Childhood in Exile: The Agency of Second-Generation Exiles Seeking Refuge from Apartheid

Authors

  • Zosa Olenka De Sas Kropiwnicki University of Johannesburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.38601

Keywords:

South Africa, apartheid, second-generation exiles, children, bounded agency, power, life history approach

Abstract

This paper is based on a retrospective study of children who were born in exile and/or spent their formative years in exile during apartheid. It is based on 21 in-depth interviews with men and women who spent their childhoods in an average of three different countries in North America, Western Europe, the Nordic region, Eastern Europe, West Africa, and East Africa as second-generation exiles during apartheid. This article will argue that the interplay of structure and agency in the lives of second-generation exiles in the process of migration and in the transitory spaces that they occupied should be explored. Second-generation exile children devised a range of strategies in order to challenge or cope with constantly shifting contexts characterized by inequalities, social exclusion, violence, and political uncertainty.

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Published

2014-05-06

How to Cite

De Sas Kropiwnicki, Z. O. (2014). Childhood in Exile: The Agency of Second-Generation Exiles Seeking Refuge from Apartheid. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 30(1), 35–46. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.38601

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