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Crisis, Identity and Migration in Post-Colonial Southern AfricaDecolonising Borders, Decriminalising Migration and Rethinking Citizenship

Crisis, Identity and Migration in Post-Colonial Southern Africa: Decolonising Borders,... [This chapter underscores how the crisis of ideas continues to make it difficult for African leaders to rethink and redefine postcolonial border regimes in such a way that they facilitate pan-Africanism. There is urgent need for a paradigm shift in understanding the purpose of borders, meaning of nation, notions of belonging and criteria of citizenship in postcolonial Africa. A crisis of ideas also informs the ironic situation of an Africa that is open to Europeans, Asians and North Americas whilst remaining closed to Africans. As tourists, investors and experts, Europeans and North Americans continue to be welcomed into Africa without visas whilst mobile black people are still perceived as aliens, undesirables, asylum seekers, refugees and carriers of pathologies such as crimes and disease subject to strict visa regimes. All this underscores the urgent necessity for a decolonial epistemological paradigm shift in African leaders’ thinking about borders, nation, state and belonging, which enables the emergence of Africanity as a transnational pan-African citizenship.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Crisis, Identity and Migration in Post-Colonial Southern AfricaDecolonising Borders, Decriminalising Migration and Rethinking Citizenship

Part of the Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development Book Series
Editors: Magidimisha, Hangwelani Hope; Khalema, Nene Ernest; Chipungu, Lovemore; Chirimambowa, Tamuka C.; Chimedza, Tinashe Lukas
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.
Crisis, Identity and Migration in Post-Colonial Southern Africa — Jul 26, 2017
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-59234-3
Pages
23 –37
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-59235-0_2
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[This chapter underscores how the crisis of ideas continues to make it difficult for African leaders to rethink and redefine postcolonial border regimes in such a way that they facilitate pan-Africanism. There is urgent need for a paradigm shift in understanding the purpose of borders, meaning of nation, notions of belonging and criteria of citizenship in postcolonial Africa. A crisis of ideas also informs the ironic situation of an Africa that is open to Europeans, Asians and North Americas whilst remaining closed to Africans. As tourists, investors and experts, Europeans and North Americans continue to be welcomed into Africa without visas whilst mobile black people are still perceived as aliens, undesirables, asylum seekers, refugees and carriers of pathologies such as crimes and disease subject to strict visa regimes. All this underscores the urgent necessity for a decolonial epistemological paradigm shift in African leaders’ thinking about borders, nation, state and belonging, which enables the emergence of Africanity as a transnational pan-African citizenship.]

Published: Jul 26, 2017

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