Chapter 1: Introduction. States make Others, Others make states -- Chapter 2: History-making as Othering: Perspectives on Zimbabwe’s Patriotic History from Matabeleland -- Chapter 3: Not White Enough, Not Biko Black Enough: The Othering of Coloured identity in the South African history classroom -- Chapter 4: The new vagabonds: Labor, mobility, and virtue in the making of “illegal” Others in Malta -- Chapter 5: The Other Mothers: Surrogacy or the making and unmaking of motherhood through the French state’s regulation of surrogacy -- Chapter 6: Gatekeeping the school against foreign Others: Three dimensions of institutional xenophobia at school in South Africa -- Chapter 7: Claiming status: How working State jobs mediates French Caribbean women’s experiences of othering -- Chapter 8: LGBTIQ Recognition in Asylum Policies: Vulnerability as a Disabling Entitlement -- Chapter 9: The Other(’s) language: Interpreters at the core of othering processes in the French asylum procedure.

This volume offers a unique interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on contemporary processes of othering by state institutions in relation to dynamics of racism, xenophobia, sexism, homo-transphobia, as well as ethnic- and class- based discriminations. It focuses on eight original case studies empirically grounded in various domains of the ‘social state’, in Southern African and Western European contexts: the education and health care systems, the regulation of work and of procreation rights, and institutions in charge of granting asylum. The authors provide key insights on how states produce Others, and on how othering contributes in turn to the process of state formation and the politicization of public action. Jeanne Bouyat is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa as well as Research Fellow at the Institute Convergences Migrations (ICM, CNRS) and the Center for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po, France. Amandine Le Bellec is Associate Researcher at Sciences Po Paris Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF), France. Lucas Puygrenier is Lecturer at CERAPS, University of Lille and Associate Researcher at CERI, Sciences Po, France.