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Becoming South African' : Examining the Experiences of Caribbean Immigrants Living in Pretoria
Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/76845 Becoming South African' : Examining the Experiences of Caribbean Immigrants Living in Pretoria Krige, Detlev marlon.gilbert@congressmail.com Gilbert, Gilbert Marlon UCTD cosmopolitanism transnationalism margins social fields middle-class Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2019. The problem this dissertation engages with is the role of state-defined pathways available for ‘legal’ Caribbean migrants to South Africa, to effectively become South African citizens through practices of assimilation; enabling them to claim citizenship, and thus belonging to a new national community. The concept of a singular, state-defined citizen, a conception that has dominated academic debates over the last hundreds of years, is today challenged by the activities and presence of migrants from everywhere in nearly every place. This new and contemporary dynamic is prompting scholars to conceptualise other images of belonging, images that transcend, move beyond, stretch and displace the centrality of national borders in defining citizenship. One view shifts the source of citizenship rights from the state to the individual, bringing to the fore a cosmopolitan or post-national citizenship. Conversations concerning the significance, or lack thereof, of the state in migration share a tendency to analyse migration from the macro-level that the state represents and interpret individual actions and outcomes from that point of view. In this dissertation I address the problem by investigating the lived experiences of immigrants, and analysing from the micro-level of individuals and their families, in order to understand their relationship to the meso- and macro-levels available within the wider society. In the process, I illuminate the pathways that are available to ‘legal’ Caribbean migrants as they seek to deepen their belonging to a new national community whilst retaining their connections to other national and transnational communities. Anthropology and Archaeology MSocSci Unrestricted 2020-11-04T15:10:04Z 2020-11-04T15:10:04Z 20/04/17 2019 Dissertation Gilbert, GM 2019, Becoming South African' : Examining the Experiences of Caribbean Immigrants Living in Pretoria, MSocSci Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76845> A2020 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76845 en © 2020 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD cosmopolitanism transnationalism margins social fields middle-class Becoming South African' : Examining the Experiences of Caribbean Immigrants Living in Pretoria |
| title | Becoming South African' : Examining the Experiences of Caribbean Immigrants Living in Pretoria |
| title_full | Becoming South African' : Examining the Experiences of Caribbean Immigrants Living in Pretoria |
| title_fullStr | Becoming South African' : Examining the Experiences of Caribbean Immigrants Living in Pretoria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Becoming South African' : Examining the Experiences of Caribbean Immigrants Living in Pretoria |
| title_short | Becoming South African' : Examining the Experiences of Caribbean Immigrants Living in Pretoria |
| title_sort | becoming south african examining the experiences of caribbean immigrants living in pretoria |
| topic | UCTD cosmopolitanism transnationalism margins social fields middle-class |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76845 |