About this Event
DOES DUAL CITIZENSHIP REPRODUCE INEQUALITIES? with Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey
Join us to hear Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey, Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy at LSE, discuss her recent book 'Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia'. This talk will be chaired by IIPP’s Dr Carolina Alves, followed by questions from the audience.
Robtel Neajai Pailey grapples with this question and more in her engaging monograph Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Hers is the first book to evaluate domestic and diasporic constructions and practices of Liberian citizenship across space and time and their myriad implications for development. In this seminar drawing on rich life histories from over two hundred in-depth interviews in West Africa, Europe, and North America, Pailey uses a contested dual citizenship bill, introduced in Liberia in 2008 but never passed, as an entry point to ask broader questions about how citizenship is differentiated by class, gender, race, ethnicity, etc, and whether dual citizenship actually reproduces inequalities. She develops a new model for conceptualising citizenship within the context of ‘crisis’-affected states while offering a compelling critique of the neoliberal framing of diasporas and donors as the panacea to post-war reconstruction.
- 50 in person tickets available
- Taking place at: 11 Montague Street, London, WC1B 5BP
- 17:00-18:30 (GMT) followed by a drinks reception
If you have any questions regarding the seminar, please get in touch: [email protected]!
View the full IIPP Research Seminar Series 2022-23 schedule here
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, 11 Montague Street, London, United Kingdom
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