Race, railways, and the long-term legacy effects of concentration camps: evidence from South Africa.
Drawing upon detailed data on more than 120 concentration camps employed by the British in southern Africa during the Second Boer War (1899–1902), we examine the long-term legacies of these camps on trust and mobilisation in modern-day South Africa. Using geocoded Afrobarometer survey data, we asses...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 1046 - 1070 |
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