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Remittance Houses and Transnational Citizenship: Mapping Eritrea's Diaspora-State Relationships
Mit Rücküberweisungen gebaute Häuser und transnationale Staatsangehörigkeit: Beziehungen zwischen Staat und Diaspora am Beispiel Eritreas
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Abstract Can diaspora houses be used as a site to explore transnational citizenship? Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Eritrea, this article shows that different kinds of remittance houses reify different categories of transnational citizens with various sets of rights and duties. Drawing on studies on stat... view more
Can diaspora houses be used as a site to explore transnational citizenship? Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Eritrea, this article shows that different kinds of remittance houses reify different categories of transnational citizens with various sets of rights and duties. Drawing on studies on state-diaspora relations and remittance houses, I illustrate the key role that housing plays in the Eritrean state’s efforts to build a loyal diaspora. By looking at housing projects (state-led and individual) over the last thirty years, the article shows how different groups of emigrants - based on their relationship to the state of origin as well as their status in their country of residence - have been more or less able to realise their aspirations to build a house back home. By doing this, I show the importance of considering remittance houses as not only transnational cultural artefacts but also political claims to membership.... view less
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
Eritrea; remittance houses; transnational citizenship; diaspora; homeland politics; authoritarianism
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 59-80
Journal
Africa Spectrum, 56 (2021) 1
ISSN
1868-6869
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed