Together apart: Migration, integration and spatialised identities in South African border villages
- 作者：Tara Polzer Ngwato ; Tara.polzer@wits.ac.za
- 关键词：Space ; Identity ; Refugee ; Integration ; South Africa
- 刊名：Geoforum
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：30_00167185
- 类别：soc
- 出版时间：May, 2012
- 卷：43
- 期：3
- 页码：561-572
- 文件大小：401 K
摘要
This article explores spatialised identity construction as part of the process of refugee and migrant integration. It uses an empirical case study - of villages in a rural border area of South Africa - to argue that identity groups can be constructed in relation to micro-spaces within a single village, refer to identity characteristics which are largely independent of cross-border mobility or territorial origin, and be negotiated through micro-mobilities within different segments of a 鈥榣ocal鈥?space. This stands in contrast to debates opposing sedentary 鈥榬oots鈥?or transnational or transient 鈥榬outes鈥?as identity forming spaces. Establishing the relevant spatial aspects of identity construction is an empirical matter, rather than an ideological one.