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 -- 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
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.
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