The perils of belonging
Subtitle: autochthony, citizenship, and exclusion in Africa and Europe
By: Peter Geschiere.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780226289649; 9780226289656
Subjects: Group identity -- Cameroon; Group identity -- Netherlands; Ethnicity -- Cameroon; Ethnicity -- Netherlands; Cosmopolitanism -- Cameroon; Cosmopolitanism -- Netherlands
Description: In this work, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.