 Citizenship in neo‐patrilineal states: gender and mobility in Southern AfricaA. P. Cheater and R. B. Gaidzanwa Journal of Southern African Studies, 1996, vol. 22, issue 2, 189-200 Abstract: >Following independence, many states in Southern Africa have modified their rules of access to citizenship, moving from the territorial model of ius soli (applied during the (late) colonial period by and to white settlers) to the more exclusive, descent‐based model of ius sanguinis, in a specifically patrilineal mode which explicitly rejects bilateral principles. Newly‐independent states in Southern Africa have stressed patrilineality as the basis of their new citizenship, even where, in colonial if not precolonial times, descent systems were recorded as showing only a weak commitment to patrilineality (e.g. the Shona of Zimbabwe), or were unambiguously bilateral (the Lozi of Zambia) or even matrilineal (many Zambian and Malawian ‘tribal’ categories). Many authors have already analysed the legal disabilities that female citizens suffer in their ordinary lives as a result of this state‐defined identity bias. This paper looks at the situation of women who marry across, and those who on informal trade move extensively across, state boundaries, and their position in relation to the new patri‐biased citizenship rules. Date: 1996 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:cjssxx:v:22:y:1996:i:2:p:189-200 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/03057079608708486 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Southern African Studies is currently edited by Ralph Smith More articles in Journal of Southern African Studies from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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