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The Meeting of Myths and Realities: the “Homecoming” of Second-Generation Exiles in Post-Apartheid South Africa Volume 30 Refuge Number 2 The Meeting of Myths and Realities: The “Homecoming” of Second-Generation Exiles in Post-Apartheid South Africa Zosa Olenka De Sas Kropiwnicki Abstract et des attentes déçues d’un retour à une Afrique du Sud This article is based on the findings of a qualitative study accueillante, libre, progressiste et unie politiquement et of second-generation exiles, who were born in exile and/ socialement par des valeurs liées à l’idéal de liberté. On or spent their formative years in exile during apartheid. y analyse également comment les expériences et les souve- It is based on in-depth interviews with forty-seven men nirs de ces anciens exilés marquent leur propre perception and women who spent their childhoods in North America, de leur contribution à la société post-apartheid, bien sou- Western Europe, Eastern Europe, West Africa, East Africa, vent pensée comme une contribution à la poursuite d’une and southern Africa as second-generation exiles dur- lutte pour la liberté. ing apartheid. This article will focus on the tensions that arose over the myths and realities of return, in what often Introduction became dashed expectations of returning to a welcoming, xile in this article has been defined as a “condition” free, and progressive post-apartheid South Africa, politic- or “process”1 that is both historically and context- ally and socially united around key liberation principles. ually specific, associated with forced separation, It will also discuss the manner in which the experience Ephysical “banishment,” and geographical dislocation com- and memory of exile influenced former second-generation pelled by a political regime.2 In the South African context, exiles’ perceptions of their roles as agents of change in post- exile has been associated with a strategic space character- apartheid South Africa—roles that were often adopted in ized by transnational political struggles against “norms of the name of an ongoing liberation struggle. a nation.”3 It is estimated that from the early 1960s, 40,000 to 60,000 South Africans were exiled, and that between Résumé 1990 and 1995 approximately 15,000 to 17,000 former exiles 4 Cet article présente les résultats d’une étude qualitative returned to South Africa. In the secondary literature, exile d’exilés de seconde génération qui sont nés et/ou ont passé and return has been described narrowly as an adult experi- leur jeunesse en exil pendant l’apartheid sud-africaine. ence with emphasis on the perceptions and memories of adults who waged political struggles against the apartheid Cette étude repose sur des entrevues approfondies menées state. In light of this dearth in information, this article will avec quarante-sept hommes et femmes qui ont grandi en discuss the unique experiences of children and youth who Amérique du Nord, en Europe de l’Ouest et de l’Est, et returned to post-apartheid South Africa. dans l’ouest, l’est et le sud de l’Afrique, en tant qu’exilés de On the basis of forty-seven life-history interviews with l’apartheid. Cet article examine plus précisément les ten- second-generation exiles who were born and/or spent their sions issues des mythes et des réalités du retour au pays, formative years in exile, it will be argued that although 79 Volume 30 Refuge Number 2 many children had little or no lived experience or memories needs of the present, thereby enabling exiles to find con- of South Africa, “myths of homecoming” were constructed tent for notions of “home” and “belonging,” often under under the influence of their parents’ narrated memories and the sway of dominant discourses and collective memorial- hopes of a “new” South Africa, their personal relationships ization efforts.15 “Home” can therefore be “made, re-made, with political stalwarts in exile, the international media’s imagined, remembered or desired.”16 These constructions portrayal of political developments within South Africa, and may relieve the pain of separation from a homeland but also dominant political discourses at the time. These myths were keep the “myth of return” alive.17 constructed around images of joyous interpersonal reunions, To conceptualize return for the exile, it is necessary to the realization of liberation principles, and the meaningful disengage notions of “homecoming” from a simplistic asso- democratization of political processes. These myths in turn ciation with location, space, and geography. Exiles do not heightened expectations of homecoming. Notwithstanding merely return to a geopolitical concept of “country of origin”; the legal-policy and service-provision measures in place they also return to imagined notions of home centred on for voluntary returnees (and their children), disillusion- remembered attachments and associations.18 Dichotomies ment was fuelled by the reality of unbridgeable schisms in that associate “return” with the security, stability, and familial relationships and broader socio-political networks; belonging of fixed geographical space19 fail to consider the