Page 10 - 2018 UCT Catalogue

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new titles
2017
232 pages
Soft cover
Print: 978 1 77582 209 7 Web pdf: 978 1 77582 228 8 World rights available R265.00
$31.50
£18.50
BISAC: LAW032000
BIC: LAQ
From Prohibited Immigrants to Citizens
Origins of citizenship and nationality in South Africa
J Klaaren
South Africa has witnessed several waves of horri c xenophobic attacks on its foreign citizens. There are many explanations for why the violence emerged, one of which relates to ideas about lawful citizenship and legal residence. This book explains the making of South African citizenship. It traces and provides the history of the mobility-related laws for the constituent South African populations in the early 1900s. Control over human mobility, while always understood to be crucial to apartheid through the pass laws, was equally — if not more — signi cant in the formation of South Africa and South African citizenship. Speci cally, the author argues that the regulation and administration of the Asian population is the direct predecessor of the current Department of Home A airs and provided the key platform for the elaboration and consolidation of the o cial vision of a uni ed (albeit structurally unequal) South African population.
This study goes beyond standard and competing accounts of white or black nationalism in South Africa: it intriguingly and uniquely argues that the legal culture of South African citizenship has its origins in the Asian population and its encounters with the emerging South African state.
Recommended for
Academics and scholars of Immigration Law and Citizenship, South African and African Studies, Migration Studies, and South African History.
About the author
Jonathan Klaaren is a Professor at the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, and Visiting Professor at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER). His research includes interdisciplinary work on law, culture and society. He is the Editor of African Law and of Law and Policy, a Member of the Immigration Advisory Board of South Africa, and an Advocate of the High Court.