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From ’Foreign Natives’ to ’Native Foreigners’ : Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa : Citizenship and Nationalism, Identity and Politics

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Michael Neocosmos
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.204

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Foreign Natives Native Foreigners Post-apartheid South Africa

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CODESRIA, 2006. - vii-150 p. (CODESRIA Monograph Series), ISBN : 2-86978-200-4

 

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Michael Neocosmos

Michael Neocosmos is a Marxist philosopher. He is an emeritus professor in humanities at Rhodes University, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute [1] and a fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape

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