Citizen and Pariah : Somali Traders and the Regulation of Difference in South Africa / Vanya Gastrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gastrow, Vanya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Somalis--Crimes against--South Africa.

Somalis.

Somalis--South Africa--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Citizen and Pariah explores the fragility of law, pluralism and democracy in South Africa by investigating Somali informal shopkeepers' experiences of crime, justice and regulation in the country. Through a narrative account of their local experiences, the book sheds light on the legal and political predicaments they face.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: Arrival and Reception

1. Introduction: Law, Justice and the Pariah

2. Getting Started: A Tale of Three Cities

3. The Unwelcome Guest: Flight and Arrival in South Africa

4. Crime and the Fluid Migrant

5. A Window on Statistics Opens Up

6. Fortress South Africa: Informal Justice and Control

7. Elusive Justice and Xenophobic Crime

8. An Ordinary Crime: The Politics of Denial

Part II: Regulation and Containment

9. The Masiphumelele Shop Threat, 2006

10. In the Shadow of Masiphumelele

11. The Shifting Problem and Changing Narratives

12. Infestation and Backlash: The Soweto Cleansing of 2018

13. When Reasoning Rings Hollow

14. The Problem as Legitimacy

15. Regulating Trade: Informality and Segregation by Agreement

16. When Agreements Fall Apart

17. Legal Imaginaries: Trading without a Licence

18. Turning to Formality, 2012

19. Formalising Exclusion as the African Way

Part III: The Politics of Pariahdom

20. Pariahdom and Bare Life

21. Pariah Justice

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781776147427

1776147421

OCLC:

1302007061