Transnational lived citizenship: Practices of citizenship as political belonging among emerging diasporas in the Horn of Africa

跨国生活公民身份：非洲之角新兴侨民中公民身份作为政治归属的实践

基本信息

批准号：
ES/S016589/1
负责人：
Tanja R. Mueller
金额：
$ 81.81万
依托单位：
University of Manchester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS016589%2F1
关键词：
Transnational lived citizenship Practices political

项目摘要

It is increasingly acknowledged that the world is characterised by a high degree of mobility. Subsequently, social, political and economic processes and outcomes within nation states are significantly impacted by migration, making it untenable to understand political processes solely by looking at actors within states. In this context, many homeland states have developed diaspora engagement strategies.In parallel, in the context of transnational movements, concepts of citizenship have expanded beyond the nation state, and citizenship is in various ways conceived of as a relational practice. In such an understanding, citizenship moves beyond legal status, but focuses on concrete, often everyday acts. Focusing on such acts of citizenship makes it possible to analyse citizenship as a practice related to homelands, hostlands or the wider transnational social field in often interconnected and overlapping ways. In this project we bring a critical analysis of these strands of literature together, and in proposing a re-defined concept of transnational lived citizenship investigate how practices of citizenship among emerging diasporas constitute political belonging - to the homeland but also the hostland and the transnational social field. In a further step, we investigate what forms of political engagement may emerge from such practices. In order to address the above theoretical and empirical gaps in the literature, we have chosen the Horn of Africa as a case study region, as the Horn is a prototypical example of an origin-area of out-migration. Focusing in concrete detail on emerging diasporas from Ethiopia and Eritrea who reside in key cities of the wider region will allow us to understand how migration shapes citizenship practices, political belonging and engagement, and this in turn will speak to the wider debates on patterns of migration and transnationalism.Through mapping, life history interviews, semi-structures interviews, focus groups, and participant observation we will examine citizenship practices as expressions of political belonging and how they translate into political engagement by those who have emigrated from Ethiopa and Eritrea to the cities Khartoum, Addis Ababa and Nairobi, all three important transit as well as more permanent residence spaces. Our analysis of citizenship practices as a politics of belonging will allow us to develop a typology which ranges from the institutional to the quotidian, and from the visible to the furtive. In addition, our data gathered during the fieldwork component of the research will allow us to empirically map when, where, why, how and by whom various forms of transnational engagements are made. An additional fieldwork component in the Eritrean capital Asmara will in addition trace such engagement back to a home country setting.In fulfilling the project-objectives, we will be able to make original contributions to both academic and non-academic debates. Firstly, we will re-theorise transnational citizenship practices as a specific form of political belonging going beyond the nation-state but at the same time intimately linked to it. Secondly, we will provide comparative empirical data on concrete citizenship practices and the forms of political belonging these generate, thus the contribution to theory is intimately linked with an empirical investigation. Thirdly, we will focus on emerging diasporas in key urban settings in the Global South, cities being important sites for a reconfiguration of citizenship practices. Fourthly, through providing a thorough understanding of how emerging diasporas exercise transnational lived citizenship, we will provide a detailed understanding of the ambivalent loyalties that often characterise migrant lives. And lastly, through collaborating with local researchers and research institutions, and emerging diaspora communities we will engage in co-production and dissemination of knowledge, locally and with key political actors.

越来越多地承认，世界的特征是高度流动性。随后，国家内部的社会，政治和经济进程和成果受到移民的重大影响，这使得仅通过查看各州的行为者而无法理解政治进程。在这种情况下，许多国土国家已经制定了侨民参与策略。在跨国运动的背景下，公民身份的概念已经超越了民族国家，而公民身份在各种方式上被认为是一种关系实践。为了理解，公民身份超出了法律地位，但专注于混凝土，通常是日常行为。专注于这种公民行为，可以通过通常相互联系和重叠的方式来分析与家乡，宿舍或更广泛的跨国社会领域有关的实践。在这个项目中，我们将这些文学链的批判性分析在一起，并在提出重新定义的跨国生活公民身份的概念时，调查了新兴侨民中公民身份的实践如何构成国土，但也属于宿舍和跨国社会领域。进一步的一步，我们研究了这种做法可能会出现哪种形式的政治参与。为了解决文献中上述理论和经验差距，我们选择了非洲之角作为一个案例研究区域，因为角是迁移原始地区的典型例子。居住在埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚的新兴散居杂志上的具体细节，他们居住在更广泛的地区的主要城市中，将使我们能够了解移民如何塑造公民的实践，政治归属和参与，而这反过来又将与更广泛的辩论有关，这将与更广泛的辩论有关迁移的模式和跨性别的群体，而跨国公司的参与群体，共同的访谈，集中于访谈，集中于访谈，集中于访谈，并参与访谈，并参与访谈，并参与访谈，并参与访谈，并参与访谈，并参与访谈，并参与访谈，并参与了访谈，并参与了访谈，并参与访谈，并探讨了参与者，群组的结构，群体的访问，群体态度，构建和参与式，并将从埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚移民到城市喀土穆，亚的斯亚贝巴和内罗毕的城市，这是对政治归属的表达以及他们如何转化为政治参与的，这三个重要的过境以及更永久的居住空间。我们对公民身份实践作为归属政治的分析将使我们能够开发一种类型学，范围从机构到Quotidian，从可见的到偷偷摸摸。此外，我们在研究的现场工作组成部分中收集的数据将使我们能够绘制何时，何地，为什么，如何以及由谁进行各种形式的跨国交战。厄立特里亚首都阿斯马拉（Asmara）的另一个现场工作组成部分还将追溯到本国的环境。要履行项目对象，我们将能够为学术和非学术辩论做出原始贡献。首先，我们将重新理论跨国公民身份的做法，这是一种特定的政治归属形式，但同时与之紧密相关。其次，我们将提供有关具体公民实践和政治归属形式的比较经验数据，因此对理论的贡献与经验研究密切相关。第三，我们将重点关注全球南部主要城市环境中新兴的侨民，城市是重新配置公民身份实践的重要地点。第四，通过对新兴的侨民如何行使跨国生活的公民身份，我们将对经常表征移民生活的矛盾忠诚度提供详细的理解。最后，通过与当地的研究人员和研究机构合作以及新兴的侨民社区，我们将在本地和关键的政治参与者进行联合制作和传播知识。