New Refugees, Development-Forced Displacement, And Transnational Governance In Eritrea And Exile

This article explores the links between Eritrea's current refugee crisis, militarized state-led development policies, and the sending government's efforts to (re)capture migrants economically and politically through transnational governance and the exploitation of migrants' vulnerabil...

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Published in:Urban anthropology and studies of cultural systems and world economic development 2013-10, Vol.42 (3/4), p.377-410
Main Authors: Hepner, Tricia Redeker, Tecle, Samia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asylum
Asylum seekers
Conscription
Development Policy
Diasporas
Economic migration
Economic Policy
Eritrea
Governance
Government
Human trafficking
Migrants
Migration
Nationalism
Political migration
Refugees
Transnationalism
Urban anthropology
Value (Economics)
Vulnerability
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Summary:This article explores the links between Eritrea's current refugee crisis, militarized state-led development policies, and the sending government's efforts to (re)capture migrants economically and politically through transnational governance and the exploitation of migrants' vulnerabilities. We argue that the state's developmental approach has contributed to the mass exodus of young Eritreans who paradoxically become of greater economic and political value to the transnational government after migration. Our analysis highlights the intersections between the political and developmental dimensions of displacement and exposes how refugee/asylum flows from Eritrea severely confound conventional distinctions between political and economic migration. By adopting a transnational perspective combined with insights from development-forced displacement studies, we are able to address the ways that sending states like Eritrea pursue migrants for specific political and economic ends.
ISSN:0894-6019