Selecting Immigrants - National Identity and South Africa's Immigration Policies, 1910-2005 (NEW)

Selecting Immigrants - National Identity and SouthAfrica's Immigration Policies, 1910-2005 (Paperback) Sally Peberdy(OUT OF PRINT NEW)

This book critically examines the relationship betweenchanges in South Africa's immigration policies, and shifts in the constructionof national identity by the South African state. Relating the history ofimmigration policies from 1910 to 2008, it explores the synergy between periodsof significant change in state discourses and policies of migration, and thosehistorical moments when South Africa was reinvented politically or was in theprocess of active nation building. It is in these periods that the relationshipbetween immigration, nationalism and national identity is most starklyrevealed.

In a readable, well-researched and interdisciplinarywork, Peberdy provides the first history of South Africa's immigrationlegislation. It will be of interest not only to academic readers but also thoseworking on immigration policy or interested in South African history andidentity.