Diaspora at Home? : Wartime Mobilities in the Burkina Faso-Côte d'Ivoire Transnational Space

In the period 1999-2007, more than half a million Burkinabe returned to Burkina Faso due to the persecution of immigrant labourers in neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire. Ultranationalist debates about the criteria for Ivorian citizenship had intensified during the 1990s and led to the scapegoating of immigr...

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Main Author: Bjarnesen, Jesper
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi 2013
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-198563
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-554-8666-2