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  • 3 - Dual Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa

  • Robtel Neajai Pailey, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book:
    Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa
    Published online:
    07 January 2021
    Print publication:
    07 January 2021, pp 84-109

  • 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.