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- Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa
- African Studies Series
- Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acronyms
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Book part
- References
- Index
- African Studies Series
3 - Dual Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 January 2021
- Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa
- African Studies Series
- Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acronyms
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Book part
- References
- Index
- African Studies Series
Summary
Chapter 3 argues that while globalised liberal citizenship norms—including universalised notions of citizenship as a human right—generated a politics of inclusion thus boosting dual citizenship advocacy for Liberia, the transmission in Africa of transnational belonging—dual citizenship diffusion in the continent—has had varied outcomes for the country. It also reveals that the bundle of visceral responses to dual citizenship as a proposed development intervention in Liberia signifies an interface wherein actors negotiate the discontinuities and continuities in their lived experiences of being Liberian, with homeland actors particularly resistant. Viewed as both promise and peril for diasporic and domestic actors, respectively, dual citizenship represents an instrumental tug-of-war in which homelanders prefer to protect their privileges while transnationals wish to expand their rights.
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- Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in AfricaThe Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia, pp. 84 - 109Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021