Interpreting conflict and integration through the reciprocity lens: mobility and settlement in a historical perspective on the Sierra Leonean coast
| Autor: | Anaïs Ménard |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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education.field_of_study
060101 anthropology Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration Population 0507 social and economic geography Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts 050701 cultural studies Sierra leone Politics Reciprocity (social psychology) Political economy Emic and etic 0601 history and archaeology Sociology Sociocultural evolution education Settlement (litigation) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Social Identities |
| Popis: | In recent years, Sierra Leone has witnessed intense population movements. During the civil war (1991–2002), many populations fled the fighting zones of the interior to take refuge on the coast. Since the conflict ended, new populations have reached the coastal area with the hope of accessing economic opportunities in the fishing business. Mobility, along with changing sociopolitical and economic conditions, has generated conflict between immigrants and Sherbro populations, who consider themselves autochthonous and deny migrants the freedom to access political and land rights. The paper argues that present dynamics of conflicts are rooted in long-term patterns of settlement and relationships of reciprocity between groups. Relations between migrants and local populations are grounded in a sociocultural idiom that implies the institutionalization of practices of reciprocity between local inhabitants (hosts) and later settlers (strangers). The host/stranger reciprocity system is an emic model of cultu... |
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