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985858
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b740228
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Geschiere, Peter.
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The perils of belonging : : autochthony, citizenship, and exclusion in Africa and Europe /\ Peter Geschiere.
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Chicago, IL :: University of Chicago Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xi, 283 pages)
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0226289664
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: 1282239589
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: 9780226289663
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: 9781282239586
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: 9786612239588
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0226289648
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0226289656
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9780226289649
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9780226289656
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Autochthony, the Flip Side of Globalization? -- Cameroon: Autochthony, Democratization, and New Struggles over Citizenship -- Cameroon: Decentralization and Belonging -- African Trajectories -- Autochthony in Europe: The Dutch Turn -- Cameroon: Nation-Building and Autochthony as Processes of Subjectivation.
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Despite being told that we now live in a cosmopolitan world, more and more people have begun to assert their identities in ways that are deeply rooted in the local. These claims of autochthony-meaning "born from the soil"--Seek to establish an irrefutable, primordial right to belong and are often employed in politically charged attempts to exclude outsiders. In The Perils of Belonging, Peter Geschiere traces the concept of autochthony back to the classical period and incisively explores the idea in two very different contexts: Cameroon and the Netherlands. In both countries, the mome.
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Cosmopolitanism-- Cameroon.
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Cosmopolitanism-- Netherlands.
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Ethnicity-- Cameroon.
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Ethnicity-- Netherlands.
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Group identity-- Cameroon.
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Group identity-- Netherlands.
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Cosmopolitanism.
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Ethnicity.
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Ethnische Identität
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Ethnizität
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Ethnizität.
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Group identity.
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Gruppenidentität.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
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Weltbürgertum.
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Burgerschap.
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Etnische identiteit.
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Cameroon.
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Kameroen.
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Kamerun
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Kamerun.
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Nederland.
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Netherlands.
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Niederlande
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Niederlande.
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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| Dewey Classification
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305.80096711
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| LC Classification
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HM753.G47 2009eb
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LB 48000rvk
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LB 48170rvk
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LB 48529rvk
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LB 52529rvk
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