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Identity and Exclusion in Africa: An Examination of Autochthony and Xenophobia

Anderson, Timothy M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1367501355

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, Bachelor of Arts, Ohio University, Political Science.
In the 1990s, several African states undertook transitions towards economic liberalization and democratization. Not coincidentally, during the same period these states witnessed an upsurge in the political salience of belonging. Local communities and national governments alike increasingly have come to define inclusion along identity lines. In Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire, autochthony, literally translated `to be from the soil’ has become a powerful construct in terms of access to state resources, land rights, and citizenship rights. Similarly, in South Africa identities such as `bona-fide’ or `authentic’ township residents are employed to gain access to the spoils of the state, development projects, and land rights. Of course, such forms of belonging necessarily require determining who is to be excluded. With the construction of `autochthony’ and `authentic’ identities also comes the manufacturing of populations to be excluded, of `allogenes’ meaning `strangers’ and of `amagoduka’ meaning `those who must go home’. Individuals belonging to these exclude groups experience denial of citizenship rights and communal violence against them. This thesis exams the various ways in which institutions and elites construct belonging and exclusion in three contemporary African states.
Kendhammer Brandon, Dr. (Advisor)
African Studies; Political Science

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  • Anderson, T. M. (n.d.). Identity and Exclusion in Africa: An Examination of Autochthony and Xenophobia [Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1367501355

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  • Anderson, Timothy . Identity and Exclusion in Africa: An Examination of Autochthony and Xenophobia . Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1367501355.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Anderson, Timothy . "Identity and Exclusion in Africa: An Examination of Autochthony and Xenophobia ." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University. Accessed MAY 05, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1367501355

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