Exile Identity, Agency and Belonging in South Africa

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This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa. Using “generation” as an analytical concept, it investigates the relational, temporal and embodied nature of their childhoods in terms of kinship relations, life cycle, cohort development and memory-making. It reveals how child agents exploited the liminal nature of exile to negotiate their sense of identity, home and belonging, while also struggling over their position and power in formal Politics and informal politics of the everyday. It also reflects upon their political consciousness, identity and sense of civic duty on return to post-apartheid South Africa, and how this has led to the emergence of the Masupatsela generational cohort concerned with driving social and political change in South Africa.   


This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa. Using “generation” as an analytical concept, it investigates the relational, temporal and embodied nature of their childhoods in terms of kinship relations, life cycle, cohort development and memory-making. It reveals how child agents exploited the liminal nature of exile to negotiate their sense of identity, home and belonging, while also struggling over their position and power in formal Politics and informal politics of the everyday. It also reflects upon their political consciousness, identity and sense of civic duty on return to post-apartheid South Africa, and how this has led to the emergence of the Masupatsela generational cohort concerned with driving social and political change in South Africa.   

Is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on Anthropology, Sociology, Development Studies, Historical Studies, Political Science, Gender Studies and Childhood Studies Adds value to the ongoing debate about 'liberation' and what it means to be 'South African' Makes a theoretical contribution to issues related to life course, childhood, gender and migration Will aid development practitioners seeking to protect and assist children confronted by violence and forced migration Challenges preconceived notions of victimhood, risk, resilience and trauma

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Zosa De Sas Kropiwnicki

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Kinship Relations Childhood Life Cycle Cohort Development Memory-making Political Consciousness Post-Apartheid Apartheid South Africa development theory

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