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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2016): Africa Review of Books, Volume 12, n° 1, 2016

Issue Published : May 27, 2016

5 - The City as Borderland: Migrancy and Frontier Life in Johannesburg

https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v12i1.4992
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato

Corresponding Author(s) : Caroline Wanjiku Kihato

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Africa Review of Books, Vol. 12 No. 1 (2016): Africa Review of Books, Volume 12, n° 1, 2016
Article Published : January 12, 2016

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What does it mean to ‘belong’ in an African city? And what does it mean to be ‘different’? How have contemporary South African – and wider global – discourses framed belonging and difference; and how is this framing encountered and altered by those who are positioned as ‘outsider’? Finally, how are notions of legality constructed by the state, and how are they contested by ordinary people? These are key questions for our imaginaries of citizenship in postcolonial Africa, where we deal with the legacies of colonialism and modernity through our somewhat arbitrarily constructed state boundaries, and these are the key concerns around which Caroline Wanjiku Kihato’s ethnography of migrant women in Johannesburg centres. This book is about Johannesburg’s in-between spaces, and the agency of the people who inhabit them and who, in so doing, change the face of the city. In South Africa’s current context of eversurfacing xenophobic sentiment, it is a book that matters to notions of the ‘local’ versus the ‘foreign’, and to our notions of the legal versus the illegal life in a city.

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