Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa

by Francis B. Nyamnjoh

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.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 25, 2006

About the author

Francis B. Nyamnjoh is Professor of anthropology at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and a prolific writer.
He won the Eko Prize for Literature, an Anglophone Cameroon prize in 2014 for "his lifetime contributions to creative writing and arts in Cameroon and beyond'.