Transnational lived citizenship turns local: Covid-19 and Eritrean and Ethiopian diaspora in Nairobi
Transnational lived citizenship turns local: Covid-19 and Eritrean and Ethiopian diaspora in Nairobi
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跨国公民身份转变为本地公民身份：Covid-19 以及内罗毕的厄立特里亚和埃塞俄比亚侨民
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10.1111/glob.12359
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发表时间：
2022
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Müller T
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Müller T
本文分析了COVID - 19和肯尼亚政府的政策反应如何改变移民社区的跨国居住公民实践。它是根据对居住在内罗毕的厄立特里亚和埃塞俄比亚侨民的采访编写的。该文件展示了因疫情而出台的政策如何导致移民社区失去当地收入和汇款收入。然而，除了物质资源的损失之外，他们还受到使散居者能够生活的社会空间被消除的影响。这两种动态加剧了一种趋势，这种趋势可能在大流行之前就已经存在，即跨国居住公民的本地转变。通过关注生活经验以及在大流行期间如何对其进行重新评估，本文认为，跨国生活公民身份总是在不断变化，很容易被重新配置为更本地化的实践。跨国居住公民的概念被证明是分析移民生计和归属变化的有用视角。
This paper analyses how migrant community practices of transnational lived citizenship were altered by both, COVID‐19 and the policy response from the Kenyan government. It is based on interviews with members of the Eritrean and Ethiopian diaspora residing in Nairobi. The paper demonstrates how policies introduced because of the pandemic caused migrant communities to lose local and remittance income. More than the loss of material resources, however, they were impacted by the elimination of social spaces that enable diaspora lives. These two dynamics have intensified a trend that may have been present before the pandemic, a local turn of transnational lived citizenship. By focusing on lived experiences and how they have been re‐assessed during the pandemic, the paper argues that transnational lived citizenship is always in flux and can easily become reconfigured as more localized practices. The concept of transnational lived citizenship is demonstrated to be a useful lens for analysing shifting migrant livelihoods and belonging.