Oscillating Imaginaries: War, Peace, and the Precarious Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia

Autor:	Amanda Poole, Jennifer Ann Riggan
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	multiple nationalisms slippery citizenship vulnerability of refugees the precarity of peace the politics of war History of Africa DT1-3415 International relations JZ2-6530
Zdroj:	Modern Africa, Vol 10, Iss 1 (2022)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2336-3274 2570-7558
Popis:	While the 2018 peace declaration between Ethiopia and Eritrea was widely celebrated, Eritrean refugees expressed concern that peace would be destabilising, and their status in Ethiopia would change. Their concerns were shaped by a long history of oscillating imaginaries of how Eritrea “fits” with Ethiopia. Drawing from historical analysis and ethnographic fieldwork leading up to the peace agreement, we explore how these oscillating imaginaries create an uncomfortable and unstable situation for Eritreans in Ethiopia, rendering refugees vulnerable to unpredictable violence. Better understanding the way identity categories have been subject to constant slippage and have been instrumentalised by political elites could help to forge a more peaceful future among Ethiopia’s nationalities and between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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