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.

人们越来越认识到，世界的特点是高度流动性。随后，民族国家内部的社会、政治和经济进程及结果受到移民的显着影响，使得仅通过观察国家内部的行为体来理解政治进程是站不住脚的。在此背景下，许多祖国制定了侨民参与战略。与此同时，在跨国运动的背景下，公民身份的概念已经扩展到民族国家之外，公民身份以各种方式被视为一种关系实践。在这种理解下，公民身份超越了法律地位，而是关注具体的、通常是日常的行为。关注此类公民行为可以将公民身份分析为一种与祖国、东道国或更广泛的跨国社会领域相关的实践，其方式往往是相互关联和重叠的。在这个项目中，我们将对这些文献进行批判性分析，并提出重新定义的跨国公民身份概念，研究新兴侨民的公民身份实践如何构成政治归属——对祖国、东道国和跨国社会的归属。场地。下一步，我们调查这种做法可能会产生哪些形式的政治参与。为了解决文献中的上述理论和经验差距，我们选择非洲之角作为案例研究地区，因为非洲之角是外迁起源地区的典型例子。重点关注居住在更广泛地区主要城市的埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚新兴侨民的具体细节，将使我们能够了解移民如何影响公民实践、政治归属和参与，而这反过来又将引发关于移民模式的更广泛辩论通过绘图、生活史访谈、半结构访谈、焦点小组和参与观察，我们将研究作为政治归属表达的公民实践，以及它们如何转化为埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚移民的政治参与喀土穆、亚的斯亚贝巴和内罗毕这三个重要的交通城市以及更多的永久居住空间。我们将公民实践作为一种归属政治进行分析，这将使我们能够发展出一种从制度到日常、从可见到秘密的类型学。此外，我们在研究的实地工作期间收集的数据将使我们能够凭经验绘制各种形式的跨国交往的时间、地点、原因、方式和人员。厄立特里亚首都阿斯马拉的额外实地考察部分还将把这种参与追溯到祖国背景。在实现项目目标的过程中，我们将能够为学术和非学术辩论做出原创贡献。首先，我们将把跨国公民实践重新理论化为超越民族国家但同时与之密切相关的一种特定形式的政治归属。其次，我们将提供具体公民实践及其产生的政治归属形式的比较实证数据，因此对理论的贡献与实证调查密切相关。第三，我们将重点关注南半球主要城市环境中的新兴侨民，城市是公民实践重新配置的重要场所。第四，通过全面了解新兴侨民如何行使跨国公民身份，我们将详细了解移民生活中经常出现的矛盾忠诚。最后，通过与当地研究人员和研究机构以及新兴侨民社区合作，我们将在当地以及与主要政治参与者共同生产和传播知识。