The Nubians of Kenya: citizenship in the gaps and margins Balaton-Chrimes, Samantha 2016, The Nubians of Kenya: citizenship in the gaps and marginsCitizenship, belonging, and political community in Africa: dialogues between past and present, Ohio University Press, Athens, Oh., pp.149-178. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The Nubians of Kenya: citizenship in the gaps and margins Author(s) Balaton-Chrimes, Samantha Title of book Citizenship, belonging, and political community in Africa: dialogues between past and present Publication date 2016 Series Cambridge center of African studies Chapter number 7 Start page 149 End page 178 Total pages 30 Publisher Ohio University Press Place of Publication Athens, Oh. Keyword(s) citizenship history colonisation Kenya Nubian Summary This chapter explores the history of Nubian citizenship struggles in Kenya. Today's Kenyan Nubians are a marginalized minority, discriminated against in access to national identity cards, unrecognized (at least until 2009, and then only ambiguously) as a tribe of Kenya, and landless. Their story is one of displacement and uneasy settlement, of shifting and divided loyalties, and of sometimes-conflicting strategies aimed at constructing themselves as citizens. Perhaps the only consistency in the Nubians' story is their status as in-between or outside the categories that dictate, in formal and informal terms, belonging in the communities in which they found themselves. The various and often paradoxical ways in which the Nubians have successfully or unsuccessfully negotiated their status—as askaris, detribalized natives, and ultimately ethnic strangers—are emblematic of ways in which political membership has historically been negotiated in dialogue with, rather than purely determined by, colonial (and postcolonial) legal and political status. This case draws attention to the ways in which categories through which colonial authorities sought to govern the colonized were unable to absolutely capture the lived realities of identity, difference, mobility, settlement, rights claiming, and belonging. The chapter argues that Nubians actively contributed, albeit within significant constraints, to the construction of citizenship as a (limited) form of political membership and a license to make meaningful use of (some) rights and resources. ISBN 9780821422564 Language eng Field of Research 160602 Citizenship Socio Economic Objective 940201 Civics and Citizenship HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter ERA Research output type B Book chapter Copyright notice ©2016, Ohio University Press Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30085713 Document type: Book Chapter Collection: School of Humanities and Social Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Sat, 27 Aug 2016, 03:46:27 EST Sat, 27 Aug 2016, 05:01:08 EST Wed, 03 May 2017, 06:02:04 EST Tue, 20 Jun 2017, 16:01:02 EST Tue, 20 Jun 2017, 16:02:34 EST Tue, 20 Jun 2017, 16:03:33 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 7 Abstract Views, 3 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Sat, 27 Aug 2016, 03:46:27 EST

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