At a time when immigration is at the forefront of international and South African debates, this book critically examines the relationship between changes in South Africa’s immigration policies, and shifts in the construction of national identity by the South African state. Relating the history of the immigration policies of the South African state between 1919 and 2008, Peberdy explores the synergy between periods of significant change in state discourses and policies of migration, and those historical moments when South Africa was reinvented politically or was in the process of active nation building. It is in these periods that the relationships between immigration, nationalism and national identity are most starkly revealed.
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Establishing the Territory
Chapter 1 Immigration, Nations and National Identity
Chapter 2 ‘A White Man’s Land’: Indian Immigration and the 1913 Immigrants Regulation Act
Chapter 3 Not White Like Us: Preserving ‘Original Stocks’ and the Exclusion of Jewish Immigrants
Chapter 4 Building an Unhyphenated Nation: British Immigration and Afrikaner Nationalism
Chapter 5 One (White) Nation, One Fatherland: Republicanism, Assisted Immigration and the Metaphysical Body
Chapter 6 Democratic South Africa: Inclusive Identities and Exclusive Immigration Policies
Conclusion: Nationalisms, National Identities and South Africa’s Immigration Policies
Notes to Chapters
Appendix 1: Total, immigration and emigration, and net gain/loss in migration, by sex, 1924-2004
Appendix 2: Immigration by country of previous permanent residence, birth and citizenship, 1924-2004
Bibliography
Index
Over de auteur
Sally Peberdy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town. She is the 2007 winner of the Wits University Reserach Committee Publication Award.
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