inequitable racial, socio-economic, gendered, and geronto- rupture caused not only by the initial physical separation cratic hierarchies; and “false promises” pertaining to recog- from a “home” forced by a state or legal regime, but also the nition, compensation, and democratic governance. dislocation caused by separation from the state of exile in Despite these dashed expectations, it will be argued the name of “homecoming.”20 Black and Gent argue that “in that disappointment has not fuelled passivity among the practice, the experience of return may be more, rather than second-generation exiles in my study, many of whom have less, problematic than the experience of exile.”21 embraced agentic roles in their communities, precisely This dislocation is felt not only geographically but also because of the manner in which their childhoods were con- in socio-economic, psycho-social, and ideological terms. In structed in exile, with emphasis placed on obligations and the process of “homecoming,” “the nostalgia for a politics of responsibilities towards their parents, the liberation move- place is challenged.”22 It is therefore essential to understand ment, and the nation. The politicization of their childhoods the meaning of return for exiles relative to myths of return.23 has shaped the way that they view the post-apartheid pres- These myths centre not only on the likelihood of return, but ent and future. Hence, despite the rupture brought about by also on the timing and context to which an exile will return.24 the exile experience, continuity is evident in their sense of This can create unrealistic expectations for returning exiles, self, aspirations, and perceptions of “home.” The time when which are difficult to fulfil in the country of origin.25 notions of “home” were formed in the life cycle should, Parker26 and Warner27 note that returning to their country therefore, be considered when analyzing the experience of of origin does not necessarily mean going “home,” because exile and return for children and youth. exiles may have found other “homes,” fulfilled their aspira- tions elsewhere, and may not necessarily be able to pursue Conceptualizing Homecoming these aspirations in post-independence Africa. Not only has Said referred to the “perilous territory of not-belonging”5 the individual’s life and identity evolved in exile, but the state occupied by the exile caused by the “rupture of the true self and communities in the country of origin have changed as and its true home.”6 In this territory, notions of home are well.28 The influence of time should, therefore, be considered laden with a sense of love and loss for “one’s native place”7 in the rupture that may be experienced by returning exiles, and for the “space where affections centre,”8 a space from and the process of adaptation and integration, into what may which exiles have been forcibly separated. These affections have previously existed or have been remembered as home.29 support the idealization of the “homeland” and “myths of The past and future are important sources of reference in the return.”9 “Home” in these myths is often centred on loca- present. Muggeridge and Dona describe the first visit home tion, space, and geography,10 but may be linked to habitual as a “meeting between imagination and reality” 30 in which notions, traditions, and cultural practices,11 even when returning exiles are forced to confront their perceptions of exile locations are perpetually shifting.12 A shared history, home and “transition from belief to hope, from mytholo- relationships, and networks may also constitute notions of gizing the past to coming to terms with the present.”31 This home in transnational exile communities.13 Importantly for article focuses largely on this first meeting. this study, home may be linked to visions of a “triumphant It is also important to consider the life cycle and the ideology or a restored people.”14 In recollection and narra- time when “home” was defined and mythologies formed.32 tion, the past may be constructed in a way that serves the Cornish and colleagues note that “returning to a homeland 80 The Meeting of Myths and Realities can be as stressful as fleeing into exile. This may be espe- Specific to exiled children, the General Assembly on 4 cially true for second-generation refugees born in exile, December 1986 adopted the Resolution on Measures of who are likely to find ‘home’ a strange or even threaten- Assistance Provided to South African and Namibian Refugee ing place.”33 They are bearers of “postmemory”34 in that Women and Children, which called upon all governments, they have formed idealized impressions of “home” through intergovernmental organizations, and non-governmental their identification with their parents. Many cope with organizations to assist refugee children outside South these dashed expectations by identifying themselves with Africa and Namibia.44 No distinctions were made between other returnees, contributing to their isolation from local refugee children, unaccompanied children in exile, and the communities.35 children of political exiles in this resolution.
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