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Ethnicity, Democracy and Citizenship in Africa
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Ethnicity, Democracy and Citizenship in Africa

Political Marginalisation of Kenya's Nubians

Ethnicity, Democracy and Citizenship in Africa

Political Marginalisation of Kenya's Nubians

BySamantha Balaton-Chrimes
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 9 March 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315580517
Pages 202 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315580517
SubjectsPolitics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Balaton-Chrimes, S. (2015). Ethnicity, Democracy and Citizenship in Africa. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315580517

As an ethnic minority the Nubians of Kenya are struggling for equal citizenship by asserting themselves as indigenous and autochthonous to Kibera, one of Nairobi’s most notorious slums. Having settled there after being brought by the British colonial authorities from Sudan as soldiers, this appears a peculiar claim to make. It is a claim that illuminates the hierarchical nature of Kenya’s ethnicised citizenship regime and the multi-faceted nature of citizenship itself. This book explores two kinds of citizenship deficits; those experienced by the Nubians in Kenya and, more centrally, those which represent the limits of citizenship theories. The author argues for an understanding of citizenship as made up of multiple component parts: status, rights and membership, which are often disaggregated through time, across geographic spaces and amongst different people. This departure from a unitary language of citizenship allows a novel analysis of the central role of ethnicity in the recognition of political membership and distribution of political goods in Kenya. Such an analysis generates important insights into the risks and possibilities of a relationship between ethnicity and democracy that is of broad, global relevance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |26 pages
Introduction
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chapter 1|36 pages
The Nubians and Kenya’s Ethnic History
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chapter 2|15 pages
ID Cards and the Limits of Citizenship as Status
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chapter 3|21 pages
Indigeneity and Collective Recognition
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chapter 4|30 pages
Autochthony and Belonging
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chapter 5|20 pages
Ethnicity and Democratic Citizenship
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