Tribal Diasporas: Neopatrimonialism, Migration and the Civil War in Yemen 2011-2019.

也门持续的内战及其引发的安全和人道主义危机引起了全世界的关注。虽然有一种倾向是将冲突框定为胡塞叛乱分子与支离破碎的政府，或沙菲逊尼派与扎伊迪什叶派，但这种二元区分往往缺乏细微差别，忽视了将散居社区与持续冲突联系起来的身份政治，部落认同和经济福祉的复杂矩阵。本文旨在探讨三个不同的也门侨民社区在阿曼，卡塔尔和英国如何利用社会权力和政治影响力与亲友在一个国家的“状态”的想法仍然激烈的争议。它超越了传统的散居关系框架，这些框架往往假设存在一个法律一致的民族国家。相反，它开始研究如何部落的共同体，长期塑造了近40年来也门的权力和权力模式的新部落秩序，现在配置也门disporas在塑造和重塑也门有争议的政治分配中发挥的作用。

The on-going civil war in Yemen and the resulting security and humanitarian crises have attracted attention worldwide. While there is a tendency to frame the conflict as Houthi rebels vs. fragmented government, or Shafi Sunni vs. Zaydi Shia, such binary distinctions often lack nuance and ignore a complex matrix of identity politics, tribal allegiances and economic well-being that links diaspora communities to the ongoing conflict. This thesis sets out to explore how three distinct Yemeni diaspora communities in Oman, Qatar and the UK have leveraged social power and political influence with kith and kin in a country where the very idea of 'stateness' remains bitterly contested. It reaches beyond traditional frameworks of diaspora relations that often assume the existence of a legal-coherent nation-state. Rather, it sets out to examine how tribal fidelities, long shaped by neopatrimonial order that moulded patterns of engagment and power across Yemen for almost four decades, now configure the role that Yemeni disporas play in shaping and reshaping Yemen's contested political dispensation.