Transnational lived citizenship turns local: Covid-19 and Eritrean and Ethiopian diaspora in Nairobi
| dc.contributor.author | Müller, Tanja R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-03T20:35:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-03T20:35:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-01-08 | |
| dc.description | This article is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This paper came out of a project entitled: Transnational Lived Citizenship: Practices of Citizenship as political belonging among emerging diasporas in the Horn of Africa (2020-2023), funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, Grant number: ES/S016589/1. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Müller, T. R. (2023). Transnational lived citizenship turns local: Covid-19 and Eritrean and Ethiopian diaspora in Nairobi. Global Networks, 23, 106–119. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12359 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1471-0374 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12359 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42284 | |
| dc.publisher | Wiley | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Belonging | |
| dc.subject | Cosmopolitanism and identity | |
| dc.subject | Diaspora | |
| dc.subject | Horn of Africa | |
| dc.subject | Transnational social relations | |
| dc.subject | COVID-19 | |
| dc.title | Transnational lived citizenship turns local: Covid-19 and Eritrean and Ethiopian diaspora in Nairobi | |
| dc.type | Article |