Audie Klotz, Ph.D.

aklotz@maxwell.syr.edu

Syracuse University

Country: United States (New York)

Research Interests

International Law & Organization

Immigration & Citizenship

Human Rights

Research Methods & Research Design

African Politics

Comparative Political Institutions

International Relations Theory

Qualitative Research Design

Race And Politics

Historical International Relations

Countries of Interest

South Africa

Canada

United Kingdom

Zimbabwe

Australia

Publications:

Books Written:

(2013) Migration and National Identity in South Africa, 1860-2010, Cambridge University Press

An extraordinary outbreak of xenophobic violence in May 2008 shocked South Africa, but hostility toward newcomers has a long history. Democratization has channeled such discontent into a non-racial nationalism that specifically targets foreign Africans as a threat to prosperity. Finding suitable governmental and societal responses requires a better understanding of the complex legacies of segregation that underpin current immigration policies and practices. Unfortunately, conventional wisdoms of path dependency promote excessive fatalism and ignore how much South Africa is a typical settler state. A century ago, its policy makers shared innovative ideas with Australia and Canada, and these peers, which now openly wrestle with their own racist past, merit renewed attention. As unpalatable as the comparison might be to contemporary advocates of multiculturalism, rethinking restrictions in South Africa can also offer lessons for reconciling competing claims of indigeneity through multiple levels of representation and rights.

(1995) Norms in International Relations: The Struggle against Apartheid, Cornell University Press

"Klotz offers a persuasive argument that in the South African case the moral principle of racial equality influenced policy on a different, often conflicting, level from economic and strategic factors."—Foreign Affairs