Strangers and Migrants in the Making of African Societies:A Conceptual and Historical Review
作者机构:Kellogg CollegeUniversity of Oxford62 Banbury RdOxford 0X2 6PNUK
出 版 物:《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》 (复旦人文社会科学论丛(英文版))
年 卷 期:2019年第12卷第1期
页 面:45-59页
基 金:African Centre for Migration & Society International Migration Institute Witwatersrand University Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung Multireligiöser und Multiethnischer Gesellschaften, MPIMMG
主 题:Strangers Migrants African state formation Expulsions African history
摘 要:At the extremes,there are two forms of engagement with strangers—the anthropophagic,where outsiders are swallowed and digested,and the anthropoemic,where aliens are discarded,institutionalized,incarcerated or *** this dyad as a conceptual tool,I examine seven patterns of inclusion/exclusion in African societies,covering early agricultural societies,the formation of kingdoms,societies formed by refugees,strangers in pre-colonial cities,migrants in colonial cities,ethnic expulsions as a result of modem state formation and migrants in contemporary global *** aim of the article,based on an extensive review of secondary literature,is to add historical,comparative and typological elements to an often inadequate sociological and anthropological sensibility concerning hosts and strangers.