Too Rich to Care? Southern African (Sadc) International Students Navigating Transnationalism and Class at South African Universities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4823686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Veera V Tagliabue (0009-0004-2168-9940, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-21 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057070.2022.2018837 |
| OpenAlex | W4205597610 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
The 2015-16 fallist student protests across South African university campuses highlighted the shortcomings of the post-apartheid political system in resolving persistent inequalities based on race, class and gender. However, the experiences of Southern African Development Community (SADC) international students at South African universities have received little attention. Using qualitative interviews with SADC students studying at Rhodes University in Makhanda during the campus protests, this article argues that the protests also created new forms of exclusion. The protest movements adopted identity politics that attacked all perceived forms of privilege, and SADC students on South African campuses felt excluded from the protests because they were described by the protesters as ‘too rich to care’. SADC students themselves rejected this assumption and instead emphasised their specific challenges regarding their status as immigrants, and the precariousness of the middle classes in southern Africa. By drawing together the concepts of migration, social class and higher education, this article addresses the important subject of transformation at South African universities through the intersections of transnationalism and class
Class (philosophy · Identity (music · Immigration · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing · Sociology · Transnationalism · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Governance and Development · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Law
Money from Nothing
Twitter activism and youth in South Africa
Documenting the Revolution
‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’
The impact on national identity of transnational relationships during international student mobility
Student identities, and researching these, in a newly ‘racially’ merged university in South Africa
Transnationalism
From apartheid to affirmative action
Beyond #FeesMustFall
RhodesMustFall
How we get free
Born (Un)free
Where are our heroes and ancestors? The spectre of Steve Biko’s ideas in Rhodes must fall and the transformation of South African Universities
Shifting race and class in student construction of identities at a South African university
The Evolution of Admissions and Retention Policies at an Historically White South African University
The Sublime Object of Blackness
Embodying Deficiency Through 'Affective Practice
The South African Student #Fallist Movements
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |