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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.

人们日益认识到，世界的特点是高度流动。因此，民族国家内部的社会、政治和经济进程和结果受到移徙的重大影响，这使得仅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。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。在这种理解中，公民身份超越了法律的地位，而是侧重于具体的、往往是日常的行为。关注此类公民行为可以将公民身份作为与祖国、东道国或更广泛的跨国社会领域相关的实践进行分析，而这种实践往往是相互关联和重叠的。在这个项目中，我们带来了这些文学链的批判性分析，并提出了一个重新定义的跨国生活公民的概念，调查新兴的侨民中的公民身份的做法是如何构成政治归属-祖国，但也东道国和跨国社会领域。在进一步的步骤中，我们调查什么形式的政治参与可能会出现这种做法。为了解决文献中的上述理论和经验差距，我们选择了非洲之角作为案例研究区域，因为非洲之角是向外移民原籍地的典型例子。具体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细节，将使我们能够了解移民如何塑造公民身份的做法，政治归属和参与，这反过来又将有助于更广泛地讨论移民和跨国主义的模式。我们将研究公民身份的做法，作为政治归属的表达，以及他们如何转化为政治参与的那些谁从厄立特里亚和厄立特里亚移民到城市喀土穆，阿迪斯和内罗毕，所有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一种归属政治的分析，将使我们能够发展一种类型学，其范围从制度到非制度，从可见到隐秘。此外，我们在研究的实地工作部分收集的数据将使我们能够根据经验绘制何时，何地，为什么，如何以及由谁进行各种形式的跨国参与。在厄立特里亚首都阿斯马拉的一个额外的实地工作部分将进一步追溯这种参与的母国设置。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性贡献。首先，我们将重新理论化跨国公民实践作为一种超越民族国家但同时又与之紧密相连的政治归属的具体形式。其次，我们将提供关于具体公民实践和这些实践产生的政治归属形式的比较经验数据，因此对理论的贡献与实证调查密切相关。第三，我们将重点关注全球南方主要城市环境中的新兴散居群体，城市是重新配置公民身份做法的重要场所。第四，通过提供一个新兴的侨民如何行使跨国生活公民的透彻理解，我们将提供一个矛盾的忠诚，往往困扰移民生活的详细了解。最后，通过与当地研究人员和研究机构以及新兴的侨民社区合作，我们将在当地并与主要政治行为体共同制作和传播知识。