TY - JOUR AU - De Sas Kropiwnicki, Zosa Olenka PY - 2014/11/19 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Meeting of Myths and Realities: The “Homecoming” of Second-Generation Exiles in Post-Apartheid South Africa JF - Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees JA - Refuge VL - 30 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.25071/1920-7336.39621 UR - https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/39621 SP - 79-92 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: MinionPro;">This article is based on the findings of a qualitative study of second-generation exiles, who were born in exile and/or spent their formative years in exile during apartheid. It is based on in-depth interviews with forty-seven men and women who spent their childhoods in North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, West Africa, East Africa, and southern Africa as second-generation exiles during apartheid. This article will focus on the tensions that arose over the myths and realities of return, in what often became dashed expectations of returning to a welcoming, free, and progressive post-apartheid South Africa, politically and socially united around key liberation principles. It will also discuss the manner in which the experience and memory of exile influenced former second-generation exiles’ perceptions of their roles as agents of change in post- apartheid South Africa—roles that were often adopted in the name of an ongoing liberation struggle. </span></p></div></div></div> ER -