Robtel Neajai Pailey (London School of Economics and Political Scie

Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on rich oral histories from over two hundred interviews in West Africa, Europe, and North America, this engaging study of dual citizenship and its development implications seeks to understand the origins of contemporary struggles over citizenship in Liberia, Africa's first black republic.

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Produktdetails

• African Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 295
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781108812528
• ISBN-10: 110881252X
• Artikelnr.: 63627756

Autorenporträt

Robtel Neajai Pailey is Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). A Liberian academic, activist, and author, she was previously Mo Ibrahim Foundation PhD Scholar at SOAS, University of London, and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her core areas of research and policy expertise include the political economy of development, migration, race, citizenship, conflict, post-war recovery, and governance.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Methodological, Theoretical, and Biographical Reflections
2. The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia
3. Dual Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa
4. Give Me Your Land or I'll Shoot!
5. Between Rootedness and Rootlessness
6. The Dichotomy of Diasporic Developmentalism
Conclusion
Appendix I. A Proposed Act to Establish Dual Citizenship for Liberians by Birth and Background
Appendix II. Dual Citizen and Nationality Act of 2019
Appendix III. Proposition #1: To Amend Article 28 of the Constitution to Provide for the Inalienability of the Citizenship of Natural Born Citizens of Liberia (Dual Citizenship).