Citizenship Contestation and Reprisal Violence in sub-Saharan Africa

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Abstract: Why do governments choose to challenge the citizenship of ethnic minority groups? Why do some of these cases result in violence, but not others? My research shows that governments choose to challenge the citizenship when the exclusion of the group benefits the government's political project regardless of a democratic transition, and that affected groups will react with violence when there is an intersection of a political opening and a lack of credible exit options. I examined multiple case studies of ethnic minority groups bisected by international borders in sub-Saharan Africa: the Banyarwanda in Congo/Zaire, the Banyarwanda in Uganda, the Dioula in Côte d’Ivoire, the Bamileke in Cameroon, and black Africans in Mauritania. I analyzed key historical points of citizenship contestation and extension to understand the variation of event outcomes within these countries.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 2017

Author	WILLER, KIRSTEN
Primary advisor	WEINSTEIN, JEREMY

Subject	International Relations Program
Subject	Banyarwanda
Subject	citizenship
Subject	Zaire
Subject	Uganda
Subject	Dioula
Subject	Côte d'Ivoire
Subject	Bamileke
Subject	Cameroon
Subject	Mauritania
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/ck505vr3636

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Preferred Citation: Willer, Kirsten. “Citizenship Contestation and Reprisal Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Stanford University, 2017.

Stanford University, Program in International Relations, Honors Theses

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