Migration and National Identity in South Africa, 1860–2010

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audie Klotz
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Identity

scholarly journals Neo-Nationalism: Challenges for International Students

2016 ◽  
pp. 23-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny J Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Identity ◽  
International Students ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Global Competition

With increasing internationalization, national identity is being reintroduced and reconceptualized as forms of global competition. Neo-nationalism has the potential to negatively impact an international student’s experience, particularly in studying in one’s region.  This article highlights some challenges for regional students in South Korea and South Africa based on neo-nationalism.

Perspectives on National Identity: The Case of Emerging Intelligentsia in South Africa

Politikon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerrit Van der Waldt ◽  
Barend Prinsloo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Identity

Imagining Zimbabwe as home: ethnicity, violence and migration

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 616-639
Author(s):  
Duduzile S. Ndlovu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Migration Narratives ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Over Time

Abstract:Migration debates tend to focus on the numbers of people moving, whether they are economic migrants or asylum seekers, deserving or not of protection. This categorization usually rests on national identity, necessitating simplified one-dimensional representations. Ndlovu uses a case study of Zimbabwean migrants memorializing Gukurahundi in Johannesburg to highlight the ways in which migration narratives can be more complex and how they may shift over time. She presents Gukurahundi and the formation of the MDC in Zimbabwe, along with xenophobic violence in South Africa, as examples of the ways that the meanings of national and ethnic identities are contested by the migrants and influenced by political events across time and space.

Talking to ‘real’ South Africans: An Investigation of the Dilemmatic Nature of Nationalism

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Gray ◽  
Aislinn Delany ◽  
Kevin Durrheim
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Identity ◽  
South African ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
South Africans ◽  
National Accounting ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
English National Identity ◽  
The Way

This study is a discursive analysis of how a group of South Africans, who are seriously contemplating emigration, talk about South Africa and their place in it. The primary aim was to investigate the discursive construction of national categories, in order to highlight the way in which context informs both the content and nature of nationalist accounting. The talk of emigrating South Africans showed the existence of a fundamental dilemma of nationalism, as evidenced by the existence of coexisting, contradictory themes of nationalism and anti-nationalism across the interviews. Participants attempted to resolve this dilemma by identifying and disidentifying with a ‘South African’ national category at various points. In particular, three rhetorical strategies are discussed that allowed participants to distance themselves from the national category, that is, collective versus personal, splintering the nation and refuting the collective. These findings are compared to those of Billig's (1995) work on banal nationalism and Condor's (2000) study of English national identity in order to draw parallels, or point to differences, in the way that people orient to national categories in different settings. These findings highlight that generalist studies of discourse may not be relevant across all national contexts. Instead, it is argued that an understanding of South African national accounting will very much depend on an understanding of the contexts in which these accounts are realised.

National Identity and Xenophobia in Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain

Imbizo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Tembo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
New South ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
The Core

Sigmund Freud describes hate as an ego state that wishes to destroy the source of its unhappiness. Hatred is a form of animosity, frustration and hostility, often giving rise to a psychological descent into violence. This essay seeks to explore how Kopano Matlwa mediates notions of xenophobia in Period Pain to determine whether the narrative offers ways of reimagining relations between the “locals” and “outsiders” in South Africa. I am specifically interested in how Matlwa engages with the processes of othering in her third novel. I question how Matlwa employs language to “move people against other people.” I use the core concept of psychotraumatology to argue that the textures of hatred inscribed in Matlwa’s text are internalised echoes from apartheid culture and practices, which live out in the present social moment. Finally, I interrogate the extent to which Matlwa’s text might allow us to understand how she rewrites a new South Africa.

The Basotho Nation-State: What Legacy for the Future?

1981 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Weisfelder
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Weapon

Virtually all analyses of Lesotho's political framework have agreed that strong elements of national identity have neither forestalled domestic conflict nor served to promote a unified assault on awesome economic problems. Hence many writers imply that a major asset, rarely found in independent Africa, has been wasted.1 Roger Leys has perceptively applied dependency theories of a ‘labour reserve’ economy to Lesotho,2 and spends considerable effort on historical analysis aimed at demonstrating the duration and pervasiveness of this process of systematic underdevelopment. In his conclusion he suggests that ‘the long and courageous battle of the Basotho to assert their dignity and worth is in fact a resource and political weapon of incomparable significance in the long-term battle for the liberation of southern Africa.’ Leys infers that national and class identities are interrelated, and possibly reinforcing, when he says that ‘the history of the struggle of the Basotho people and the very degree of their integration into the black working class of South Africa is a formidable weapon.’3

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