Gatekeeping the School Against Foreign Others: Three Dimensions of Institutional Xenophobia at School in South Africa
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18 juin 2024
- handle: 10670/1.qrz197
- isbn: 978-3-031-59658-2
- hal: hal-04619320
- doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-59659-9_6
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Jeanne Bouyat, « Gatekeeping the School Against Foreign Others: Three Dimensions of Institutional Xenophobia at School in South Africa », Archive ouverte de Sciences Po (SPIRE), ID : 10.1007/978-3-031-59659-9_6
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The rejection of non-national Others by “welfare”—as opposed to “regalian”—institutions remains underexplored, despite the spread of border controls within national territories. Meanwhile, state and nation formation through schooling have hardly been explored from the perspective of othering directed at non-nationals. This chapter contributes to filling this double gap through researching what it refers to as the production of “institutional xenophobia” at school, with a focus on post-apartheid South Africa. This theorization builds on debates on “institutional racism”, while arguing for the need to differentiate between “racism” and “xenophobia” when studying state othering. Drawing on 13 months of ethnographic research in low-income schools in Johannesburg, in branches of the departments of Basic Education and of Home Affairs, and among activist organizations, it identifies three dimensions of institutional xenophobia at school that produce systemic exclusion and stigmatization of “foreign” Others with regard to accessing educational services, public job allocation, and pedagogy.