Citizen and Pariah explores the fragility of law, pluralism and democracy in South Africa by investigating Somali informal shopkeepers' experiences of crime, justice and regulation in the country. Through a narrative account of their local experiences, the book sheds light on the legal and political predicaments they face.
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Verlagsort
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Höhe: 225 mm
Breite: 150 mm
Dicke: 15 mm
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978-1-77614-739-7 (9781776147397)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Vanya Gastrow is a lawyer and research consultant based in Cape Town, South Africa. She holds a PhD in migration studies and wrote this book as part of a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Arrival and Reception
Chapter 1 Introduction: law, justice and the pariah
Chapter 2 Getting started: a tale of three cities
Chapter 3 The unwelcome guest: flight and arrival in South Africa
Chapter 4 Crime and the fluid migrant
Chapter 5 A window on statistics opens up
Chapter 6 Fortress South Africa: informal justice and control
Chapter 7 Elusive justice and xenophobic crime
Chapter 8 An ordinary crime: the politics of denial
Part II: Regulation and Containment
Chapter 9 The Masiphumelele shop threat, 2006
Chapter 10 In the shadow of Masiphumelele
Chapter 11 The shifting problem and changing narratives
Chapter 12 Infestation and backlash: the Soweto cleansing of 2018
Chapter 13 When reasoning rings hollow
Chapter 14 The problem as legitimacy
Chapter 15 Regulating trade: informality and segregation by agreement
Chapter 16 When agreements fall apart
Chapter 17 Legal imaginaries: trading without a licence
Chapter 18 Turning to formality, 2012
Chapter 19 Formalising exclusion as the African way
Part III: The Politics of Pariahdom
Chapter 20 Pariahdom and bare life
Chapter 21 Pariah justice
Notes
Bibliography
Index
