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he has published extensively on comparative ethnic conflicts and peacemaking, particularly socio-political developments in South Africa. He was awarded the 1998 Konrad Adenauer Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the co-author of Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israelis and Palestinians (Temple).

Kogila Moodley is Professor Emerita, Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, where she was the first holder of the David Lam Chair. Raised in the Indian community of apartheid South Africa, her research is focused on critical multiculturalism, anti-racism education and citizenship. She has served as President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Racism, Nationalism, and Ethnic Relations. She is the co-author of Seeking Mandela.

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