National Belonging and Social Integration

Multi-racial societies include citizens who embody ethnic loyalties that can challenge definitions of national identity. In African nations, it is individuals who do not fit within the black/white racial binary who most contest ideas of national belonging, particularly in a post-colonial context. In Mozambique, it is people of mixed-race and Indo-Mozambican (Mozambican residents of Indian subcontinent) origins who most clearly challenge national belonging. In times of uncertainty, these non-bina

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