Becoming South African' : Examining the Experiences of Caribbean Immigrants Living in Pretoria

dc.contributor.advisorKrige, Detlev
dc.contributor.emailmarlon.gilbert@congressmail.com
dc.contributor.postgraduateGilbert, Gilbert Marlon
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-04T15:10:04Z
dc.date.available2020-11-04T15:10:04Z
dc.date.created20/04/17
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionDissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.description.availabilityUnrestricted
dc.description.degreeMSocSci
dc.description.departmentAnthropology and Archaeology
dc.identifier.citationGilbert, 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>
dc.identifier.otherA2020
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/76845
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria
dc.rights© 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.
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.subjectcosmopolitanism
dc.subjecttransnationalism
dc.subjectmargins
dc.subjectsocial fields
dc.subjectmiddle-class
dc.titleBecoming South African' : Examining the Experiences of Caribbean Immigrants Living in Pretoria
dc.typeDissertation

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