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Author Archives: trmdrag
Activist city-zenship: subversive interpretations of citizenship OR: Surviving as a woman in academia
The recent occassion of a joint inaugural professorial lecture, postponed for three years during Covid-19, made me reflect on how my life as a woman in academia became intertwined with my intellectual curiosity. In my political engagement long before academia, … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, activism, citizenship, city, migration, political, subversive
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Transnational lived citizenship and local struggles: Ethiopian migrant communities in Nairobi
Reflections from the second emerging findings workshop of the ESRC-funded project: Transnational lived citizenship: practices of citizenship as political belonging among emerging diasporas in the Horn of Africa, held in Nairobi, 22-23 February 2023. The Transnational Lived Citizenship project examines … Continue reading
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Tagged belonging, citizenship, Diaspora, Ethiopia, migration, Nairobi, political, transnationalism
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‘One nation in two countries’ and anything in between: Transnational lived citizenship and the complex answers to the question ‘where do I belong?’
Reflections from the first emerging findings workshop of the ESRC-funded project: Transnational lived citizenship: practices of citizenship as political belonging among emerging diasporas in the Horn of Africa, held in Khartoum, 9-10 November 2022. This blog was first published as … Continue reading
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Tagged belonging, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Khartoum, lived citizenship, South Sudan, Sudan, transnationalism
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Mobilisation for a foreign war: Eritrean troops will not decide the outcome of Ethiopia’s war with Tigray
Eritrea is often cast as the villain in the Horn of Africa. The recent mobilisation of Eritrean reservists to fight in the Ethiopian province of Tigray seems once more proof of its pariah status. But such a view is short-sighted … Continue reading
When COVID-19 hits transnational urban lives: localisation and new solidarities
Semhar (not her real name) lives in an urban neighbourhood in Nairobi. She had by local standards a quite comfortable life. She and her family, her partner and two children, are urban refugees from Ethiopia, with the right papers to … Continue reading
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Tagged citizenship, COVID-19, Diaspora, Eritrea, Ethiopia, localisation, solidarity, transnationalism
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Transnational lived citizenship and labour market integration: migration journeys in a globalised world
Transnational lived citizenship has gained prominence as a means to analyse mobility and foreground activist notions of citizenship over legal status. At the same time, lived citizenship and transnational movements are strongly intertwined with aspirations and belonging. Both of these … Continue reading
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Tagged Germany, integration, labour market, lived citizenship, migration, transnationalism
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Advancing horizontal solidarity or long-term profit? The messy politics behind the German business sector response to refugee integration
We have seen over the past decades how sectors that are not traditionally involved in development or humanitarian action have become key actors. These include for example celebrities of various kinds – think Band Aid and Live Aid – a … Continue reading
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Tagged business sector, Germany, humanitarianism, integration, Merkel, refugee, solidarity
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Travelling in the times of Corona: a personal story part two
The first part of those reflections were written in May 2020 and ended with the prophecy that this will probably have been my last journey for a while. And so it has proven to be. My first flight since that … Continue reading
“Samora’s children” – what we may learn from the celebration of (post-) socialist citizenship
In the autumn of 2014, Mano (not his real name) who is from and lives in Beira in Central Mozambique, had visitors from what was formerly East Germany. He took his visitors to the not far away Gorongosa National park. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bourdieu, citizenship, COVID-19, Mozambique, postsocialism, solidarity
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COVID-19 and fraying solidarities: reflections after a pandemic year
It is more than a year now that COVID-19 has shaped lives globally, even if to varying extents. I wrote my first blog in relation to COVID-19 in March 2020, on issues around solidarity and distancing. This was a time … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, COVAX, COVID-19, greed, social contract, solidarity
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