Informality and Informalization among Eritrean Refugees: Why Migration Does Not Provide a Lesson in Democracy

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Author(s): Magnus Treiber (Felsberg Institute, Germany)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 23
Source title: Handbook of Research on Transitional Justice and Peace Building in Turbulent Regions
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Fredy Cante (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia)and Hartmut Quehl (Felsberg Institute, Germany)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9675-4.ch008

Keywords: Ethics and Social Responsibility / Information Science Reference / Political Science / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Transnational migration has important implications on the respective country of departure and its political dynamics. This article addresses informal practices and processes of informalization during migration from dictatorially ruled Eritrea in North-East-Africa. On the base of dense ethnography among refugees and migrants in neighboring Ethiopia the article discusses migration's cultural and social effects and sheds a light on the potential role of migrants in Eritrea's expected political transition. It will be argued that refugees and migrants are unable to fully liberate themselves from Eritrea's authoritarian political culture while seeking prosperity, democracy and human rights elsewhere. Instead they blunder into informal practices such as deceit, exploitation and denial of solidarity, which inevitably backfire on social and political life.

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