Negotiating the racial and ethnic boundaries of citizenship : white South African migrants in the UK and their sense of belonging

摘要: This PhD thesis is based on a qualitative interview study of white South Africans who have migrated to the UK in post-apartheid era, focusing their sense belonging and ‘racial’/ethnic boundary-processes society. With increasing African emigration has been Africans’ primary destination. Nevertheless, this migrant group received relatively little scholarly attention. It could seem as though considered less interesting for research purposes, typical status privileged migrants appears made them better perceived by British state apparatus public than many ‘non-white’ other disadvantaged (Crawford 2011). By investigating migrants’ belonging, complements traditional preoccupations with formal rights duties citizenship (e.g. Marshall 1998 [1963]). Moreover, analytical insights ‘intersectionality’ can rectify one-dimensional conceptualisations Kymlicka 1995) which run risk labelling all members an ethnic minority or equally without considering how social categories like gender class might position differently particular ‘social hierarchies’. ‘Intersectionality’ – typically applied reveal intersecting categorisations/oppressions affecting multiply groups such black women therefore be employed also when demonstrating may situated according ethnicity, class, gender, so on. Noticeably, varying forms inclusion exclusion negotiated simultaneously depending being underscored (Yuval-Davis 2011a). The psychosocial concerns even new context are evidenced ways negotiate away boundaries drawing more aspects order distinguish themselves from