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By placing the demons within both migration and violent citizenship and in a longer historical perspective, this book succeeds in surpassing current interpretations of the 2008 violence against immigrants in the townships as just resulting from xenophobia. The authors masterfully show that the politics of statecraft - notably the African National Congress' (ANC) language of multicultu ral dominance - inspired a fatal depolitisation of difference. The very coherence of this collection offers a challenging analysis of struggle over belonging and denial of difference that is of much broader relevance than South Africa alone. - Peter Geschiere, Department of African Anthropology, University of Amsterdam - This book is critical of the policies, practices and politics of containment that continue to frame belonging in post-apartheid South Africa in an era of flexible mobility. The dominant logic of ever diminishing circles of inclusion informed by hierarchies of humanity within and between states is productive of the sort of narrow articulation of belonging that easily results in the rationalis ation of difference, demonisation, xenophobia and violence such as that of May 2008 - the key event that ties together this richly crafted, well documented and empiricall y grounded collection of essays. - Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town -

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Loren B. Landau is director of the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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