2013
DOI: 10.1080/14662043.2013.773692
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South Africa as dystopia: diaspora views from Canada

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“…McKenzie and Gressier (2016), referring to these migrants’ experience of Australia as an “Arcadian paradise,” claimed that they resettle easily because they discover a sense of congruence between their worldview and “the White nation fantasy predominating in Australia” (p. 3). This echoes Crush’s, 2013 conclusions that White South African migrants to Canada constitute a guilt-free, shameless, and victim-identified diaspora, relentlessly negative about their “dystopian” Black homeland. These portrayals are not wholly inaccurate and would certainly apply to some, even many, in this White migrant community.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 51%
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“…McKenzie and Gressier (2016), referring to these migrants’ experience of Australia as an “Arcadian paradise,” claimed that they resettle easily because they discover a sense of congruence between their worldview and “the White nation fantasy predominating in Australia” (p. 3). This echoes Crush’s, 2013 conclusions that White South African migrants to Canada constitute a guilt-free, shameless, and victim-identified diaspora, relentlessly negative about their “dystopian” Black homeland. These portrayals are not wholly inaccurate and would certainly apply to some, even many, in this White migrant community.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 51%
“…The contemporary research portrayals of these migrants are less than edifying. They emerge as self-pitying postapartheid “victims,” unapologetically reactionary and disparaging toward their homeland, indifferent to the social impact of their departure, and unreflectively engaged in self-seeking distortion of recent South African history and their own motives for leaving (Crush, 2013; Marchetti-Mercer, 2012; McKenzie & Gressier, 2016). While citing crime, violence, and deteriorating standards, their unarticulated reason for migrating is the pursuit of facilitating environments for their habitual Whiteliness (Taylor, 2004).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…'Barbarians' invokes images of a homogeneous collective of superhumans, hell bent on the destruction of society. Moreover, such a construction draws from a deep well of fear in which 'civilised' 'Europeans' are at the mercy of the marauding 'native', as has been seen in numerous other examples in the South African context (see, for example, Bornman, 2014;Crush, 2013;Evans, 2011). The need for the use of force when faced with such a collective becomes seen as both obvious and mandatory.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Jonathan Crush notes that this speaks to a disaffection that some South Africans feel in the post-apartheid era, stemming from the perception that the system is still not geared toward equal opportunity for all. 57 This means that engaging diasporas does not come without risk. Diaspora groups in Canada can hold nationalistic tendencies, maintain illicit networks, and be a crucial factor in the ongoing polarization of politics in their home country.…”
Section: The Trans-societal Pillar: the Bridge Between Canada And Africamentioning
confidence: 99%