Liminal legality and the construction of belonging: aspirations of Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Khartoum.
In this paper, I analyse forms of belonging and un-belonging created in a situation of permanent liminal legality in one's place of residence. The concept of liminal legality zooms in on spaces of social existence in everyday lives in a context of legal ambiguity. The focus of the paper is Eritrean...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 179 - 197 |
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